Be sure to check out what they have coming next for their readers. I try to pick authors who are interesting studies and ask them unique questions for our Q/A section.
Check out the Showcase feature of the HBS Author's Spotlight. I have included those authors in this class. Thanks to the following outstanding authors for a great month. Also, we are including authors that are a part of our new feature: Boxed Sets.
Here is a summary of our December 2013 crew.
Carolyn Arnold
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Romance
Author's Blog: Carolyn Arnold
Twitter: @Carolyn_Arnold
E-Mail: carolyn@carolynarnold.net
Google+: Check Out Google+
Facebook: Check Out Facebook
What's next: Presently I am writing the third in the Brandon Fisher FBI Series called The Defenseless. The second in the series, Silent Graves, is working its way through the final edit stages with a professional and I hope to release it the start of the new year.
Social media: ...relationships to me are very important. These are primarily other writers who know what I’m going through, who struggle with the same challenges. I consider these people friends even though the majority I’ve never met face to face.
Covers: When it comes to my cover creative process, I try to go for the feel of the book and match that to a color that creates that energy. From there, my husband makes it happen for me. I’m very spoiled to live with a graphic designer.
Trailers: I’m not sure how much impact book trailers actually have on sales. In all honesty, I’ve never bought a book because of one.
Short stories: I believe that short stories can be utilized as a marketing tool. In fact, I recently made Pearls of Deception, my mystery short, permanently free. It provides the reader with entertainment and gives them a taste of my writing style.
Free Books: Free promotions should always been done with the intention of hooking new readers. I believe it’s a terrific tool to introduce your work, but at the same time shouldn’t be overused.
Author's Book List
Found Innocent
Life Sentence
Sacrifice
Justified
Ties That Bind
Assassination of a Dignitary
Eleven
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Susan M. Boyer
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Romance, Literature & Fiction
Author's Blog: Susan M. Boyer
Website: Susan M. Boyer
Twitter: @susanmboyer
E-Mail: susan@susanmboyerbooks.com
Facebook: Check Out Facebook
What's next: The next book in the Liz Talbot series, LOWCOUNTRY BONEYARD will release in September of 2014. Liz has a new case to solve in LOWCOUNTRY BONEYARD.
Social media: I think building social media relationships is pretty important. Also, it’s fun. I enjoy interacting with the interesting people I’ve met through Twitter and Facebook.
Writer support groups: I’m laughing here because I may need an intervention. I’m addicted to writers’ organizations. Aside from Romance Writers of America, I’m a member of Sisters in Crime, Private Eye Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, South Carolina Writers Workshop… I feel like I’m missing a few.
Short stories: I don’t think the short stories have impacted the sales of the novels. They were all published years before the novels. Honestly, I wrote the short stories when I was learning the business of publishing and someone had told me I needed to get a few short stories published before I tried to sell my first novel.
Blog: Honestly, I feel as though of all the things I do, the blog is the thing that most often gets pushed to the back burner, because there are so many things to be done and a limited amount of time.
Reviews: My publisher sends out review copies and makes the eBooks available on Net Galley. Also, I do a blog tour when the book is released, and those typically result in reviews.
Author's Book List
Lowcountry Bombshell
Lowcountry Boil
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Ed James
Author Genre: Crime, Thriller
Website: ed james crime fiction author
Twitter: @EdJamesAuthor
E-Mail: edjamesauthor@gmail.com
Facebook: Check Out Facebook
What's next: The next two books I’m going to do are book five and six in the Scot Cullen series.
Book six will be Cowboys and Indians and will be set largely in Edinburgh. Most of my books have tended to wander a bit…
Social media: It’s been really important to me. I’ve had so many fans that I’ve met through Twitter mainly - Facebook terrifies me - including my current editor.
Covers: The covers were done in collaboration with my girlfriend (i.e. unmarried partner!). I’m not much of a photographer or a designer. Broadly, we looked through her collection of photos from the last few years and found shots that matched particular books, e.g. the shot along the promenade in Portobello which is Edinburgh’s seaside district and also where Cullen lives.
