Thursday, November 29, 2012

Thursday First ---Who Do VooDoo

Thursday First is here and today's first is ..

                              Who Do Voodoo by Rochelle Staab
                                    (Mind over Murder Series #1)


Overview

Clinical psychologist Liz Cooper doesn't believe in ghosts. But when her best friend finds a tarot card tacked to her front door-and is then accused of murder-Liz will have to find a way to embrace the occult if she wants to outwit the real killer...

Let Staab's debut cast a spell over your readers with its spirited pace, likable heroine, and Los Angeles backdrop. This is light, romantic suspense featuring first-person narration by psychologist Liz Cooper, whose best friend, Robin, is being stalked and hexed by an unknown assailant. But then the girlfriend of Robin's boss is murdered, and Robin becomes the prime suspect based on an argument witnessed by many. Garnering the assistance of a handsome, single professor who knows all things occult, BFF Liz digs in. When the curses increase and spells need to be broken, count on her to see it through. Mix in a mother who reads tarot, a brother who is with the LAPD, and a steady patter of classic film references. VERDICT Staab sets her fairly sophisticated blend of the occult in a flashy West Coast locale for great escape reading. Fans of Juliet Blackwell and Rebecca M. Hale will get a kick out of this one.

This book will have you loving it from the first page!!!!!!!

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Author Spotlight-- Rochelle Staab

It's Wednesday and you all know that means Author Spotlight and today we are giving a shout out to ....


                                 ROCHELLE STAAB!

Overview of her neewest book Bruja Brouhaha

Practical psychologist Liz Cooper and occult professor Nick Garfield are enjoying the sixteenth wedding anniversary celebration for their charming hosts Paco and Lucia Rojas, devout Santeria practitioners who own the historic Botanica Rojas near MacArthur Park. But the small group of friends is left horrified and confused when the evening ends in tragedy.
Devastated by loss, Lucia, a Santeria priestess, blames the locals for the escalating crime in her beloved community. She casts a vengeful hex on the neighborhood, leading strangers and friends alike to dub her bruja—Spanish for witch—and turn on the elderly woman. Lucia may be in harm's way, and it's up to Liz and Nick to unravel a mysterious disappearance and solve a murder before more lives are lost...





Rochelle Staab, a former award-winning Top 40 radio programmer and Warner Bros. Records advertising and marketing executive, blended her fascination with the supernatural and her love for mystery in her Mind for Murder Mystery series for Berkley Prime Crime.
Rochelle began writing professionally one phrase at a time creating radio promotions and, years later, advertising campaigns for music albums. She found her author's voice writing a weekly music sales trend analysis for fellow label executives at 4am every Wednesday morning. Bleary-eyed and in a rush to email the news to her colleagues to read with their first cup of coffee, she bypassed business formality and wrote colloquial. The dry statistics came to life with drama or humor, and her creative editorials grew from the original four recipients to a following of hundreds. The positive responses to her style gave her confidence to enroll in fiction writing classes.

In 2007 Rochelle left the music industry to pursue a career as an author. WHO DO, VOODOO? the first novel she wrote, became a bestseller. According to Library Journal, "Staab sets her fairly sophisticated blend of the occult in a flashy West Coast locale for great escape reading."
WHO DO VOODOO? went on to garner Best First Novel nominations for the 2012 Anthony, Agatha, and Eureka! awards. The novel was a 2010 Golden Heart® finalist for Contemporary Series: Suspense/Adventure.

Way to go Rochelle on a pretty awesome series!!!!!!

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

My review of Diners, Dives and Dead Ends

This is my first read by Terri L. Austin and I must say that I really enjoyed it.
Rose is a hilarious, fun and likable person with out of the ordinary friends. This fast pasced mystery will keep you on the edge of your seat wanting to know what will happen next.
Rose is a waitress barely making ends meet at Ma's Diner. A waitress by day and a college student by night she risks her life to find her missing friend. Will she find her friend before the bad guys find her.

Read this fantastic book and find out!!!

Terri L. Austin author of Diners Dives and Dead Ends Blog Tour



Hi Terri, it is a pleasure to have you with us today. Thank you for stopping by.

Tell us about yourself?
First of all, thanks so much for having me on Shelley’s Bookcase today. I’m happy to be here!
My name is Terri L. Austin. I’m a wife and mom of two kids, both in college. I love to write, bake when I have the time, and I’ve recently started to play with beads. I like to string them, loop them, and embroider with them. No one told me how addictive the shiny beads are!

