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Janet Hutchings began her career as editor and publisher at the Doubleday Book Clubs, where she was given opportunities to read for the Mystery Guild, to which almost every mystery or crime novel waiting to be published in America would be submitted for possible inclusion. This experience greatly enhanced her passion for mysteries, and later she became Mystery Editor for Walker & Company and published a series of anthologies of stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. The connection allowed her to meet Sullivan at the EQMM 50th anniversary party in 1991, and she was later interviewed as a possible successor to the magazine's editor.[24] After Sullivan died in 1991, Hutchings succeeded as editor of EQMM and has held the position since then.[28]
Hutchings inherited Dannay's principle of the magazines, making quality the only standard while trying to maintain a great variety of the genre mysteries and a global focus. She said in an interview that her aim had always been to try to "make EQMM's umbrella as wide as that of the genre", and to publish stories from the broadest possible range of mysteries. In 2003, Hutchings established the Passport to Crime department, which would translate works from other languages on a regular basis. She explained this as the magazine scouting more actively for stories in other languages instead of just waiting for submissions from foreign writers.[14][11]
During Hutchings' editorship, EQMM embraced the trend of digitalization. In the early 1990s, it converted to desktop publishing,[14] and in 2011 Hutchings admitted that she now read submissions entirely on a Kindle.[12] In 2009, EQMM's podcast series began,[11] which offered audiences audio renditions of stories from the magazine's archives.[29] In the same year, EQMM's first major digital editions became available in addition to the traditional print format.[11] Something Is Going to Happen,[30] the EQMM editor's blog, was launched in 2012,[11] which formed a community where readers can discuss mystery and crime fiction, and where EQMM editors, writers and readers can communicate more directly.[31] The official website[32] of EQMM offered information about the magazines to both subscribers and writers. In January 2018, EQMM launched its first web-only column, "Stranger Than Fiction", on its official website.[33] Written by Dean Jobb and scheduled to be updated monthly for free, the new column studies and presents true crime cases, a topic that EQMM used to lack.[34]