Free books: The main goal was to get a profile and get people interested in the subsequent books. I think that’s working, though the pick-up rate from GHOST to DEVIL is something like 5%, which tells me that a lot of the freebie people tend to hoard eBooks. That said, I’ve got pretty healthy sales, so that number of people that love Ghost seem to buy the remainder.
Blog: I try to focus at least 80% of it on the writing, but try to do the blog and newsletter whenever I’ve got a break. I don’t think I’m spending enough time doing it justice but I try to keep it fresh.
Newsletter: It’s more to keep the long-term readers informed of what I’m doing, when stuff’s coming out but also give them something more. For example, I deleted a chapter from the start of Dyed in the Wool and published it through the newsletter, which was well received. I get a lot of good feedback from my readers from it and I enjoy doing it.
Other languages: I’m going to do a German edition, hopefully early next year. My audience there is actually not too bad, with sales over 100 - astonishing when you consider that’s probably foreign language readers…
Author's Book List
Shot Through The Heart
Dyed in the Wool
Fire in the Blood
Devil in the Detail
Ghost in the Machine
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John A. A. Logan
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Short Stories
Author's Blog: John A. A. Logan
Website: John A. A. Logan - Author
Twitter: @JohnAALogan
Google+: Check Out Google+
Facebook: Check Out Facebook
Next: I’m nearing completion on a new novel, Agency Woman, with release planned for early 2014. This is a psychological thriller set in the Highlands of Scotland.
Social media importance: Yes, 54131 followers now on Twitter. It has taken two years to get to that point. I’ve certainly found readers on Twitter, good people, good connections, sometimes leading to friendships and correspondences. Lots of times I’ve had readers of my ebooks contact me there, letting me know their thoughts, so it has been a very important thing.
Personal appearances: For announcements of future events/appearances, please sign up for my blog (lots of other resources/info/tips for authors and readers there on the blog, too): http://johnaalogan.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/the-story-of-the-survival-of-thomas-ford/
Covers: I spend a lot of time finding a photo/image that I am completely happy with and which I feel represents the spirit of the book. That’s a private, instinctive thing so I don’t show anyone else the cover until the day the book is published/uploaded. I don’t involve anyone else, that way there is no-one to blame but myself if it goes wrong!
Bundling a series of short stories: ... two literary agents I signed up with over the years had always told me they are impossible to sell, they were only interested in my novels.
With epublishing, though, I wanted to test that negative theory. I had nine unpublished short stories which had been written as a series over two years and formed an organic whole, so I put them together with one story which had previously been published by Picador.
Last month was the first when sales of that short story collection, Storm Damage, exceeded sales of the novel, and this was the result of a Bookbub promotion for Storm Damage at the end of October, which I blogged about here: http://authorselectric.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/bookbub-experiment-3-storm-damage-by.html
Support groups: I’ve been a member of Authors Electric for nearly 2 years now. The 28 members each blog monthly there, the blog gets about 18000 views a month.
UK sales: … because I market online and only sell ebooks this means my biggest audience is in the U.S. But then again, that still leaves a large audience in the rest of the world, and in the UK, and in Scotland locally too. But when I pay for a Bookbub advert I know this means that by far most of the downloads will be in the U.S. Sometimes it’s unpredictable though. On a couple of promotions for The Survival of Thomas Ford, UK sales far exceeded US sales.
Author's Book List
Storm Damage
The Survival of Thomas Ford
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Darren Sant
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Humor, Horror
Author's Blog: Daz's Reviews
Website: Darren Sant - Writer
Twitter: @Longcroft_Tales
E-Mail: dazzasaint@gmail.com
Facebook: Check Out Facebook
What's next: My novella The Bank Manager and the Bum was something of a gamble. However, it seems to have paid off, with 31 positive UK reviews since release in June.
With National Novel Writing Month in November I have decided to write a follow up to it.
Social media: I’d equate social media to being at a party where you are slightly uneasy with the host, but you feel obliged to attend or people will wonder why. Social media in general is a great way of connecting with people and I’ve met some fantastic people through it, but there are also so many negatives to be endured alongside the positives. I try not to overdo it when I have a book launch. A few tweets here and there are about all I do.