Where did you get your ideas for this book?
 I wanted a heroine who was likable and a bit of an underdog. Rose Strickland fit the bill. She’s smart and funny, but as a former rich girl turned waitress, Rose doesn’t have her life figured out. She keeps trying though.
I wanted her friend to go missing and I knew I wanted a sexy villain. That was about all I had in mind when I started writing Diners, Dives and Dead Ends. Nothing else.
I’m a pantser, not a plotter. I like to be surprised by what my characters will do next. I feel that if I plot out the book, I might miss something along the way. Something that might take the book in a completely different direction. So I don’t overthink. I just write and see where the characters take me.
What are you working on next?
I’ve just finished the second Rose Strickland Mystery, Last Diner Standing. It will be released December 3, 2012. I’m excited about the next chapter for Rose and her gang of quirky friends.
Right now, I’m working on a paranormal set in Tulsa, OK. I used to live in Tulsa, and I love that town. So it’s fun to set my characters there and turn them loose. Add a mystery and some supernatural shenanigans and I call that a good time.

Can you tell us about your challenges in getting your book published?
Of course I went through the whole rejection thing. This is a tough biz and you start to doubt yourself. But I’m always working on something, so when I would get a rejection, I’d send out another query and keep writing. I make goals for myself—both daily and weekly. I try to stay focused and moving forward. You either toughen up or quit. I love writing, so quitting was not an option for me. I’m so happy and blessed to be with Henery Press. I’ve met some great people and have gotten to work with a wonderful editor. 
What Authors have influenced you to write?
There are so many authors I have a huge fangirl love for. Janet Evanovich—of course. Karen Marie Moning—her Fever series rocked my world. Kresely Cole—Immortals After Dark—the heroes make me swoon, the heroines are funny and hardcore. Gena Showalter—everything the woman writes is amazing. Carolyn Crane and her Disillusionists series—so unique. Christina Faust writes the gritty Angel Dare series. Charlaine Harris—both her mysteries and the Sookie books.  

Diners, Dives and Dead Ends
A Rose Strickland Mystery
By Terri L. Austin        
978-1938383007
Henery Press




Overview:
As a struggling waitress and part-time college student, Rose Strickland’s life is stalled in the slow lane. But when her close friend, Axton, disappears, Rose suddenly finds herself serving up more than hot coffee and flapjacks. Now she’s hashing it out with sexy bad guys and scrambling to find clues in a race to save Axton before his time runs out.
With her anime-loving bestie, her septuagenarian boss, and pair of IT wise men along for the ride, Rose discovers political corruption, illegal gambling, and shady corporations. She’s gone from zero to sixty and quickly learns when you’re speeding down the fast lane, it’s easy to crash and burn. 

Terri L. Austin lives in Missouri with her funny, handsome husband and a high maintenance peekapoo.  She loves to hear from readers. Find her on Twitter, FB, TerriLAustin.com, Goodreads and Henery Press. She and her writer friends have a book chat every Wednesday on Little Read Hens. Check it out and join in the conversation!




Monday, November 26, 2012

Chatting with Victoria Hamilton

It is such a pleasure to have with us today Victoria Hamilton author of A Deadly Grind!

Thank you for joining us today Victoria..



Tell us about yourself.

I have been a romance writer for a long time, but I always wanted to write mysteries. And now I do! After twelve years as a romance writer (which I enjoyed and still do, on the side!) I feel like I've finally found my place in the publishing industry. Mystery readers are the BEST! THE most supportive, loyal and intelligent group, and the same goes for my colleagues, other mystery authors.
Aside from writing I love cooking, crafts and collecting china and kitchenware. I adore cats and singing, and I'm generally a very fortunate person, with family and friends who are wonderful to me.
 
 What inspired you to write this book?
 
Plain and simple, I was casting about for a publishable idea for a cozy mystery series, so I took something I know and love, vintage kitchenware (the Hoosier in A Deadly Grind is based on my own antique kitchen cabinet!) and built a series based on a collector of vintage kitchenware! Otherwise, the plot and characters sort of 'grew' in my mind as I took bits and pieces from here and there... it is exactly as amorphous as it sounds!
 
What are you working on next in this series?
 
Bowled Over, Book 2 of the Vintage Kitchen Mysteries (following A Deadly Grind) and Jaymie Leighton's next adventure, comes out March 5th, 2013, and Book 3, Picked for Murder follows in the Autumn. But I'm also working on two more mystery series for Berkley, so I'm very busy! I'm finally doing what I've wanted to do my whole, life, and it's so exciting!

