Scott Mackay

Scott Mackay is a fiction writer from Toronto, He is the award-winning author of thirteen novels and fifty-three short stories. He won the Arthur Ellis Award 2016 for his short story, The Avocodo Kid, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Last Inning won the 1999 Arthur Ellis Award for best short mystery fiction. Another story, Reasons Unknown, won the Okanagan Award for Best Literary Short Fiction in early 1999.
His first Barry Gilbert mystery, Cold Comfort, was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for best mystery novel, and his science fiction novel, The Meek, was a finalist for the prestigious U.S. John Campbell Memorial Award for Best SF Novel of 2001. His novels have been published in six languages. Phytosphere was voted one of the ten best novels by the American Library Association in 2007. Represented by: Joshua Bilmes, JABberwocky, A Literary Agency, New York.

SCOTT MACKAY BIBLIOGRAPHY

Novels, First Editions Only

1.   A Friend in Barcelona, (HarperCollins Publisher Ltd, 1991)
2.   Outpost (Tor Books, 1998)
3.   Cold Comfort (Carroll & Graf Publishers Ltd, 1998)
4.   The Meek (Roc, Penguin Putnam, Inc. 2001)
5.   Fall Guy (St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2001)
6.   Orbis (Roc, Penguin Putnam, Inc. 2002)
7.   Old Scores (St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2003)
8.   Omnifix (Roc, Penguin Putnam, Inc. 2004)
9.   Tides (Pyr, Prometheus Books, 2005)
10. Phytosphere (Roc, Penguin Putnam, Inc. 2007)
11. Omega Sol (Roc, Penguin Putnam, Inc. 2008)
12. The Angel of the Glade (Severn House Publishers, 2009)
13. The Miser of Cherry Hill (Severn House Publishers, 2011)

Short Stories

1.   “Back at Sunnyside Beach,” Toronto’s Common Ground, Fall, 1984
2.   “The Muse,” The Antigonish Review, Summer-Fall, 1985
3.   “On that Night,” The Fiddlehead, Summer, 1987
4.   “The Black Suit,” Descant 61, Summer, 1988
5.   “The Emperor” The Fiddlehead, Spring, 1989
6.   “Shutting Out the Pain,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Oct. 1989
7.   “The Little Black Knife,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Dec. 1989
8.   “Dinosaurs,” Event, Summer, 1990
9.   “No Blackjack Tonight,” The Fiddlehead, Autumn, 1990
10. “Iserman’s Override” Tesseracts 3, ed. Candas Jane Dorsey & Gerry Truscott, Porcépic Books, 1990
11. “Dear Adelaide,” The University of Windsor Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, Spring, 1991
12. “The Orphan,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Oct. 1991
13. “Pool of Discontent,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Mar. 1992
14. “The Grey-Mailing of Leonard Coombes,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Aug. 1992
15. “Reasons Unknown,” Canadian Author, Winter, 1994
16. “The Sages of Cassiopeia,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Dec. 1994
17. “The Wave,” Science Fiction Age, July, 1995
18. “Bad Design,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Sep. 1995
19. “Second Fiddle,” The University of Windsor Review, Vol. 29, No. 2, Spring, 1996
20. “The Habit of Neglect,”  Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Mar. 1997
21. “Like a Shadow, Like a Dream,” Tesseracts 6, ed. Robert J. Sawyer & Carolyn Clink, Tesseract Books, 1997
22. “Reasons Unknown,” Northern Frights 4, ed. Don Hutchison, Mosaic Press, 1997
23. “We,” Science Fiction Age, Jan. 1998
24. “Last Inning,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Feb. 1998
25. “Final Improvement,” On Spec, Fall, 1999
26. “The Blessing,” Northern Frights 5, ed. Don Hutchison, Mosaic Press, 1999
27. “The Sages of Cassiopeia,” Northern Suns, ed. David G. Hartwell & Glenn Grant, Tor Books, 1999.
28. “The Collusionists,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Sep. 2000
29. “Freeze Damage,” On Spec, Winter 2000
30. “Unfixable,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Jul. 2001
31. “The Christmas-Tree Farm,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Jan. 2002
32. “Wasted Youth,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Apr. 2002
33. “The Pines of Cuska,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2003
34. “Silent Partner,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Sep. 2003
35. “Damaged Goods,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May. 2004
36. “The Kanaima,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Jul. 2004
37. “Numbers,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Aug. 200438. “The World of One-Ways,” Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, Issue 6, 2005
39. “Threshold of Perception,” Interzone Science Fiction and Fantasy, April 2005
40. “Shoes,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Jan. 2006
41. “The Sangoma,” On Spec, Winter, 2006
42. “Threshold of Perception,” Tesseracts 10, ed. Robert Charles Wilson & Edo van Belkom, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2006
43. “The Girl from Ipanema,” Tesseracts 10, ed. Robert Charles Wilson & Edo van Belkom, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2006
44. “Hot Button,” Mystery Ink, ed. Jake Doherty & Therese Greenwood, The Ginger Press, 2007
45. “The Pursuer,” On Spec, Fall 2007
47. “Horse Friends,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Mar. 2008
48. “Russians Come and Go,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2009
49. “The Girl with the Golden Hair,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Dec. 2011
50. “Plain Reckless,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Dec. 2011
51. “Cruel Coast,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Jul. 2012
52. “The Avocado Kid,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Jun. 2015
53. “The Ascent,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Aug. 2016

Articles

1. “Seeking the Promised Landlord,” The Globe and Mail, Apr. 1985

2. “Canada’s Murderous Weather,” Mystery Readers Journal, Winter 2003-2004

Awards, Nominations, Notable Mentions

1. “Reasons Unknown,” Canadian Author, Winter, 1994, Winner, the Okanagan Award for Best Literary Short Fiction.

2. “Last Inning,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Feb. 1998, Winner, the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Mystery Short Fiction.

3. Cold Comfort (Carroll & Graf Publishers Ltd, 1998), Nominated, the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Mystery/Crime Novel.

4. “The Collusionists,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Sep. 2000, Nominated, the Arthur Ellis Award, for Best Mystery Short Fiction.

5. Phytosphere (Roc, Penguin Putnam, Inc. 2007), Voted one of the ten best Speculative Fiction Novels of the Year by the American Library Association.

6. “The Avocado Kid,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Jun. 2015, Winner, the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Mystery Short Fiction.