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Now Available for Pre-Order: Street Smart Series Omnibus

10/31/2022

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​Forthcoming -- Pre-Order Now for 20% Off

Now together under the same cover for the first time: all seven numbers of Frayed Edge Press’ Street Smart Series of Short Fiction—novelette-length works featuring contemporary urban settings, well-drawn characters, and engaging plots.

Stories include contemporary noir, coming-of-age, police procedural, and three stories featuring anarchists. Pre-publication sales pricing available now-- see the publication page for details.

Publication Date: November 15, 2022.  Physical Description: 6x9; 210 p.; pbk.
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Now Available as Ebooks -- Street Smart Series Nos. 6 & 7

9/1/2022

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Now Available as Ebooks!  Street Street Smart Series #6 -- "Make the Bear Be Nice", by Stephen St. Francis Decky and Smart Series #7 -- The Day is Gone, by Shelonda Montgomery, are now available as ebooks! In addition to the usual availability on Amazon Kindle, we've expanded our ebook offerings onto new platforms -- including Apple iBooks, Kobo, B&N and more! Use the links on the book pages or search by ISBN on your favorite platform! Look for more FEP titles coming to a wider variety of ebook platforms soon!
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Celebrate Short Story Month with FEP Street Smart Series

5/3/2022

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Happy May! Celebrate Short Story Month with novelettes from Frayed Edge Press' Street Smart Series!

Seven short fiction titles featuring contemporary urban settings, well-drawn characters, and engaging plots. 
​These handy, pocket-sized reads are perfect for commuting or reading in one sitting! 

You can find them all at:
https://www.frayededgepress.com/street-smart.html
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Street Smart Series Nos. 6 and 7 Now Available

11/8/2021

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The latest two numbers in Frayed Edge Press' Street Smart Series of Short Fiction are now available!

#6 - "Make the Bear Be Nice" by Stephen St. Francis Decky. Both poignant and funny, this story concerns a homeless teen working nights cleaning movie theaters at a South Jersey cineplex. He forms an unlikely friendship with a former high-school classmate and his sister, while also struggling to come to terms with his estranged father. The story culminates with a chaotic uprising during a screening of an annoyingly ubiquitous summer blockbuster kids’ movie.​ 

#7 - The Day is Gone by Shelonda Montgomery. In this story, a Chicago family’s lives are disrupted when two young brothers and their friend discover the body of a local store owner in a ditch. The children are so used to seeing violence in their neighborhood that they don’t bother telling anyone. When their mother finds out, it sets in motion a plan to move the family to a safer neighborhood. Complications arise when their father loses his job and abandons them, leaving their mother to ensure the safety of the family on her own.  

 Get your copies now and read more about all of the Street Smart Series titles here!
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Two New "Street Smart Series" Stories Coming in November

10/15/2021

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Two new numbers in Frayed Edge Press' Street Smart Series of Short Fiction are coming in November!

#6 - "Make the Bear Be Nice" by Stephen St. Francis Decky launches on November 2, 2021 and is available at a special pre-sale discount price now! Both poignant and funny, this story concerns a homeless teen working nights cleaning movie theaters at a South Jersey cineplex. He forms an unlikely friendship with a former high-school classmate and his sister, while also struggling to come to terms with his estranged father. The story culminates with a chaotic uprising during a screening of an annoyingly ubiquitous summer blockbuster kids’ movie.​ 

#7 - The Day is Gone by Shelonda Montgomery launches on November 9, 2021 and is also available at a special pre-sale discount price now! In this story, a Chicago family’s lives are disrupted when two young brothers and their friend discover the body of a local store owner in a ditch. The children are so used to seeing violence in their neighborhood that they don’t bother telling anyone. When their mother finds out, it sets in motion a plan to move the family to a safer neighborhood. Complications arise when their father loses his job and abandons them, leaving their mother to ensure the safety of the family on her own.  

 Read more about all of the Street Smart Series titles here!
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Albert Tucher's Pele's Domain Reviewed in Crime Fiction Lover

3/10/2020

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Like a good, fast-paced crime story? Are you someone who can appreciate the "ironic contrast between tropical paradise and dirty dealing"? Like a strong female lead? Meet Officer Jenny Freitas as she races to solve a series of murders on the Big Island of Hawaii, even as evidence is being gobbled up by the lava flow from the angry goddess Pele. 