 If you could have dinner with any character from a book who would it be and why?
 
Okay, is it going to sound weird if I say Aslan, from C. S. Lewis's The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe? Who wouldn't want to sit down to dinner with a wise, lovely, talking lion? (As long as you weren't the entree.) Or Miss Marple, from Agatha Christie's novels. I always wanted to talk to that woman; she seemed to understand the darker side of human nature so well and that would come in handy as a mystery author.
 
What book are you reading now?
 
Right now I am reading M. C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin mystery A Spoonful of Poison. I love Agatha Raisin... so cranky and self-centered, so imperfect in every way!
 

Read A Deadly Grind, Book 1 of my new nationally bestselling cozy series, Vintage Kitchen Mysteries from Berkley Prime Crime.
 
Thank you again for visiting today. Come on every leave a comment here for Victoria!!
 

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Christmas Themed Mysteries

With Christmas just a few weeks away and with the help of my friends I have come up with a list of Christmas Themed books for you all to enjoy!

THE CHRISTMAS COOKIE KILLER - Livia J. Washburn
THE CLUE IS IN THE PUDDING - Kate Kingsbury
A CATERED CHRISTMAS- Isis Crawford
THE TWELVE CLUS OF CHRISTMAS - Rhys Bowen
WEDDING CAKE KILLER- Livia J. Washburn
HOLIDAY BUZZ-Cleo Coyle
HOLIDAY GRIND- Cleo Coyle
FLEECE NAVIDAD- Maggie Sefton
CHRISTMAS COOKIE MURDER- Leslie Meier
THE GINGERBREAD BUMPOFF- Livia J. Washburn
RINGING IN MURDER- Kate Kingsbury
HERALD OF DEATH-Kate Kingsbury
DECKED WITH FOLLY-Kate Kingsbury
SLAY BELLS-Kate Kingsbury
MISTLETOE AND MAYHEM-Kate Kingsbury
SHROUDS OF HOLLY-Kate Kingsbury
MISTLETOE MURDER- Leslie Meier
PLUM PUDDING MURDER- Joanne Fluke
GRAVE APPEAL-Ellen Byerrum
ON STRIKE FOR CHRISTMAS- Sheila Roberts

That's all I have for now, but leave me a comment if you have more to add!

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Thursday First

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!

                   Adrift on St. John  by Rebecca M. Hale

the first book of the Mystery in the Islands Series


Overview

No one knows better than resort manager Pen Hoffstra that the idea of a tropical paradise is an illusion. So when a young woman named Hannah Sheridan disappears off the island of St. John, she is not surprised that all is not what it seems to be. Pointing out Hannah's resemblance to the Amina Slave Princess from the 1733 slave revolt on St. John--whose ghost is rumored to haunt the island--the local community quickly latches on to the belief that her spirit is behind the sinking and the disappearance...


This is a great book! Check it out if you haven't already!

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Author Shout Out --Heather Webber

Hey every one HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

Todays Shoutout goes to Heather Webber!!!!!!!!!




Overview from book One!!!!!

Lucy Valentine is as smart as can be, as single as you can get, and so not qualified to run a matchmaking service. But when her parents temporarily step down from the family business, Valentine, Inc., it’s Lucy’s turn to step up and help out—in the name of love.
Plus, her rent is due.
Here’s the problem: Lucy doesn’t have the knack for matchmaking. According to family legend, every Valentine has been blessed by Cupid with the ability to read “auras” and pair up perfect couples. But not Lucy. Her skills were zapped away years ago in an electrical surge, and now all she can do is find lost objects. What good is that in the matchmaking world? You’d be surprised. In a city like Boston, everyone’s looking for something. So when Lucy locates a missing wedding ring—on a dead body—she asks the sexy private eye who lives upstairs to help her solve the perfect crime. And who knows? Maybe she’ll find the perfect love while she’s at it…

Thanks for a great series Heather!!!!!

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Book Release Tuesday!!

Janet Evanovich's 19th Stephanie Plum Book is here!!!!



#1 bestselling author Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels are: “irresistible” (Houston Chronicle), “stunning” (Booklist), “outrageous” (Publishers Weekly), “brilliantly evocative” (The Denver Post), and “making trouble and winning hearts” (USA Today).
 
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is certain of three truths: People don’t just vanish into thin air. Never anger old people. And don’t do what Tiki tells you to do.
 
