“Murder Most Advanced” by William Dylan Powell

“Murder Most Advanced” by William Dylan Powell | SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN: William Dylan Powell’s Department of First Stories debut, “Evening Gold” (EQMM November 2006), won the Robert L. Fish Award for best short story by a new American author. The Texas writer is an ad man who managed to make time for his own writing and continues to produce both fiction and nonfiction. He has recently completed a private-eye novel featuring the protagonist of his upcoming EQMM story “The Seagull and the Skull” (don’t miss it in the July 2015 issue) and is currently at work on a book of Texas history. In this post, he explains how he became a rule-breaker in his writing—and achieved success.—Janet Hutchings