News from the writing front:


In honor of National Poetry Month, my poetry will be featured on the Gyroscope Review website [www.gyroscopereview.com] on Wednesday, April 23.


On March 4, I was one of 9 Tucson Sisters-in-Crime mystery writers featured on Big Blend Radio in the run-up to the 2024 Tucson Festival of Books. You can listen to a replay via these links:


- Direct podcast link on BlogTalkRadio.com: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/big-blend-radio/2021/12/23/tucson-sisters-in-crime-authors-and-writers-panel-discussion

- Direct podcast link to audio podcast on Spreaker.com: https://www.spreaker.com/user/big_blend_radio/tucson-sisters-crime-2021

- YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0V_VU5ZOQ9qLGNRAKbZCVQ

- Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/bigblendradiomags




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Artemesia Publishing will release MY BONNEY LIES UNDER, my first Keridec Rees Historical Mystery, in January/February 2025. The novel is set during an 1885 trans-Pacific voyage and in San Francisco. 


And six of my poems were published in the Fall 2023 issue of The Blue Guitar Magazine, a publication of the Arizona Consortium for the Arts. You can find the issue at https://www.theblueguitarmagazine.org/resources/Blue+Guitar+Fall+2023_ENJOY.pdf



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Donis Casey, a wonderful writer of historical mysteries, was kind enough to ask me to contribute an  essay to her November "Tell Me Your Story" blog. You can find "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Pair-a-Dice: A Geoscientist’s Curious Journey from Fieldwork to Crime Fiction" at: https://www.doniscasey.com/?p=2086



As my small contribution to 2023 National Poetry Month, I’m featured on Mark McLemore’s NPR program, Arizona Spotlight, reading one of the poems from DECIPHERING THE DESERT. My short segment in "What is the value of a quiet moment?" begins at @18:48.


[https://radio.azpm.org/p/radio-azspot-splash/2023/4/12/215585-what-is-the-value-of-a-quiet-moment/]


And yes, sharp-eyed readers and editors, the poem I read came from my latest poetry collection, not the announced Making Silent Stones Sing.


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My poetry chapbook, Making Silent Stones Sing, was released by Finishing Line Press in February, 2022. One of the poems, "No Roof but Sky: Roberts Mountains, Nevada," was a Finalist for the 2023 Spur Award in Poetry! The chapbook also was a Finalist in the 2022 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards-Poetry/AZ. And the icing on the cake: Women Writing the West selected Making Silent Stones Sing: poems as a Finalist for the 2023 WILLA Literary Award in Poetry.


You can find the book at Finishing Line Press and at online retailers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Susan Cummins Miller: News


Sunset, Santa Catalina Mountains, AZ     (S.C. Miller)


A full-length poetry collection, Deciphering the Desert: a book of poems, was released by Finishing Line Press in January, 2023. The book is available Amazon, Barnes&Noble, and at Finishing Line Press. The book may also be ordered from any brick-and-mortar store.



On the Fiction Front:


SO WEST: WRONG TURN, the Desert Sleuths Sisters in Crime anthology published last fall, contains one of my short stories: "The Zigzag Solution." TROUBLE IN TUCSON, the Tucson Sisters in Crime/Left Coast Crime anthology, includes a Frankie MacFarlane/Detective Toni Navarro short story, "112 in the Shade."  Signed copies will be available at the Tucson-SinC booth #430 at the Tucson Festival of Books.


I'm currently working on the seventh Frankie MacFarlane, Geolotist, mystery. Working title: RIGHT OF CAPTURE.


“Fade to Black,” a short story, appeared in the Sisters in Crime Desert Sleuths anthology SoWest: Love Kills (2021).


In an effort to make their books available to as many readers as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic, Texas Tech University Press released 95 TTUP titles as e-books. This included (at long last)  four of my Frankie MacFarlane titles. All books are priced at $9.95 and available on Kindle, Nook, or on your favorite platform.


Detailed synopses of my crime novels and nonfiction are included on separate Web pages. For more information please use the directory at top of the page.


For any of my readers who were wondering what I was doing before I launched the Frankie MacFarlane, Geologist, mystery series, you can check out the following US Geological Survey online publication (URL below):


Oberlindacher, H.P., Hovland, R.D., Miller, S.T. , Evans, J.G., and Miller, R.J., 2018, Geologic map of the Lower Valley quadrangle, Caribou County, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3215, 6 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000, https://doi.org/10.3133/sim3215.


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