Time to spill the tea! Meet the cover of my debut novel-length work, The Bush Tea Murder, coming from Crooked Lane Books in April 2026! Want to win one of 5 physical galleys of the book? Enter at Goodreads between now and 11/16: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...

I’ve been MIA for a while, but I’m ready to spill some big news this week! Stay tuned…😉🤫✍🏾

Happy VI Emancipation Day! 🇻🇮✊🏾

If you’re a Macavity voter and enjoy your (fictional!) murders with a side of 🇻🇮soca and mas, I’d be honored if you’d consider “Murder Can’t Stop de Carnival” (EQMM Jul/Aug ‘24)! Read here free for a limited time: ashleyruthbernier.com/blank

@rhppress.bsky.social presents: Writing Short Crime Fiction That Stands Out. Join instructor @steveweddle.bsky.social (Author of THE COUNTY LINE) for an online course May 10-24. Learn how to craft stories that grab editors and readers alike. More info: bit.ly/3Y7LTwy

You’re going to want to get your hands on this one early—everything he writes is 🔥🔥🔥🤩🤩🤩

Here we go! Details below 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

I've got a Stack. How about you? victordeanda.substack.com/p/how-you-li...

Submissions opportunity 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 …important topic AND an awesome guest editor? Check this OUT!

🤩🤩 What a great day when this awesome collection is out in the world! Yes, my story “A Li’l Something Extra” is in here, but there are 11 other hard hitting pieces included, and you’ll enjoy them all!

NEW BOOK TIME -- Our print edition of 2024's Stone's Throw Stories is now available, wherever you purchase your books. Featuring a year's worth of the hardest hitting noir around. www.rockandahardplacemag.com/stones-throw...

I enjoyed chatting with my fellow newbies and the OG editors 😎 at @rhppress.bsky.social earlier this week! Listen in for a great conversation👇🏾

A ❄️🌨️SNOW DAY❄️🌨️ means a WRITING day! …after playing in the snow, that is. ☃️

Final lines. I think they’re just as important as beginnings. Drop a comment, #authorfriends… what do you think you do really well?

If you’re heading to Malice Domestic, I’d be honored if you’d consider my short story, Afterglow, on your Agatha ballots! 🇻🇮🌅🤫🍹

Our latest Stone’s Throw story is up and available, and you don’t want to miss it. This one mixes classic noir tropes with a very modern character out to get hers. Read “Tempting Destinee” by Lisa Robertson, now, for free, at Stone’s Throw! www.rockandahardplacemag.com/stones-throw...

A new year brings new opportunities!

I doubled my author bookshelf this year! 🤩 Here’s to lots more great stories and mayhem on the page in 2025. 🥂

Just dropping this li’l reminder right here…

They sure do…I’ve got a story in this one about a quintessential part of every Virgin Islands 🇻🇮 holiday—maubi 🍺!!! Oh, and blackmail, too…

Yesssss, @stschorey.bsky.social !!!! Great story, fun Christmas noir, and awesome writing!

It’s the first mystery-related organization I joined when I decided to take my writing more seriously, and it continues to bring so much value to my writing life!

No joke—I’m thrilled that my story, “Six-Armed Robbery”, will appear in Malice Domestic’s conference anthology, “Mystery Most Humorous”, in 2025!!!🤩🤩🤩🇻🇮🕷️🪲🪳🦗

You had me at “micro Christmas crime story”!

If you’re enthusiastic about short mystery and crime fiction, this is the community to join!

Wow! Yes, ladies!!!🙌🏾

Since we’re approaching the end of 2024, what writing goal are you most proud of accomplishing this year? I’ll start—it was having a story accepted by a conference anthology! (“Afterglow”, Malice Domestic’s Mystery Most Devious) 🌅🎤🍸🇻🇮 #writingcommunity #writinggoals #shortfiction

Between teaching first grade, momming super hard, and writing short mystery fiction, I finally got myself here on Bluesky! Excited to find my people here! 🫶🏾🤩🇻🇮👩🏾‍💻👩🏾‍🏫