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Shotgun Honey Established in 2011, Shotgun Honey is a small press publisher specializing in crime fiction. Crime. Hardboiled. Noir. Something like that. 700* words maximum.

Make it tight. Make it hum. Send submissions, queries, questions, and random thoughts on BBQ and/or rock'n'roll to:

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*If it's more and too damn good to pass up, we may give it a chance.

Book releases by Shotgun Honey
26/07/2024

Book releases by Shotgun Honey

25/07/2024

Thank you Best Thriller Books for the inclusion is this amazing list of thriller.

Love You Till Tuesday by M.E. Proctor
24/07/2024

Love You Till Tuesday by M.E. Proctor

The death of April Easton makes no sense. She was a jazz singer working the clubs. Maybe the recording contract she just signed would have been her breakthrough. It certainly wasn’t a motive for mu…

Book Release: Night Work by Pete Duval
23/07/2024

Book Release: Night Work by Pete Duval

Shotgun Honey is proud to publish Night Work by Pete Duval, an existential crime novella that is as much a mystery thriller as an examination of self and faith. What to Expect inside… Buzzard…

New Fiction: "The Hitwoman's Heart" by Christina Hoag
17/07/2024

New Fiction: "The Hitwoman's Heart" by Christina Hoag

Lila wasn’t going to kill the wrong man. She had scruples. And this guy just didn’t look like Arkady Volkov. She glanced for the hundredth time at the fuzzy picture on her phone, comparing it to th…

New Fiction: "Shiny, Happy, Smiley Faces" by Dave Kunz
12/07/2024

New Fiction: "Shiny, Happy, Smiley Faces" by Dave Kunz

I’d just put the kettle on when my phone pinged. A text from Hubs: Done in 5 then home. Oh, that’s sweet, I thought. Hubs being considerate. But then a string of smiley faces appeared, …

Book Release: JANEOLOGY by Karen Harrington
09/07/2024

Book Release: JANEOLOGY by Karen Harrington

Originally Published in 2008, we are happy to bring Janeology by Karen Harrington back to print. A well crafted legal thriller which broaches to the questions of Nurture vs. Nature. What to Expect …

New Fiction: "Playing Possum" by Craig E. Possum
04/07/2024

New Fiction: "Playing Possum" by Craig E. Possum

“This had better be damn good!” My eyes felt like burning coals in my skull. It was due to the case of Fireball I had sucked down last night. Possum had always been the dramatic type, and now he wa…

01/07/2024

New Fiction: "The Score" by Tobias McEvoy

New Fiction: "One Foot in Front of the Other" by John Teel
25/06/2024

New Fiction: "One Foot in Front of the Other" by John Teel

Check the gun. That’s the ritual. Check the magazine. Insert it back in. Pull the slide and check the chamber. Check the clock. 8:27. The night before I’m in the basement cleaning the gun aga…

20/06/2024

"Mob Mentality" by James Patrick Focarile

Happy Pub Day, Sean Jacques!https://shotgunhoney.com/announcements/news-announcements/book-release-doe-run-sean-jacques/...
18/06/2024

Happy Pub Day, Sean Jacques!

https://shotgunhoney.com/announcements/news-announcements/book-release-doe-run-sean-jacques/


- https://bookshop.org/p/books/doe-run-sean-jacques/21517524?ean=9781956957303

- https://amzn.to/3yQf2CE

- https://barnesandnoble.com/w/doe-run-sean-jacques/1145691659?ean=9781956957303

We are please to announce the release of the debut novel DOE RUN by Sean Jacques. What to Expect inside… Deer hunting season starts in three days, and nearly everyone in the Ozarks is prepari…

New Essay: Outer Dark and the Dismissing of Responsibility as a Purgatorial Plane by Brodie Lowe
13/06/2024

New Essay: Outer Dark and the Dismissing of Responsibility as a Purgatorial Plane by Brodie Lowe

Flannery O’Connor once said, “I write to discover what I am doing” (O’Connor, 1988). This is art. In No Man is an Island, Thomas Merton wrote, “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves a…

"All That Raylene Business" by C.W. Blackwell
12/06/2024

"All That Raylene Business" by C.W. Blackwell

Judy stood at the bay window with an old mystery novel she’d checked out from the library, watching as her husband Frank eased the Buick up the gravel driveway. The car radio was blaring a country …