After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie’s bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton’s premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Now it’s on Stephanie to track down the con man. Unfortunately, Cubbin has disappeared without a trace, a witness, or his money-hungry wife. Rumors are stirring that he must have had help with the daring escape . . . or that maybe he never made it out of his room alive. Since the hospital staff’s lips seem to be tighter than the security, and it’s hard for Stephanie to blend in to assisted living, Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur goes in undercover. But when a second felon goes missing from the same hospital, Stephanie is forced into working side by side with Trenton’s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, in order to crack the case.

The real problem is, no Cubbin also means no way to pay the rent. Desperate for money—or maybe just desperate—Stephanie accepts a secondary job guarding her secretive and mouthwatering mentor Ranger from a deadly Special Forces adversary. While Stephanie is notorious for finding trouble, she may have found a little more than she bargained for this time around. Then again—a little food poisoning, some threatening notes, and a bridesmaid’s dress with an excess of taffeta never killed anyone . . . or did they? If Stephanie Plum wants to bring in a paycheck, she’ll have to remember: No guts, no glory. . . .


Get it today at your local bookstore!!!!!!

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Thursday First

It's that time again and today our Thursday First is..



                                 Abby Cooper Psychic Eye!!!!



Abby Cooper is a P.I., psychic intuitive. But her insight failed her when she didn't foresee the death of one of her clients-or that the lead investigator for the case is the gorgeous blind date she just met. Now, with the police suspicious of her abilities and a killer on the loose, Abby's future looks more uncertain than ever.

Clues are what every investigator needs to succeed...and that's where Abby Cooper has an unorthodox edge. You see, sometimes, like it or not, clues just come to her. Abby is a different sort of P.I. She's not a private detective, she's a psychic intuitive…working with a crew of spirit guides to offer her clients the benefit of her glimpses into their future. She believes that free will is the only weapon against the destiny her visions reveal; she also believes that foreknowledge can give a person the power to change the future events she sees.
Of course, with such power comes responsibility, especially when what Abby sees is a matter of life and death! When Abby's talent gives her insights into the plans of a serial killer, she faces double jeopardy. She's determined to stop the killing…and that means finding a way to convince the authorities that she's neither a kook nor a killer. Unfortunately, in her line of work, proof can be remarkably hard to come by, until it's too late. And the danger grows when the killer proves easier to convince than the cops.
The author's bio for Victoria Lange reveals that this talented writer is a psychic medium who has assisted police in cold-case investigations. I, for one, can't wait to see what the future holds for the fascinating Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye mystery series. Sue Stone

Meet the Author

Real-life professional psychic Victoria Laurie drew from her career as a gifted clairvoyant and police psychic to create the character of Abigail Cooper. She lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, with her two spoiled dachshunds, Lilly and Toby. For information about upcoming novels and appointments for readings, visit her Web site at www.VictoriaLaurie.com.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Author Shout out --HANNAH REED

Hiya Everyone, been away for a couple days, good to be back and what better way to start again with author Shout out!!!

Today goes out to.......

                                    HANNAH REED

Some of her books include The Queen Bee Mystery Series :





 Beeline to Trouble is due to be released on Dec 4th. So you have time to read this amazing series if you havent already!!!! Check it out, you will love it!!!!!!

Thanks Hannah for a fabulous series !!!!!!!!!! Look forward to many more!

Thursday, November 8, 2012

thursday's first

It's Thursday again and we have another Thursday First...

Today it is Maggie Seftons..Knit One Kill Two (knitting mystery series#1)


Overview

Kelly Flynn never picked up a pair of knitting needles she liked—until she strolled into House of Lambspun. Now, in the first in a brand-new series, she learns how to knit one, purl two, and untangle the mystery behind her aunt's murder

Meet the Author



Maggie Sefton is the author of the Knitting mysteries and a series set in the world of real estate. An avid knitter herself, she lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

If you havent read this series, you are missing out on a lovely group of people. You will so fall in love with each one. You dont have to be a knitter to love it,  so go and check it out today.

Leave a message if you have enjoyed this series as much as I have.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Author Spotlight -- Laura Levine


Hey everyone Today's Author Shout out is going to Laura Levine!!!!!!  Check out her books she is really good!!!!!!!!


