Archive for the ‘Guest Blogs’ Category

Why I’m Not Writing

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 might not be writing at any given moment.
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I’m very adamant on the Internet and elsewhere that I don’t believe in [...]

June 8, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  7 Comments

The Magic of Place

Carol Pepper wrote Beyond Blood, her first book, over a five year period while she traveled the globe lecturing to wealthy families.  She drew on her extensive experience in the wealth management arena when writing this novel. Published in 2009, Beyond Blood is a Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist as well as an editor’s [...]

June 4, 2010   Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Guest Blogs  19 Comments

A Writer’s Responsibility

Beth Terrell (writing as E. Michael Terrell) is the author of Racing the Devil, featuring Nashville private investigator Jared McKean. Beth is a member of MWA, Sisters in Crime, and the Private Eye Writers of America. She is also the Executive Director of the Killer Nashville Crime Literature Conference.
Several months ago, [...]

June 1, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  5 Comments

A Personal Best

Returning guest blogger, Kathleen Delaney, talks about reaching a goal she thought was beyond her and how she’s going to apply the lessons learned to writing.

I’m not much for team sports. For whatever reason, football, baseball, all those kinds of sports have never grabbed me. Perhaps it’s because when I was young I went [...]

May 25, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  3 Comments

A Reviewer’s Story

P.J. Coldren lives in northern lower Michigan with her husband. She owns a lab/pit bull mix named Bruno and is owned by a large feline named Mongo.  She reads widely in the mystery genre and selectively from almost any other book category.  She deals drugs professionally (works in a hospital pharmacy) [...]

May 18, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  2 Comments

Living in the Present Tense

Douglas Corleone’s debut novel, One Man’s Paradise, is the winner of the 2009 Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award.  After spending several years as a criminal defense attorney in New York City, Doug moved to the Hawaiian Islands, where he is currently at work on his next novel.
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When I set off to [...]

May 14, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  One Comment

A Place in Time

Meredith Cole started her career as a screenwriter and filmmaker. She was the winner of the St. Martin’s Press/Malice Domestic competition, and her book Posed for Murder, was published by St. Martin’s Minotaur in 2009.  She was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. Her next book, Dead in [...]

May 11, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  6 Comments

The Details Are in the Research

Penny Warner has published over 50 books, both fiction and non-fiction, for adults and children, including over a dozen party books. Her latest book, How to Host a Killer Party, is the first in a new mystery series. Her books have won national awards, garnered excellent reviews, and have been printed in 14 countries. Her [...]

May 4, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  4 Comments

Does the Cover Compel You to Buy?

Mary Montague Sikes is an award-winning author, freelance writer, photographer, artist, and teacher who loves to travel, especially to glamorous tropical locations. Because Monti’s settings include exotic destinations like Jamaica, Antigua, Trinidad, the Bahamas, and St. Martin, her publisher, Oak Tree Books, created the Passenger to Paradise series for her novels. Her most recent research [...]

April 30, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  21 Comments

The Truth of Fiction

Sunny Frazier has been publishing both fiction and nonfiction since 1972. She is a Navy veteran, earned a BA in Journalism, and wrote for a newspaper before joining the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department. During her 17 year career in law enforcement, 11 of them were spent working with an undercover narcotics team.
Frazier is also an [...]

April 27, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  9 Comments