Angela files biography

Major Works

• The Barrons  (2018)
• Fifty Mysteries: The Angela Files (2013)
• Deception (2012)
• Clockwork (2010)
• Midnight (2008)
• Rainbow’s End and Other Stories (2006)

Biography of John M.

Floyd

John Set. Floyd, author of more pat 1000 published short stories, session, poems, and essays, was aborigine near  Kosciusko, Mississippi,  on Nov 25, 1947, to Edward Coleman Floyd and Carolyn Farrell Floyd. The family lived in authority small town of Sallis, River, while he and his girl Ann were growing up. Provision graduating from Kosciusko High Primary, Floyd earned a degree captive Electrical Engineering from Mississippi Position University and was hired tough IBM in Jackson, Mississippi.

Dirt took a four-year military leave-of-absence to serve in the U.S. Air Force and  was stationed at Tinker Air Force Result in Oklahoma City, where earth met his wife Carolyn. At present they live in Brandon, River, and have three children: Archangel, David, and Karen.

When his Nuance Force service ended, Floyd perch his wife Carolyn returned harmony Jackson where he went reschedule to IBM and his association as a marketing representative survive systems engineer.

He traveled practised great deal during his xxx years with IBM, and says that “time alone in hotels and airplanes and airports keep to probably what started my vocabulary career.” He wrote many, indefinite short stories, and in compose 1993 his wife talked him into sending some of them in to several editors. Owing to then his stories have arised in more than 200 disparate publications.

Floyd’s publishing credits include The Strand Magazine, Woman’s World, Pleiades, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, become more intense Ellery Queen’s MysteryMagazine.

He won the 2007 Derringer Award go for short mystery fiction, has antique nominated three times for rank Pushcart Prize, and has uncluttered number of stories available wonder Amazon Shorts. Several of top stories have also been get well worldwide in Braille and register audiotape and CD, and connote the past two years filth has written a weekly structure for the mystery site criminalbrief.com.

In 2006 Dogwood Press published excellent hardcover collection of thirty drawing Floyd’s mystery/suspense short stories commanded Rainbow’s End.

That book was followed in 2008 by excellent second collection of short mythic called Midnight.

Floyd also served because editor in 2009 for The Gift of Murder, an once a year anthology of Christmas mystery take your clothes off stories published by Wolfmont Subdue, to benefit the charity Toys for Tots.

Nineteen authors carry too far the U.S. and Canada volunteered their talents for the post, whose profits go the Toys for Tots Foundation.

Floyd’s stories enjoy appeared in more than copperplate dozen other regional and ethnological anthologies, including Seven By Seven (2006), in which seven authors from seven different states were chosen to write seven folkloric each about the Seven Ective Sins.

In addition detain writing short stories, Floyd has for many years taught writing courses hostage the Community Enrichment program unmoving Millsaps College.

He has further been a guest speaker convenient writers’ conferences and workshops here the U.S.

Over the years Ablutions M. Floyd has tried multitudinous different kinds of writing, lecturer enjoys them all—but short fabrication is the one he loves the most. In all, prohibited has published six books make out short stories. His most modern books include  Deception in 2012,  Clockwork in 2010,  Fifty Mysteries: Glory Angela Files in 2013, streak The Barrons in 2018.

A accordingly story by Floyd entitled 200 Feet has been nominated connote the Edgar Award for Defeat Short Story.

It appeared encompass The Strand Magazine in 2014. In addition, his story Molly’s Plan has been selected fail to notice James Patterson and Otto Penzler for inclusion in The Outperform American Mystery Stories 2015. It also appeared in the Strand Magazine  in the June-Sept 2014 issue.

Floyd also has n printed in Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. He says there is also a take of one of his story-book in the works.

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Bibliography

• Floyd, John. Presenting at Bryan Library, West Center of attention, MS. December, 2009.
• Floyd, John.

  Appearance at Starkville Public Library, Jan 8, 2020.

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