Overview
On the mean streets of Beverly Hills, freelance writer and chocoholic Jaine Austen battles crime--and cellulite. When Jaine's cat accidentally gives her neighbor's parakeet a heart attack, she becomes her neighbor's enemy. Then she's the #1 suspect when her neighbor is found dead.
In Levine’s whimsical 11th mystery featuring L.A. freelance writer Jaine Austen (after 2011’s Pampered to Death), our scatterbrained, sugar-addicted heroine; her demanding cat, Prozac; and nosy shoe salesman Lance Venable all fall head over heels for their new neighbor, Peter Connor. Unclear on Peter’s sexual preference, Jaine and Lance outdo each other trying to impress the handsome book editor. Peter’s arrival even brings the curmudgeonly neighborhood “witch,” forgotten TV actress Eleanor Jenkins, better known as Cryptessa Muldoon, out of her cluttered house. Already facing a suit in small claims court for the death of Cryptessa’s beloved parakeet, Van Helsing, Jaine falls even deeper into trouble—and under police suspicion—when the one-time star turns up on Halloween night stabbed to death with her own Do Not Trespass sign. Cozy fans will enjoy seeing how Jaine wiggles out of this one. Agent: Evan Marshall, the Evan Marshall Agency. (Sept.)
Biography
Laura Levine is a former sitcom writer (The Bob Newhart Show, Laverne & Shirley, The Love Boat, Three's Company, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman). As an advertising copywriter, she created Count Chocula and Frankenberry cereals for General Mills. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. She and her husband live in Los Angeles.

Readers are welcome to contact her at Jaineausten@aol.com or on her website at www.lauralevinemysteries.com

Monday, November 5, 2012

Chatting with Elizabeth Lynn Casey

Today we have chatting with us...

Elizabeth Lynn Casey author of Let it Sew, due to hit bookstores every where Nov 6th~~


Tell us about yourself.

I fell in love with storytelling when I was ten, and since that moment, I’ve never wanted to do or be anything else (except a mom). After spending time as a reporter in Connecticut, South Carolina, Alabama and Missouri, I turned my attention to my first writing love—fiction.

My first mystery—originally titled, JURY OF ONE, but now available in e-book as, DEADLY READINGS—was published in 2005. The next two books in that series—now known as DEADLY GETAWAY and DEADLY EXPRESSIONS—were published in 2006 and 2007 respectively. 

Although I had some nice success with this series, I set my sights on working with a New York publishing house. In 2008, I realized that dream when I secured a contract for the first three books in the Southern Sewing Circle Mystery Series (written under my pen name, Elizabeth Lynn Casey).  The first book in the series—SEW DEADLY—debuted in August, 2009. Since that day, I’ve signed contracts for sixteen more books.

Currently, the Southern Sewing Circle series has six books in circulation with the seventh title—LET IT SEW—debuting on November 5th.  The eighth book in the series has already been written and turned into my editor.

In addition to that series, I also write the new Amish Mysteries under my regular name, Laura Bradford. The first book in that series—HEARSE AND BUGGY—released in June, with the second book—ASSAULTED PRETZEL—due out in March, 2013.

When I’m not writing mysteries, I’m dabbling in romance. My most recent romance—STORYBOOK DAD—is currently available through Harlequin American.

I guess you could say I’m living my dream.  Especially since I’m a mom who gets to write.



How did you come up with the series?

The Southern Sewing Circle Mysteries are an in-house series for Berkley Prime Crime. This means that the original concept—of a sewing circle set in the south—belongs to them. Everything else comes from that place in my brain that’s always imagining people, places and adventures. The fact that I’ve written eight books so far has made these characters feel like family.

What are you working on next?

With book # 8 in the series already turned in (and not due out until August, 2013), the next contracted book in my line-up is Amish Mystery # 3. I’m also working on a women’s fiction book in my spare time.

How did you name your hero /heroine in this series?

Victoria is a strong name. It enables her to shorten it (to Tori) to suit her personality, while giving her southern friends a more formal moniker to say.


What are the first 5 books in your TBR pile?


*SUMMER PEOPLE by Elin Hilderbrand
*EXTRA CREDIT by Maggie Barbieri (this is out on Dec. 4th and I have a spot reserved for this already—can’t wait)
*A MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL by Lynn Cahoon
*NOTORIOUS NINETEEN by Janet Evanovich
*THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE AND LIGHTNING by Susan McBride (this is out Feb. 12th)


Check out the over view for Let it Sew!!

