Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss
@stephenross.net
Author of Mysteries (Edgar/Thriller/Derringer Nominee). Musician.
Member: MWA (Mystery Writers of America) & NZSA (Aotearoa)
Repped by High Spot Literary
Substack: Cinema555.com
Website: StephenRoss.net
Member: MWA (Mystery Writers of America) & NZSA (Aotearoa)
Repped by High Spot Literary
Substack: Cinema555.com
Website: StephenRoss.net
Halloween seems an appropriate day to announce the launch of my book. 🙂 Do come along!
October 31, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Halloween seems an appropriate day to announce the launch of my book. 🙂 Do come along!
COVER REVEAL 😃 (publication is soon)
𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮! 𝘿𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩!
𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮! 𝘿𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩!
October 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
COVER REVEAL 😃 (publication is soon)
𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮! 𝘿𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩!
𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮! 𝘿𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩!
My story, MURDER IN F-SHARP, appears in this issue. On sale now.
"𝑀𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑠 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑀𝑟. 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑏𝑦. 𝐻𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑦 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘..."
"𝑀𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑠 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑀𝑟. 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑏𝑦. 𝐻𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑦 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘..."
August 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
My story, MURDER IN F-SHARP, appears in this issue. On sale now.
"𝑀𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑠 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑀𝑟. 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑏𝑦. 𝐻𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑦 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘..."
"𝑀𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑠 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑀𝑟. 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑏𝑦. 𝐻𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑦 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘..."
Elementar, mein lieber Watson.
July 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Elementar, mein lieber Watson.
We had a wonderful time at Whangaparāoa Library for Saturday's Mystery at the Library event ("Crime by the Coastline"). A criminally great discussion on the craft of crime fiction writing.
June 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
We had a wonderful time at Whangaparāoa Library for Saturday's Mystery at the Library event ("Crime by the Coastline"). A criminally great discussion on the craft of crime fiction writing.
If you're in Auckland next weekend, drop by the library in Whangaparaoa for a fun afternoon of mystery writers talking about the craft of mystery writing. See you there!
May 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
If you're in Auckland next weekend, drop by the library in Whangaparaoa for a fun afternoon of mystery writers talking about the craft of mystery writing. See you there!
Cool news no. 2 this week! Murder, Neat: A SleuthSayers Anthology has received an Anthony Award nomination for Best Anthology! (My story ROOM OF ICE is in this book.)
May 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Cool news no. 2 this week! Murder, Neat: A SleuthSayers Anthology has received an Anthony Award nomination for Best Anthology! (My story ROOM OF ICE is in this book.)
Cool news! Murder, Neat: A SleuthSayers Anthology received the inaugural Derringer Award for Best Anthology! My story ROOM OF ICE is in this book.
May 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Cool news! Murder, Neat: A SleuthSayers Anthology received the inaugural Derringer Award for Best Anthology! My story ROOM OF ICE is in this book.
I know it's perfectly fine, but when writing in NZ English, I am so wanting to change that verb to "centimetred."
April 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I know it's perfectly fine, but when writing in NZ English, I am so wanting to change that verb to "centimetred."
Saturday afternoon at the Whangaparāoa library with one of New Zealand's finest writers, Graham Reid. Wonderful.
April 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Saturday afternoon at the Whangaparāoa library with one of New Zealand's finest writers, Graham Reid. Wonderful.
Saturday. Writing. I see it's taken two months to write 11k. WIP is currently 62k and change. Onward. The plot is thickening.
#writing #amwriting #booksky #WritingCommunity #WritingLife
#writing #amwriting #booksky #WritingCommunity #WritingLife
March 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Saturday. Writing. I see it's taken two months to write 11k. WIP is currently 62k and change. Onward. The plot is thickening.
#writing #amwriting #booksky #WritingCommunity #WritingLife
#writing #amwriting #booksky #WritingCommunity #WritingLife
Grrr. LibGen has stolen (scraped, pirated) several of my published short stories to develop their dataset. Meta (Zuckerberg) doesn't give a damn about copyright. Apparently, Meta considered paying authors, but then decided, fuck it, let's just steal it.
March 27, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Grrr. LibGen has stolen (scraped, pirated) several of my published short stories to develop their dataset. Meta (Zuckerberg) doesn't give a damn about copyright. Apparently, Meta considered paying authors, but then decided, fuck it, let's just steal it.
I would actually start watching Bond movies again if this were a thing. (Yeah, it's from The Onion.)
February 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I would actually start watching Bond movies again if this were a thing. (Yeah, it's from The Onion.)
Dorset, England, 1938.
February 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Dorset, England, 1938.
He should have named it "Gulf of the Americas" to be more accurate and inclusive, but then, inclusivity isn't his thing.
It's been known as the Gulf of Mexico for 400 years, and 400 years from now, it will still be the Gulf of Mexico.
It's been known as the Gulf of Mexico for 400 years, and 400 years from now, it will still be the Gulf of Mexico.
February 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
He should have named it "Gulf of the Americas" to be more accurate and inclusive, but then, inclusivity isn't his thing.
It's been known as the Gulf of Mexico for 400 years, and 400 years from now, it will still be the Gulf of Mexico.
It's been known as the Gulf of Mexico for 400 years, and 400 years from now, it will still be the Gulf of Mexico.
"Success nourishes hope!" (My mother was from Skye; I don't live there, but it's my spiritual home.)
February 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"Success nourishes hope!" (My mother was from Skye; I don't live there, but it's my spiritual home.)
I just learned that the MURDER, NEAT anthology (published last year) has been short-listed for the inaugural Derringer Award for Best Anthology. (My story ROOM OF ICE is in this book.) Nice news on a Sunday morning. 😃
February 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I just learned that the MURDER, NEAT anthology (published last year) has been short-listed for the inaugural Derringer Award for Best Anthology. (My story ROOM OF ICE is in this book.) Nice news on a Sunday morning. 😃