All 52 stories from the Plan B anthologies collected in this handsome 540 page anthology. Just $24.99 from Amazon and coming soon to your favourite online bookseller.

Featuring stories by:

• Patti Abbott
• Ed Ahern
• Nick Andreychuk
• Tom Barlow
• Aislinn Batstone
• Doug Black
• Craig Faustus Buck
• Frank Byrns
• Gary Cahill
• Sally Carpenter
• Sarah M. Chen
• Ian Creasey
• Peter DiChellis
• Jim Downer
• Kevin R. Doyle
• John H. Dromey
• MJ Gardner
• Robert Guffey
• Michael Haynes
• Martin Roy Hill
• Adam Howe
• Ahmed A. Khan
• BV Lawson
• Mary Ann B. Lee
• Laird Long
• Josh MacLeod
• S.R. Mastrantone
• Michael McGlade
• Tekla Dennison Miller
• Mike Miner
• Kou K.

I’ve always been a voracious reader. When I was a kid, my parents had to ask the local library for a special dispensation for me on the number of books I could check out at a time. We often left with two stuffed bags just for me.

To augment library offerings, we also had subscriptions to Ellery Queen’s and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazines. My mom was the mystery buff in the house, but I’d read anything and started in on those when I was a tween. Pretty soon I was reading my mom’s leftovers as I’d been bitten by the mystery bug.… Read the rest

Plan B story “The Uninvited Spook” by C. D. Reimer is now available in audio on the fantastic podcast Toasted Cake.… Read the rest

Today we launched a crowdfunding campaign for Year Three of Plan B Magazine. We are aiming to raise $3000, to double our pay rate and bring you another year of great Plan B stories.

If you contribute, you can pre-order the two anthologies for Year Three, catch up with a pack of all four previous Plan B anthologies, or get the brand new paperback omnibus of all 52 Plan B stories so far!

There are other great perks available and stretch goals that would bring even more Plan B in 2015.

If you love the mystery and crime stories we’ve been bringing you, I hope you’ll take a look at the campaign and share it with your mystery-loving friends.… Read the rest

We are thrilled to congratulate Stephen D. Rogers on winning the 2014 Derringer Award for his story “Luck is What You Make” (Crime Factory, May 2013).

You can read Stephen’s story “Inured” in the Plan B Volume II anthology, or online here.… Read the rest