New Fiction: "Danny" by Raymond J. Brash
06/06/2024

New Fiction: "Danny" by Raymond J. Brash

He said his name was Danny, but he sure didn’t look like a Danny. Trust me, I can tell when men lie. He took cash from my purse the first night I slept with him. I confronted him the next day, but …

New Fiction: "The Second Way" by Albert Tucher
05/06/2024

New Fiction: "The Second Way" by Albert Tucher

“So,” said Detective Ringnes, “he hired you and made his wife watch?” Diana could think of things she’d rather do than sit across from him in this barely furnished interview room, but at least he w…

Author POV: An Exorcism of Genre by Jordan Farmer
04/06/2024

Author POV: An Exorcism of Genre by Jordan Farmer

The summer before I entered fifth grade, my mother penned a handwritten note giving her permission for me to check-out adult books from the library. The public library was a recent addition to our …

New Fiction: "on a Roll" by Arendse Lund
03/06/2024

New Fiction: "on a Roll" by Arendse Lund

Benny loved a good Singles’ Night, perhaps more than any of the actual singles there. He’d wear a colourful tee, something that complemented his eyes; then he’d artfully tousle his hair until it lo…

New Fiction: "Goon" by Jeremy Grojean
28/05/2024

New Fiction: "Goon" by Jeremy Grojean

The guy in the car behind me laid on his horn. I could have made the turn, but the lady coming would have had to slow down a bit and I thought I’d let her coast through this small part of her day. …

Doe Run by Sean JacquesJune 2024
22/05/2024

Doe Run by Sean Jacques
June 2024

Book Release: The Mountain Mystic by Russell W. Johnson
21/05/2024

Book Release: The Mountain Mystic by Russell W. Johnson

We are please to announce the second book in The Mountaineer Mysteries, The Mountain Mystic by Russell W. Johnson. We hope you’ll enjoy it as much as you did The Moonshine Messiah. What to Ex…

New Fiction: "The Run" by Sam Wiebe
13/05/2024

New Fiction: "The Run" by Sam Wiebe

The move came after breakfast, while the prisoners were waiting for the Sheriff’s van to take them to court. Always a hold-up. If not the van then paperwork, or the prisoners themselves needing pis…

We want to thank the readers for nominating Holly West (Best Short Story, "Tell Me No Lies," SHP: Thicker Than Water), M...
09/05/2024

We want to thank the readers for nominating Holly West (Best Short Story, "Tell Me No Lies," SHP: Thicker Than Water), Meagan Smith Lucas (Best Collection, Here in the Dark), and Bobby Mathews (Best Paperback Original, Magic City Blues). We are proud and grateful.

New Fiction: "Semper Fidelis" by Joe Badalamente
07/05/2024

New Fiction: "Semper Fidelis" by Joe Badalamente

A rude medley of street sounds enters the diner with each customer. “Hey.” Black running shoes and faded jeans, topped by a windbreaker and baseball cap, the barest hint of what I know is a G***k p…

New Fiction: "Lucky" by Susan Kuchinskas
29/04/2024

New Fiction: "Lucky" by Susan Kuchinskas

The locals called it Su***de Bridge because of all the jumpers. He liked the Monongatawny Bridge anyway for its stone trusses and the old-growth pine forest on the riverbanks. This jumper was middl…

Book Release: Burning Down the House edited by Michel Lee Garrett and T. Fox Dunham
22/04/2024

Book Release: Burning Down the House edited by Michel Lee Garrett and T. Fox Dunham

Two years in the making, we are pleased to release Burning Down the House: Crime Fiction Incited by the Songs of the Talking Heads, a charity anthology to help fight climate change. Happy Earth Day…

The Mountain Mystic by Russell W. Johnson
17/04/2024

The Mountain Mystic by Russell W. Johnson

Since succeeding her dearly departed husband, Bill, to become Jasper County’s first female sheriff, Mary Beth Cain has closed more cases than any three of her male predecessors combined. But nobody…

New Fiction: "Higher Aspirations" by Bill Baber
16/04/2024

New Fiction: "Higher Aspirations" by Bill Baber

Smitty and me had a big score planned on Friday. We’re spending Wednesday afternoon nursing beers at The Seven Mile House on Old Bayshore. Just passing time, trying to keep from getting too edgy. S…

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