{"id":3127,"date":"2025-01-20T08:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T08:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2025-01-11T16:44:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:44:59","slug":"another-short-story-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/another-short-story-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Short Story Sale!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3128\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSSN_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSSN_2.jpg 303w, https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSSN_2-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DSSN_2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/>I wrote \u201cThe People in the Neighborhood\u201d a 5000-word gentle mystery\/thriller short story, a couple of years ago specifically for an anthology of mysteries involving neighbors. It eventually was turned down for that one, but the editor took the time to tell me it was close but didn\u2019t quite fit in with the other stories he\u2019d accepted.<\/p>\n<p>When I saw a call for another anthology of mystery stories involving neighbors, I thought of this story and submitted it. This time it was accepted.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Detectives, Sleuths, and Nosy Neighbors: Dying for an Answer<\/em><\/strong> should be available in ebook sometime in late spring from <a href=\"https:\/\/inkdpub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inkd Publishing.<\/a>\u00a0I\u2019ve already sent back the first round of edits on the story.<\/p>\n<p>I believe there will be a Kickstarter for a print edition. Stay tuned for more info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote \u201cThe People in the Neighborhood\u201d a 5000-word gentle mystery\/thriller short story, a couple of years ago specifically for an anthology of mysteries involving neighbors. It eventually was turned down for that one, but the editor took the time <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/another-short-story-sale\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18,19,402,204],"tags":[406,404,407,403,405],"class_list":["post-3127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-mysteries","category-neighborhood-whimsy","category-short-stories","category-writing","tag-and-nosy-neighbors","tag-detectives","tag-dying-for-an-answer","tag-inkd-publishing","tag-sleuths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3129,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}