Yesterday, the San Diego Book Review showcased a favorable review of the latest installment in the Lowestoft Chronicle Anthology Series, titled Unfamiliar Territory. This review comes from the reputable San Diego Book Review, which is licensed by the San Francisco Book Review—a publication that first launched in 2008 and is now part of the expanding City Book Review network.
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“Fans of edge-of-the-seat thrillers filled with exotic settings, non-stop action, and a cast of ambitious artistes battling fears, egos, insecurities, and daily disasters, will relish Nicholas Litchfield’s pulse-pounding novel, When The Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed,” writes Pam Norfolk in The Star, one of the most prominent regional newspapers in England. The Star, often known as the Sheffield Star, is a daily newspaper published in Sheffield, England, from Monday to Saturday each week. The first edition was published on 7 June 1887. Today it features a splendid review of When The Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed, a Lowestoft Chronicle Press title scheduled for release on April 1st.
Earlier this month, Stark House Press reissued two excellent novels by bestselling author Bruno Fischer (1908 – 1992). Fischer was an incredibly prolific writer of genre fiction during the Forties and Fifties when pulp magazines thrived.
This latest twofer includes the novels Fools Walk In, published in 1951, and So Wicked, My Love, from 1954. The essay “Fischer’s Foolish Teacher and the Wicked Redhead,” by the editor of Lowestoft Chronicle, introduces the collection.
At the end of October, the editor of Lowestoft Chronicle nominated numerous pieces for inclusion in the various Best American Series anthologies. Twenty of so pieces are published in each anthology, and hundreds of submissions are sent each year. Mercifully, the submission process is now an online procedure sparing our editor from the dreaded post office line that inevitably extends to the parking lot.
We always make time to submit entries to those notable annual short story awards. The process has started to shift from nominations sent by mail to the more satisfying email it in kind. Some still require a trip to the bank, though, and then the post office. This week, we made the following selections for The Best American Mystery and Suspense, part of The Best American Series, published annually by Mariner Books (an imprint of HarperCollins).
Lowestoft Chronicle Editor reviews Mark Jacobs’ Silent Light for the Colorado Review
Our latest anthology, A Place to Pause, was included in the May 15th volume of Kirkus Reviews magazine. This Kirkus edition (Volume XCII, No. 10, p. 155) is a special Summer Reads Issue.
As a service to those who appear in the Lowestoft Chronicle, we try to honor some of these exceptional writers by nominating work for the many prestigious awards that surface around this time of year. There is usually a specific limit to the number of works an editor is allowed to nominate. There is also a money and time requirement, dictating that magazine editors up and down America must sacrifice their afternoon at the bar lining up shots to stand in line at the post office and spend the bar tab mailing nominations to a PO Box. An editor’s sobriety is usually rewarded with stony silence from those with the keys to these tiny PO Boxes crammed with thousands of envelopes that if read and acknowledged would take years to get through. Once in a blue moon, a new face joins the usual suspects. That’s the hope, anyway.
Over the years, we’ve nominated work published in our magazine for various annual awards. The process has rarely been straightforward. Armies of micro mag editors up and down the country have grown accustomed to spending their marketing budgets making clumsy dissertations out of their digital journals in order to get the work evaluated by Top Table judges.
Mercifully, the vast majority of judges have stumbled across an incredible tool that streamlines the review process. It’s a free email service provided by Google. Entries get to them instantly and it even removes the threat of paper cuts. If only all judges would share this knowledge with others.
The Best American Series
New competitions emerge now and then, but every few years, a Best Of anthology editor closes the door on their PO Box and returns the key. The Best American Series, published annually by Mariner Books (an imprint of HarperCollins), is still going strong. In fact, the Best American Short Stories has lasted since 1915. Its five other series publications continue to accept submissions.
This month, Stark House Press reissued The Accused and The Snatch, Daniels’ famed third and fourth novels, as a double-novel collection. The volume includes the scholarly essay “The Solidly Considerable Talent of Harold R. Daniels,” penned by the editor of Lowestoft Chronicle.