Archive for June, 2011
Inspiration and Writers
C.K. Crigger lives with her husband and three feisty little dogs in Spokane Valley, Washington, where she crafts stories set in the Inland Northwest. She is a two-time Spur Award finalist, in 2007 for Short Fiction, and in 2009 for Audio, as well as the 2008 Eppie Award winner for historical/western fiction. She is a [...]
June 30, 2011
Posted in: Guest Blogs 
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Neverending Research
Author of eight Margot O’Banion & Max Skull mysteries, Kit Sloane’s offbeat stories chronicle the intricacies of Hollywood filmmaking from the point of view of her protagonist, feature film editor Margot O’Banion and her significant other, director Max Skull. She was the first fiction editor of Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine from 1996-1998. A longtime member [...]
June 29, 2011
Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Guest Blogs 11 Comments
A Novel Direction In Publishing
Returning guest blogger Sunny Frazier, whose first novel in the Christy Bristol Astrology Mysteries, Fools Rush In, received the Best Novel Award from Public Safety Writers Association, explains why she became an acquisitions editor and why her publisher and employer, Oak Tree Press, is to be admired. sunny69@comcast.net http://www.sunnyfrazier.com http://www.oaktreebooks.com/ Two years ago I made [...]
June 28, 2011
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Abraham Lincoln Goes Hollywood
Joel Fox likes to say he has a long rap sheet in California politics. For three decades he has been a taxpayer and small business advocate, served on numerous state commissions appointed by governors and assembly speakers from both major political parties, worked on many ballot issue campaigns, and advised numerous candidates, including Arnold Schwarzenegger [...]
June 27, 2011
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Will I Ever Run Out of Ideas?
Born in Memphis, Paula Petty attended David Lipscomb University in Nashville before graduating from the University of Memphis with a degree in merchandising and a minor in marketing. Paula married her college sweetheart shortly after graduation. They reside in Chattanooga, TN. Paula has worked in a variety of job roles which gives her insights into the many characters [...]
June 26, 2011
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Won’t Somebody Think Of The Children?
Alina Adams wrote figure skating mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime, romances for AVON and Dell, and soap-opera tie-ins for Pocket Books. Her latest project, Skate Crime: Multimedia, an enhanced e-book, ” retails for $.99 cents in Amazon’s Kindle store at: http://tinyurl.com/SkateCrime and can be experienced through the Kindle app on iPad, iPhone, and your desktop. [...]
June 25, 2011
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Truth From Fiction?
Nancy Lynn Jarvis has been a Santa Cruz, California, Realtor® for more than twenty years. She owns a real estate company with her husband, Craig. After earning a BA in behavioral science from San Jose State University, she worked in the advertising department of the San Jose Mercury News. A move to Santa Cruz meant [...]
June 24, 2011
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Book Review: Bitter Legacy by H. Terrell Griffin
Bitter Legacy (A Matt Royal Mystery) H. Terrell Griffin Oceanview Publishing, 2010 ISBN No. 978-1933515960 Hardcover Matt Royal is in big trouble which is nothing new to Matt but this time someone is trying to kill him and he has no idea why. Matt is not the only target. Matt’s friend Logan Hamilton is shot [...]
June 23, 2011
Tags: Florida, mystery, Oceanview Publishing, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Do Older Heroines Live in a Segregated Literary World?
A journalism major, Linda Lovely has made her living as a writer, tackling everything from magazine features and ad copy to speeches and brochures. Her fiction manuscripts have made the finals in 15 contests, including RWA’s prestigious Golden Heart and Daphne du Maurier competitions and mystery contests such as Deadly Ink, Murder in the Grove [...]
June 21, 2011
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Book Review: Blood and Fire by Nick Brownlee
Blood and Fire Nick Brownlee Thos. Dunne Books, 2010 ISBN #978-0-3125-5024-0 Hardcover In Blood and Fire, the sequel to Bait, the wonderful debut novel by Nick Brownlee, the author once more brings together the unlikely team of Jake Moore, six-foot tall, 36-year-old ex-Scotland Yard cop now a game boat skipper on Kenya’s East Coast, and [...]
June 20, 2011
Tags: Kenya, mystery, police procedural, Thomas Dunne Books Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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