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Tim Wohlforth is a Pushcart Prize Nominee and he's received a Certificate of Excellence from the Dana Literary Society. His story The Masseuse was selected for inclusion in the Mystery Writers of America's Death Do Us Part, edited by Harlan Coben, and Otto Penzler chose the story for special recognition in the 2007 Best American Mystery Stories. His story Jesus Christ is Dead! made the "Distinguished Mystery Stories" list in Otto Penzler's 2005 Best American Mystery Stories.
Tim's contemporary noir novel, No Time to Mourn, was described by author Lee Child, "Like a great twelve-bar blues - the comfort of a familiar form jazzed by a fresh key and an exciting new voice." His latest thriller, Harry is now available from Whiskey Creek Press. Tim also co-authored the non-fiction book On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left, published by M.E. Sharpe. He also recently sold a collection of nine of his Crip & Henrietta stories to Perfect Crime Books. The stories will be released under the title, Pink Tarantula.
Tim has published seventy-five short stories, appearing in such publications as Futures Magazine, Detective Mystery Magazine, Crimestalker Casebook, Storyteller, Orchard Press, Hand Held Crime, Plots with Guns, Mysterical-e, Hardluck Stories, Without a Clue, SDO Detective, StoryOne, Dana OnLine, CyperPulp, New Thrilling Detective, Mindfire, Shred of Evidence (2004 Readers' Choice winner), Crimson Dagger, ThugLit, Echelon, Fictionwise, Web Mystery Magazine, Flashing in the Gutters, Demolition, Writers Hood, Mouthful of Bullets , and Back Alley,.
Tim's stories have appeared in thirteen anthologies, including the recentely released Techno-Noir, Short Attention Span Mysteries and Never Safe. Dennis McMillan published one of Tim's Crip and Henrietta stories as part of Plots with Guns anthology, and several of his short stories are being marketed by Sony for its E-Book Reader. Tim's work will appear in Hardcore Hardboiled due to be published by Kensington this year, as well as in Orange County Noir from Akashic, due out in
Tim has moderated and appeared on short story panels at numerous Bouchercon and Left Coast Crime conferences. He is a member of the Short Mystery Fiction Society, Mystery Writers of America, Private Eye Writers of America, and Sisters in Crime.
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Q & A
TW: I love all forms of mystery/suspense/thriller writing. However, for me, there is something especially attractive about writing short stories. They allow me to polish, polish, and then polish again, producing the best writing I am capable of. I can experiment with different protagonists and even different sub-genres (e.g. traditional mystery, PI stories, thrillers, crime stories). I have had greater luck in placing short stories than novels. However, compensation is minimal. I also love to write novellas. These are arguably the most difficult to place. The problem is the story idea usually determines the length. If I have a compelling idea, I write it to the length the story demands. Then I wrestle with the difficult job of placing it. Some short stories are what I call "accordion stories." They can be adjusted to any length between, say, 2500 and 5000 words. Others simply won't work give or take 500 words. I hope this helps.
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Set back in the time when rock & roll was born, a college boy heads to a place where the blues still live. He goes for the music, but comes face to face with a killer. And all the while, L'il Joe plays on and on.
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Jack London Square is shrouded in a thick suffocating fog the night P.I. Jim Wolf agrees to protect a young woman who has the largest, deepest brown eyes he has ever seen. Some profanity.
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Books
Harry, published by Whiskey Press, June 2010
No Time to Mourn, published in Quiet Storm, 2004
Death Do Us Part, published by Mystery Writers of America
published in The Best American Mystery Stories, 2007
On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left, edited by M.E. Sharp, 2000