Today you can head over to Reckon Review and read Jessica's essay Roll With It: How Gaming Leveled Up My Writing, published in their monthly Wind & Root column! Reckon Review publishes everything from creative nonfiction to flash/micro and longer short stories. This was a fun essay to write and as a reader of Reckon for … Continue reading “Roll With It: How Gaming Leveled Up My Writing” At Reckon Review

Today is publication day for Jennifer’s newest story “A Complication,” published in Black Cat Weekly #258. In this watch-themed heist story, a retired safecracker must agree to one last job to save his brother from his debts. It was a really fun story to write, and nice to write about a place (Las Vegas) I’ve … Continue reading “A Complication” at Black Cat Weekly #258

We attended ShortCon 2026, the conference for short mystery fiction, last June. It was a long day of presentations and fascinating Q & A's with some of the top figures in the mystery community, and we learned a lot and won many, many new books to read! We were invited by Art Taylor, one of … Continue reading Jessica & Jennifer at The First Two Pages

Today is publication day for Jessica's flash fiction story "Life's a Peach" at Flash Fiction Magazine! In the story, a shady undertaker realizes their newest client may be using them to cover up a crime…which would be a bigger problem if the undertaker didn't make a habit of swindling their clients. Flash Fiction Magazine publishes … Continue reading “Life’s a Peach” at Flash Fiction Magazine

Today is publication day for Jessica's short story, "Home Sweet," published at Cold Caller Magazine! In the story, a family plans to loot the house of a deceased relative, but they find the house is a lot less unoccupied than they were led to believe. Cold Caller Magazine is a great emerging market for crime … Continue reading “Home Sweet” at Cold Caller Magazine & Interview

Today is publication day for Starlite Pulp Review #7! Jennifer joins 14 other writers in the newest collection from Starlite Pulp, the publishers and podcasters who are bringing pulp back (not that it ever left) and making it look so good. The book is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or direct from the publisher’s … Continue reading Starlite Pulp Review #7 LAUNCHES!

2025 marks our 6th year of success in the Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition. This year, two stories—"A Complication,” a watch-themed heist story, and “Everything Burns,” some pulpy horror-crime with arson—were awarded Honorable Mention in the genre category. We’re so happy to keep the streak alive! The full list of winners across all categories in … Continue reading Winter Round-Up — WD and Starlite Pulp 7 Preorder

In March, Jessica was lucky enough to be featured in Cold Caller Magazine's weekly roundup for her flash story, Lucky Number. Cold Caller is a brand-new magazine of crime fiction, book reviews, and interviews, and she did a more in-depth interview with them that was published this month. It goes over her newer work, her beginnings … Continue reading Interview at Cold Caller Magazine

Today is the long-awaited publication day for Jennifer’s short story Redemption Blues. Selected as the featured story in the May/June print edition of The Saturday Evening Post, Redemption Blues re-imagines the Garden of Gethsemane as a western, set in a Nevada silver-mining town at the end of the American Frontier. This story has been talked … Continue reading “Redemption Blues” in The Saturday Evening Post May/June 2025

The premier home of crime, noir, and hardboiled flash fiction just got its newest addition! Jessica's flash fiction story "Lucky Numbers" is now available to read online at Shotgun Honey. Additionally, you can read her contribution to Punk Noir and their February theme My Bloody Valentine. For the month of February they challenged authors to write … Continue reading Flash Fiction Double Feature: Shotgun Honey and Punk Noir