Travel Tuesday, Anyone? Bring Your Own Armchair
One of the best things about being a mystery author is brainstorming new stories and settings. I love that I can “virtually” hang around London most days as I write, and have my characters hop a fictional plane at any moment to go to France, Italy, Spain–or wherever. My friend Eleanor was “literally” hanging out in England last week and sharing pictures of her trip on her FB page, and giving me some fun new things to think about as I work up future Bodies of Art books. That’s the beauty of writing about characters who use their passports on an almost daily basis, all the time I spend reading my friends’ FB pages that show their travel shots counts as research, too. But that’s not all. If you like your mysteries with an international flair, consider joining me and four other fun mystery authors (including the afore mentioned Eleanor) Read more…
Friday Preview–Midnight Mysteries
I thought today would be a good day for a sneak peek at the short stories coming in a couple of weeks in MIDNIGHT MYSTERIES: 9 Cozy Tales by 9 Bestselling Mystery Authors. As I already mentioned in an earlier post, this collection has All Brand New, Never Before Published Stories from favorite mystery authors and feature bestselling mystery series. The book tops 400 pages, and I’ll post the buy link in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, look forward to these stories– Ritter Ames – “Organized for Masked Motives” (from the Organized Mysteries series) Kate McKenzie never dreamed when she started her business, Stacked in Your Favor, that she’d spend nearly as much time crime solving as organizing. But with Halloween approaching, and too many items on the to-do list, she and Meg Berman find themselves in another puzzling dilemma—where every answer leads to another question. Morgana Best – “No Read more…
Another Giveaway Day & Fun Trivia
Thrilled to say the International Cozy Mystery Bundle is out and a hit on the charts, and we’re over at Laffeinated Ink today talking trivia about the featured books and giving away copies of the bundle! Best of all, my book, Counterfeit Conspiracies is smack in the middle of books by three of my favorite authors! The four-book mystery bundle includes: Fashion, Lies, and Murder (Amber Fox Mysteries book #1) by Sibel Hodge Counterfeit Conspiracies (Bodies of Art Mysteries book #1) by Ritter Ames Death Under the Venice Moon (Lella York Mysteries book #2) by Maria Grazia Swan Chasing the Dollar (Miranda Vaughn Mysteries book #1) by Ellie Ashe Here’s more great news, while it’ll be a steal at the $6.99 regular price next week, Get it This Week when it’s on sale for only 99 cents! So drop by the Laffeinated Ink blog if you have a minute and answer the easy question to enter the giveaway, and celebrate our bundle that’s already at Read more…
Pre-Christmas Ebook Sale!
I wanted to let everyone know my publisher is running a 99 cent special right now on books from the Gemma Halliday Publisher line. Four are recent releases — two YA novels & two adult novels — and another four are fan favorites. Not sure exactly how long the sale will last, so grab them at 75% off while you can. You can get four for the original price of one! The 99-cent price is for all Amazon Kindle and most B&N Nook versions. Links provided below 🙂 And shoot over to Dru’s Book Musings at http://notesfromme.wordpress.com/ to see where one of my characters, Cassie Dean, is blogging today on her life and on the other characters in Counterfeit Conspiracies. Leave a comment there and you might win a signed copy of the book! But you have to enter by noon tomorrow, so hurry! See below to learn all the great Read more…
CONTEST! This weekend only!
All the posting I’ve done recently about contests makes me want to do a giveaway myself. I wanted to do one where I could hear everyone’s stories, and make it tie to the good feelings of the holiday season. The recent kindness of a friend helped me determine exactly what to do. Maria Grazia Swan is an author with an absolutely beautiful soul. I recently needed “almost immediate” copy editing for a writing project. Despite the fact that she’s just as busy (if not more) than the rest of us this time of year, Maria stepped up in my hour of need. She not only noted specific problems, but found someone in Belgium to quickly review and vet the revision. Besides being a wonderful friend, Maria is a fabulous author. Her recent release Gemini Moon is the first in a new series featuring Lella York. This is a wonderful suspense ride that Read more…
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