# My Story in Murder Ink 2 being released Feb 25 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Marketplace\ **Created:** [February 8, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-story-in-murder-ink-2-being-released-feb-25-2017/779293 "2017-02-08T01:45:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-story-in-murder-ink-2-being-released-feb-25-2017/779293/1 "2017-02-08T01:45:40Z")
My mystery, **Unexpected** , is being released this month in the anthology **Murder Ink 2** from Plaidswede Press. It’s their second collection of Murder Mysteries set in New England newsrooms. The launch is officially on February 25, 2017 at the Winter Meeting of the New England Newspaper and Press Association (NENPA). If you’re interested, you can order copies here: [http://www.nhbooksellers.com/\_p/prd1/4599476861/product/murder-ink-2](http://www.nhbooksellers.com/_p/prd1/4599476861/product/murder-ink-2) The site also contains the cover painting, which looks appropriately pulpy. I’ve also recently learned that another of my stories, **George Washington and the Dragon** , is finally to be released in the fantasy anthology **Live Free or Dragons** sometime around Labor Day, 2017. (About a year after its original scheduled release). It’s also from Plaidswede Press, and is part of their New Hampshire-themed anthology series. You can’t order it yet, and we don’t have a cover, but it’s good to know it’s coming. [http://www.nhbooksellers.com/](http://www.nhbooksellers.com/) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2017, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-story-in-murder-ink-2-being-released-feb-25-2017/779293/2 "2017-02-20T20:16:45Z")
One of the other authors had all the contributors to **Murder Ink 2** write up a bit about how their story came to be written. You can read it on his blogsite here: > **[BEHOLD: MURDER INK 2!](http://gregorylnorris.blogspot.com/2017/02/behold-murder-ink-2.html)** > > For fifteen years, I wrote sports/action & adventure/celebrity features for the late, great magazine,  Heartland USA . During that time, I... ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-story-in-murder-ink-2-being-released-feb-25-2017/779293/3 "2017-02-21T04:44:44Z")
Congrats Cal Very cool! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-story-in-murder-ink-2-being-released-feb-25-2017/779293/4 "2017-02-21T22:32:56Z")
Murder Ink! I see what you did there! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-story-in-murder-ink-2-being-released-feb-25-2017/779293/5 "2017-02-23T00:46:27Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Murder Ink! I see what you did there! Not me – they chose the name over a year ago. There were three books with the title “Murder Ink” and “Murderess Ink” back in the seventies. They were an interesting smorgasbord of mystery trivia and the like. The re-issued version of "Murder Ink’ differed so substantially from the original that it was almost a completely different book. All of them out of print now for ages, but available used online > **[Murder Ink: The Mystery Reader's Companion: Dilys Winn: 9780894800047:...](https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Ink-Mystery-Readers-Companion/dp/0894800043)** > > Murder Ink: The Mystery Reader's Companion \[Dilys Winn\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. Murder Ink: The Mystery Reader's Companion > **[Amazon.com: Murderess ink: The better half of the mystery: 9780517360576: Winn,...](https://www.amazon.com/Murderess-ink-better-half-mystery/dp/0517360578)** > > Amazon.com: Murderess ink: The better half of the mystery: 9780517360576: Winn, Dilys: Books > **[Murder Ink: Revived, Revised, Still Unrepentant Perpetrated by Dilys Winn: Winn,...](https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Ink-Revived-Unrepentant-Perpetrated/dp/0894807773)** > > Murder Ink: Revived, Revised, Still Unrepentant Perpetrated by Dilys Winn \[Winn, Dilys\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. Murder Ink: Revived, Revised, Still Unrepentant Perpetrated by Dilys Winn ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-story-in-murder-ink-2-being-released-feb-25-2017/779293/6 "2017-02-26T23:16:42Z")
We had the Launch Party yesterday, and it was a lot of fun. All the authors read 4 minute snippets from the anthology. Although I’ve had two books out before (and several stories, not to mention 38 years of nonfiction articles), this was my very first Book Launch event. I gotta get more of these. [http://www.nhbooksellers.com/?lightbox=image\_qpr](http://www.nhbooksellers.com/?lightbox=image_qpr) > **[Murder Ink 2 Released](https://srichardwilkcom.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/murder-ink-2-released/)** > > Murder Ink 2 has been released, with stories by 16 authors, including myself. It’s edited by Dan SzCzesny, and published by George Geers at Plaidswede Press of Concord, NH: That Murder Music … ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-story-in-murder-ink-2-being-released-feb-25-2017/779293/7 "2017-02-26T23:27:31Z")
Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-story-in-murder-ink-2-being-released-feb-25-2017/779293/8 "2017-02-27T05:05:08Z")
Congratulations, **CalMeacham**!