Down south, the holidays mean family—and for Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair, family means the Sweet Briar Ladies Society sewing circle. It may not be a white Christmas, but it’s one she’ll never forget—no matter how hard she tries…

Instead of spending a nice, relaxing Christmas with her fiancĂ©, Tori Sinclair has been drafted into Sweet Briar’s holiday Decorating Committee. And the season has brought sad tidings as well: Charlotte Devereaux, a sewing circle founding member who unraveled after her storybook marriage fell apart, has passed away.

Charlotte’s last days were foggy, distressed, and feverish… except for the sketches she produced. One detail in particular jumps out at Tori and leads to a shocking revelation: Charlotte’s husband didn’t leave her—he was murdered! And as she gets closer to the truth, Tori will discover that just about everyone in town has got notches on the naughty list this year.

Stop by and leave a message for Elizabeth!

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Cricket McRae is with us today.

Today we are chatting with Cricket McRae about her new book being released on Nov.6th. Deadly Row to Hoe! Stop by and leave a comment for her!



Tell us about your self.

Random smattering of facts: I live in northern Colorado with my guy and two cats, write two mystery series (the Home Crafting Mysteries for Midnight Ink and the Magical Bakery Mysteries for Penguin under the pen name Bailey Cates), garden madly for three seasons a year, and have a tendency to make a lot of things from scratch. I loved Laura Ingalls Wilder books as a kid, not because I was interested in the plot as much as the detailed descriptions of things like making soap and cheese, preserving and cooking and baking, spinning, weaving and sewing, I'm a local food nut, an only child, and have a perfectly useless but wonderful degree in philosophy. I've been a drivers license examiner, a hotel maid, a librarian and a localization program manager at Microsoft. The only food I don't like is beef liver, I prefer red wine to white no matter what I'm eating, and flying makes me nervous but I do it anyway.
How did you come up with this book and title?

Each of the Home Crafting Mysteries has a different colonial skill as the backdrop to the murder and mayhem. The second in the series, Heaven Preserve Us, was about canning garden produce for winter, but the vegetable gardening itself would have been just as important to the survival of households in earlier times. Add in my own interest in gardening and a fervent belief in buying from local farmers and community supported agriculture and it was a no brainer to set Sophie Mae's next case on a CSA farm. The working title was Digging up Darla -- just because I found it privately amusing. But that title wasn't as "punny" as the previous five books and Midnight Ink asked me to come up with something else. Deadly Row to Hoe is the result.
 What are you working on next?

I'm working on the third Magical Bakery Mystery (still kicking around titles) as well as a standalone, non-cozy mystery set in western Montana called Shotgun Moon. Both will release in 2013.
When did you start writing and what inspired you to do so?

I wrote in my journal when I was 19 that by the time I was 50 I would be a mystery writer with two mystery series and write standalones and nonfiction in between. I didn't get serious about pursuing that dream until my late 30s when I left the corporate world, but then I threw myself into my writing career. Now I'm 48, have two series, am writing a standalone and working on a proposal for a nonfiction book. So all I can say is: Write down your goals!
 What book are you reading now?

Craig Johnson's As the Crow Flies, the latest in his Walt Longmire series. I love his books (and the A&E series) in part because they are set in a part of Wyoming where my family is from. That, and his writing is smooth and accessible and literary all at once.

Thanks for visiting with us today, am looking forward to this book!
Home Crafting Mysteries
#6 Deadly Row to Hoe: November, 2012
www.cricketmcrae.com
blog: www.hearthcricket.com

And as Bailey Cates
Magical Bakery Mysteries
#1 Brownies and Broomsticks: May, 2012
#2 Bewitched, Bothered and Biscotti, December 31, 2012
www.baileycates.com




Thursday, November 1, 2012

Thursday's First!!

Todays First in a series is... ONE BAD APPLE by Sheila Connolly

Book 1 in the Orchard Series!

There's a killer in the orchard? and he's rotten to the core.

INCLUDES RECIPES

Meg Corey has come to the quaint New England town of Granford, Massachusetts, to sell her mother's old colonial home and apple orchard. Instead, she becomes embroiled in development plans that include her land-and her former flame from Boston. When he's found dead in the new septic tank on her property, the police immediately suspect Meg, whose only ally in town is the plumber Seth Chapin. Together, they'll have to peel back the layers of secrecy that surround the deal in order to find the real murderer? and save the orchard.

Check out this series, it is definatly worth reading!!!!!!

First in Series- Miss Julia Speaks her Mind by Ann B. Ross

Happy Monday! This week's First in Series is Miss Julia Speaks her Mind by Ann B. Ross Released on August 22, 2000. Seri...