NEW BOX STORIES PUBLISHED: Usually I’m promoting C.J. Box’s novels on these pages (and the next one’s due this spring). But Chuck’s latest e-mail newsletter talked about his newly published stories. Here’s the straight dope (as a Hammett character might say): An exclusive limited-edition short story featuring Nate Romanowski (with an introduction by two-time Edgar winner T. Jefferson Parker) called ‘The Master Falconer’ will be published in spring of 2006 by ASAP Publishing. Contact the press at asap-publishing@cox.net. The short story “Pirates of Yellowstone” has been selected for inclusion in the tenth volume of Houghton Mifflin's “Best American Mystery Stories 2006.” Editor Otto Penzler and guest editor Scott Turow ("Presumed Innocent") made the announcement Feb. 2 in New York. The anthology will appear in the fall of 2006.

- posted by Michael Shay @ 11:10 AM