Posts Categorized: giveaways
Just a reminder that the two giveaways I have going (audiobooks and ebooks/paperbacks) will be ending tonight at midnight Eastern Daylight Time. I hope you enter to win! Besides, I need help selecting which picture of my kitty muse, Tora, to put up on the site (that’s one of the ways you can enter to…
All kinds of decisions (and a hundred indecisions, to paraphrase T.S. Eliot) go into the plotting of a mystery. For example, as I was deciding upon the plot points for UNSEEMLY FATE, book 7 of the Concordia Wells Mysteries, I knew I needed a rare literary artifact that would be compatible with the lady professor’s…
It seems the new Mrs. David Bradley can’t resist a little sleuthing. She isn’t a staid matron yet…. Unseemly Fate book 7 of the Concordia Wells Mysteries Beware of rich men bearing gifts…It’s the fall of 1899 and the new Mrs. David Bradley—formerly Professor Concordia Wells of Hartford Women’s College—is chafing against the hum-drum routine…
Happy February, everyone! The groundhog saw his shadow, so it’s six more weeks of staring at shriveled-up, brown vegetation and sighing over seed catalogs. Maybe I could grow corn on my back deck this summer?…maybe not. *wink* Speaking of gardening, the picture above was the top choice of folks who participated in the “Choose your…
Happy January! I hope those in the northern hemisphere have been keeping warm. It has certainly been nippy in our neck of the woods. As many of you know, the sixth book of the Concordia Wells Mysteries, Unseemly Honeymoon, came out last month! If you’re interested, you can find more details (blurb and vendor links) by…
To (liberally) paraphrase Austen: it is a truth universally acknowledged, that we introvert authors need to come out of our writing caves from time to time and interact with our fellows. The Malice Domestic Convention fits the bill nicely for those of us who are mystery author introverts. Malice celebrates mystery fiction written in the cozy…
Hi everyone! Today is the first day of a week-long, Amateur Sleuths Group Giveaway sponsored by Henery Press. The giveaway features books from 32 mystery authors, myself included (more on that below). The topic of amateur sleuths got me thinking: why do readers and authors find the amateur so appealing? As a former…
Hi everyone! I’m guest posting at Jami Gold’s site today, talking about my Top 7 online resources for historical research. Hope you can stop by! Researching History for Fiction Authors If you haven’t had a chance to pick up the latest Concordia Wells mystery, it’s available now at all the major online booksellers. Here’s…