Deborah Elliott-Upton is taking a well-deserved sabbatical for the remainder of this month. Today, in her stead, we welcome back Louis Willis with some fascinating observations on the history of the mystery crime short story market. —JLW IN THE OLD DAYS by Louis Willis Last year, I bought Pulp Fictioneers: Adventures in The Storytelling Business, […]

Louis Willis is one of our scholarly contributors and reviewers. He’s also a writer and critic with a master’s degree in English literature from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. You may remember his favorite authors include William Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, Walter Mosley, Charlotte Carter, William Faulkner, Katherine Ann Porter, […]

William Dylan Powell, winner of the 2007 Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for Best First Short Story, is a Houston-based freelance writer. He is a member of the Houston Press Club, the American Marketing Association and the Texas Writer’s League. He is the author or co-author of a half-dozen books, including Houston Then and Now. […]