Annie Reed
Award-winning writer and editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch praises Pulphouse Fiction Magazine regular Annie Reed as “one of the best writers of her generation” and for good reason.
Read All Annie's Stories!
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Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #23 Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #13 Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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The Alien Who Ate My Homework and Burped
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There’ll Be Blue Popcorn Without You!: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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Annie & Thumper!
Annie with her Pulphouse mug. I wonder what she's drinking. Hot, delicious possibilities...
All About Annie Reed
Award-winning writer and editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch praises Pulphouse Fiction Magazine regular Annie Reed as “one of the best writers of her generation” and for good reason.
Annie’s won awards in categories as diverse as her writing. She’s been honored with appearances in five year’s best mystery and crime volumes, including an amazing three years in a row in the Best Mystery Stories of the Year edited by Otto Penzler. She received a Silver Honorable Mention from Writers of the Future and a Literary Fellowship from the Nevada Arts Council. She’s been a multiple Derringer finalist, and one of her romance stories, originally published as part of WMG’s Holiday Spectacular, was chosen to appear in study materials in Japan for students preparing for college entrance exams.
Annie writes in multiple genres, including mystery, suspense, science fiction, urban and contemporary fantasy, romance, and thrillers, along with the occasional story that doesn’t fall into any one specific genre. She’s a founding member of the Uncollected Anthology, a group composed of some of the best short story writers working in the contemporary and urban fantasy fields. Uncollected Anthology is currently in its tenth year of publishing themed anthologies three times yearly. Annie’s short fiction also appears regularly in Mystery, Crime & Mayhem magazine, and starting this year, she became a regular contributor to Thrill Ride—The Magazine. Her stories have also appeared in twenty-four volumes of Fiction River to date.
Along the way, Annie worked as a radio DJ at a local FM station, was an art instructor, and played in a rock band. Then she went to work for lawyers. She now writes and edits fulltime while continuing to study the craft of writing, because learning never ends and it’s always a surprise how this whole writing thing turns out.
Kind of like her current hobby—sourdough baking.
She also writes novels and cuddles cats.
Annie can be found on web at anniereed.wordpress.com and on Facebook as annie.reed.142.
Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #13 Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
One of the most fun times I’ve had writing...
One of the most fun times I’ve had writing a story is “The
Ballad of Bob Dumpty,” part of Pulphouse #15. Told from the point of
view of a Vegas lounge lizard/piano player named Phoenix Johnson, the story’s a
mystery involving Bob Dumpty, who just happens to be a balance beam gymnast and
cousin to the famous Humpty.
Yes, seriously.
One of the best responses to the story came from my
buddy Robert Jeschonek (another Pulphouse regular) who told me he loved
it and wished he’d written it! Now, I’ve been a big fan of Planet Bob’s stories
for a long, long time. To say that he and I have vastly different
writing voices is an understatement. Coming from Bob, that compliment was high
praise indeed.
Since then, Bob and I figured out a way to blend our
unique voices together in our co-written Gray Lady science fiction
novels. We’re currently working on the third book in the series. We’re having
so much fun we don’t see the series ending anytime soon.
Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #15
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Annie's Wins, Gets "Best Of" & A Woot!
I’ve been a writer practically all my life, but back when I decided to get serious about this writing thing, I hung out around a lot of professional science fiction writers. I went to a lot of workshops, learned everything I could, but even though I was finally starting to sell a few of my stories, I still felt totally out of place. I always considered myself a mystery writer.
Thankfully, my friend Louisa Swann (another Pulphouse writer and my longtime road-trip buddy) knocked some sense into me. Look at your sales, she told me.
So I did.
My first three professional sales were to Strange New Worlds, a Star Trek anthology edited by Dean Wesley Smith. (My fourth pro sale was to Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, but still, three out of the first four were science fiction.) I was also starting to sell science fiction and fantasy stories to Denise Little for her
Daw anthologies.
Huh. Maybe I can write science fiction after all.
So I submitted a science fiction story to the Nevada Arts Council’s Literary Fellowship program. The story won, which I believe is the first time a science fiction story won the
Arts Council’s top literary award. (You can find the winning story “One Sun, No
Waiting” in Pulphouse #14.)
The capper was last year when my science fiction mystery “The Blood-Red Leaves of Autumn” was selected by Lisa Unger and series editor Steph Cha for The Best American Mystery & Suspense 2023. Woot! Science fiction and mystery! (You can find “The Blood-Red Leaves of Autumn” in Pulphouse #31.)
Pulphouse editor Dean Wesley Smith likes to say that with one of my stories, you’ll never know what you’re going to get. Most of the time when I sit down to write, I never know what I’m going to get either. After years and years of thinking of myself as a mystery writer, it’s been a lot of fun proving myself wrong.
Read Annie's Story Selected For The Best American Mystery & Suspense 2023
Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #31 Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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Junior
The Continuity Editor.
Read the First Science Fiction Story to Ever Win the Nevada Arts Council’s Top Literary Award
Written by Annie, of course!
Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #14
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Find Annie In All Of These Pulphouses!!
Do you love reading Annie's stories? (We do!)
Here are all of the Pulphouse books and issues you can find Annie's stories in. Enjoy!!
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Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #11 Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #13 Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #06 Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #07 Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #17 Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #18 Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #20 Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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Implode the Membrane: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Edited by Dean Wesley Smith (EBOOK)
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History Repeats for No Reason: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Edited by Dean Wesley Smith (EBOOK)
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Destination Tomorrow or Yesterday: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Edited by Dean Wesley Smith (EBOOK)
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Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #08 Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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Through the Wringer
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Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue #30 Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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Alibi Murder: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Edited by Dean Wesley Smith (EBOOK)
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Don’t Touch My Magic!: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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Whodunnit Didn’t Do It
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Aliens Among Us: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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Cattitude Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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Snot-Nosed Aliens: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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I Heard the Twang of Love and It Hurt My Ears
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An Afterlife of Really Creepy Stories
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The Alien Who Ate My Homework and Burped
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No Way: Totally Twisted Tales Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Edited by Dean Wesley Smith
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