​"Tucher made a good choice in setting the story in the midst of Kilauea’s eruption. It is not only an unusual adversary, akin to a hurricane or an avalanche, it adds an overlay of dread to the story – things are out of control. . . . Pele’s Domain
 is a quick fun read!" -- Vicki Weisfeld in Crime Fiction Lover

Pele's Domain by Albert Tucher
Street Smart Series #4​

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Now Available for Pre-Sale: Street Smart Series Nos. 4 and 5

12/3/2019

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Street Smart Series Nos. 4 and 5 are now available for pre-sale!

In Stealing MacGuffin by Matthew Kastel, a Baltimore PI gets hired to steal an unusual Hollywood artifact from an infamous director...

In Pele's Domain by Albert Tucher, a rookie policewoman on the the big island of Hawaii races against time, and lava, to solve the "perfect crime"...

20% off list price if you order now -- and a special deal if you purchase both!

See all the information here.

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First Three Titles in Street Smart Series Now Available

10/1/2019

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We're pleased to announce the publication of the first three titles in the Street Smart Series of Short Fiction for People on the Go! This series features short fiction of “novelette” length (between 10,000 to 20,000 words – a work that is longer than a short story, but shorter than a novella).  Presented in a handy 5-by-7-inch format, these works are long enough to tell a good story, but brief enough to be read on a short train journey or long commute. They feature contemporary urban settings, well-drawn characters, and  engaging plots. 

Street Smart Series #1 is Jean-Bernard Pouy's Full Fare -- a translation of his Plein Tarif, originally published in France in the 1990s. The series of short fictions made available to read in train stations in France  provided the inspiration for this series from Frayed Edge Press. Pouy is a well-known author of a popular detective series in France; this is the first English translation of his work. In Full Fare, government officials create a novel plan to prevent deaths of the homeless: house them in disused train cars on the outskirts of the city. This unintentionally creates a social and political experiment that leads to a new form of society—and causes the police and authorities to clash with the homeless train dwellers and the anarchists who’ve come to support them.

In Street Smart Series #2, Down and Out in Paris, with Cat, by R. A. Bolo, an American ex-patriot leads a life that many would envy: living and working in Paris. But all is not well for him in the beautiful “city of lights”—his French girlfriend has left him, he’s fallen off the wagon after decades of sobriety, and a homeless cat is now tugging at his heartstrings.

Street Smart Series #3 is The Accidental Anarchist by A. R. Melnik. Middle-aged English professor Caroline Wilson has a good job and a good husband in Philadelphia, but a restless need for a change of scene and a little excitement has her impulsively boarding a commuter bus to New York one morning. A turn down a New York City alley unexpectedly plunges her into a world she never could have imagined, where young anarchists are battling against human traffickers—and they need Caroline’s help.

Look for more titles in the Street Smart Series coming soon! Learn more about number one through 3, and get a special deal when you buy all three!  
https://www.frayededgepress.com/street-smart-series.html

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Call for Submissions: Short Fiction

5/8/2018

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Seeking short fiction (10,000 to 20,000 words) with a contemporary urban setting for the Street Smart Series from Frayed Edge Press. 

For this series, we’re looking for manuscripts of 10,000 to 20,000 words – long enough to involve the reader in a good story, but brief enough to be read on a short train journey or long commute. This size manuscript is essentially a “novelette” – a work that is longer than a short story, but shorter than a novella. 

Your story should have a contemporary urban setting, well-drawn characters, and an engaging plot. Action, suspense, and even some sex and violence are great, but not mandatory. Humor is a plus and diverse characters are an expectation. We’re open to various genres as well as cross-over, multi-genre works. Some good models to think about are: hard-boiled detective stories, noir fiction, street lit, and urban fantasy. Elements of mystery, horror, SF, and/or some romance are also fine – but please, no “cozy” mysteries or anything that is primarily romance. Everything published in this series will have a dark underbelly and some grit to it.

See the Frayed Edge Press guidelines for fiction for more information: 
https://www.frayededgepress.com/fiction.html
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