Market update

ezine, non-paying:

http://Darknessbefore.blogspot.com

ezine, non-paying:

www.powderburnflash.com

Poll Results: Derringer Category Names

With 54.9 percent of the vote, the following Derringer category names have been chosen:

Best Flash Story (Up to 1,000 words)

Best Short Story (1,001-4,000 words)

Best Long Story (4,001-8,000 words)

Best Novelette (8,001-17,500 words)


The category lengths in parentheses are not part of the category names, but they will stay in effect for sorting the Derringer submissions.

Overall Tone

The SMFS Officers cannot be expected to police every phrase that may possibly offend. However, if a member's posts devolve from reasoned argument to impulsive reaction, that is cause to be placed on moderated status, whereupon the member's posts must be approved by the President or Vice President before reaching the list. Moderated members will be returned to normal posting status when a sufficient number of their posts show reasoned argument.

Poll Results: Golden Derringer Panel Permanent Member

By a margin of 46 FOR, 7 AGAINST, the membership has approved Babs Lakey as permanent member of the Golden Derringer panel, serving a term of her choosing.

Avoid Automated Invitations

Automated invitations (such as those sent by various social networking sites to a member's entire address book) should not be posted to Shortmystery. If an invitation is unintentionally sent to the list, I will place the sending member's account on moderated status to prevent further invitations from reaching the list until the member addresses the problem independently.

SMFS Market update

Here's a list of markets that aren't on our markets page on the website:

Yellow Mama ezine: http://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/yellowmama/index.html non-paying

A Twist of Noir ezine: http://a-twist-of-noir.blogspot.com/ non-paying

Beat to a Pulp ezine: http://www.beattoapulp.com/ non-paying

Crooked ezine: http://easternstandardcrime.blogspot.com/ non-paying

Thug Lit ezine: http://www.thuglit.com/home.html non-paying

Orchard Press Mysteries ezine: http://www.orchardpressmysteries.com/index.html fiction, non-paying

Feel free to send market updates to Joy Seymour (joyleenseymour@earthlink.net)

Poll Results: Shortmystery and Grouply

In accordance with a group vote of 51 FOR, 2 AGAINST, I have changed Shortmystery's settings via Grouply Owner Controls:

- I have disabled Grouply invitations, which means no member of Grouply will be able to post invitations to Shortymystery or invite Shortmystery members individually.

- I have unlisted Shortmystery's name at Grouply.

- I have blocked access to Shortmystery from Grouply.

- I have requested that all Shortmystery messages currently on Grouply be deleted. This deletion will take up to 48 hours.

As I've mentioned, I don't trust Grouply to follow through, but at least we've made the attempt. If you continue to receive messages from Grouply, know that I have made these changes, and as always, messages from Grouply are NOT AUTHORIZED by me.


Onlist threads discussing Grouply:

• Moderator's Note: Beware of Grouply started by Gerald So


• GROUPLY WARNING started by Eva Batonne


• grouply started by Victor J. Banis


• my understanding regarding GROUPLY started by Eva Batonne


• Grouply started by Susanne