After the Fire, a New Anthology Inspired by Ray Bradbury Opens Call for Submissions - File 770

Can you fit a mystery in there?

If you're a writer and a Ray Bradbury fan, here's a post  Panzer found for you on the File 770 site.

 

While File 770 is not part of the submissions call, the post there does have all the rules and where to submit your submissions.

 

Panzer says, "Read all the rules before you submit."

 

Note: This is a long medium length post. Bring a glass of milk and two chocolate chip cookies (biscuits) to snack on.

 

To read the post tootle over to  Ray Bradbury

2026 Derringer Award Finalists - Short Mystery Fictioin Society Blog

Recognize anyone on the lists?

At his stop at the Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog Panzer discovered a post with the newly announced finalists for the SMFS Derringer Awards.

 

There are five categories for the Derringers. The categories are Best Flash Fiction, Best Short Story, Best Long Story, Best Novelette and Best Anthology.

 

The winners will be announced May 1.

 

To read the list of the finalists tootle over to 2026 Derringers Finalists 

 

 

11 Reasons Why You Should Submit Your Short Stories to Anthologies - Fiction University

Today when Panzer was washing the windshield of the Panzermobile he found something stuck under the wiper blade. Flattening it out, our fastidious kitty boy discovered it was a post from the Fiction University site about short stories.

 

In her post Rayne Hall lists 11 reasons why an indie author should submit their short stories to anthologies. The reasons are based on the assumption your story is accepted for inclusion in the anthology. These reasons include: you earn validation as a writer, you earn royalties, you earn name recognition and eight more reasons.

 

Had you heard of them?

Panzer says, "This little kitty never heard about cat anthologies before."

 

Note: This is a short-medium length post. Bring a cup of tea and a muffin for today's reading selection.

 

To read the post tootle over to Short Story Anthologies

Top 100 At Amazon

My bad boy did it again. He's back in the top 100 at Amazon!

It's hard to read below, but he's #80 in Mystery - Anthologies and #89 in Mystery - Collections & Anthologies.

Happy Cat Dance!

Happy Cat Dance!

Woo hoo!

My bad boy is back in the Top 100!
#38 in Mystery-Anthologies
#42 in Mystery-Collections & Anthologies!

 
Happy Cat Dance! Happy Cat Dance!

Thank you all!

Back in Amazon Top 100

Panzer is doing the Happy Cat dance again. We know the screen shot is hard to read below, but he's back in the top 100 for Mystery Anthologies! And can you see it's 4.3 stars! (Not a lot of reviews, but that's one 5 star and two 4 stars.)

You see, Amazon updates their numbers ever two hours. Now Panzer can't keep checking and checking and checking his numbers every couple of hours. But he does know he's been bouncing in and out of the Top 100 for the past three weeks.

So for right now it's:  Happy Cat! Happy Cat!