Covers: I have to make a distinction here between my Longcroft books, which are published by Byker Books, and my self-published work. Byker are very much in tune with my work and I leave the concept for the covers in their more than capable hands. As for my self-published releases a super talented chap called Steven Miscandlon designs the covers. I give him a couple of vague ideas about what I want and leave it to him. His work is top notch and he is speedy.
Short stories: I’ll be honest in saying that my collection of short stories, Dark Voices, does not sell as well as the Longcroft Tales. Dark Voices was more an attempt to put together a body of work that I have worked on in the last few years. It’s well known that story collections do not sell as well as longer fiction, unless you are Stephen King, of course.
Free books: Most writers hate the idea of giving away their work for free but one has to think of the big picture. There are millions of kindle users out there. Promotions work if tackled in the right way. A well-targeted freebie campaign can lead to very healthy sales after the campaign and positive reviews, which aid sales in the long term.
UK audience: The kind of story I tell lends itself to a British audience, although, The Bank Manager and the Bum is getting some good reviews from US readers at the moment. Marketing online does help to get a larger, global, audience.
Burning Bridges project: There’s an interesting story behind Burning Bridges. A large number of authors, including me, were taken in by a less than reputable publisher, whose name I won’t mention except to say they are currently being sued to the tune of $750,000 dollars. A group of us got together and decided to create a positive from a negative and raise some money for charity whilst burning our metaphorical bridges in print. The driving forces behind creating this anthology were Heath Lowrance and Luis Vera.
Author's Book List
Shattered Hearts and Broken Glass
Moonchild's Sins
Dark Voices
The Bank Manager and the Bum
Tales From The Longcroft 2
Radgepacket
Tales From The Longcroft
Radgepacket
Burning Bridges
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R.P. Dahlke
Featured Book: The Dead Red Mystery Series - Boxed Set
Author Genre: Mystery, Romance, Humor
Author's Blog: R.P. Dahlke - Infrequent Blog
Website: R.P. Dahlke
Twitter: @rpdahlke
E-Mail: rp@rpdahlke.com
Facebook: Check Out Facebook
Author's Book List
The Dead Red Mystery Series - Boxed Set
Hurricane Hole
A Dead Red Oleander
A DANGEROUS HARBOR
A DEAD RED HEART
A DEAD RED CADILLAC
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Jade Kerrion
Featured Book: Eternal Knights
Author Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Website: Jade Kerrion
Twitter: @JadeKerrion
E-Mail: jade.kerrion@gmail.com
Facebook: Check Out Facebook
Author's Book List
Eternal Night
EARTH-SIM
When the Silence Ends
Perfect Weapon
Perfect Betrayal
Perfection Unleashed
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Gary Ponzo
Featured Book: Saving the World
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
Author's Blog: Strong Scenes
Website: GaryPonzo.com
Twitter: @AuthorPonzo
E-Mail: gary@garyponzo.com
Facebook: Check Out Facebook
Author's Book List
Saving the World
A Touch of Malice
A Touch of Deceit
A Touch of Greed
A Touch of Revenge
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Featured Set: Holiday Heat
Available at Amazon: Holiday Heat
Title: WRAPPED & SEALED
Author Genre: Thriller, Suspense, Romance
Website: Leslie Kelly
Twitter: @lesliekelly
E-Mail: lkellyauthormail @ gmail . com
Goodreads: Check Out Goodreads
Facebook: Check Out Facebook
Pinterest: Check Out Pinterest
Author Description:
Leslie A. Kelly is a New York Times bestselling author who has written more than fifty books in various genres. She currently writes contemporary romances under the name Leslie Kelly, and dark thrillers as Leslie A. Kelly.
She is the author of the futuristic Veronica Sloan thriller series, and of the dark romantic suspense Black CATs series.
Title: SEDUCING SANTA
Author Genre: Romance
Website: Janelle Denison
Author's Blog: The Plotmonkeys
Twitter: @janelledenison
Goodreads: Check Out Goodreads
Facebook: Check Out Facebook
Pinterest: Check Out Pinterest
Author Description:
Janelle Denison is a USA Today bestselling author of over fifty sensual contemporary romance novels who has written for Harlequin Blaze, Kensington Brava, Berkley and St. Martin's Press. She is a two-time recipient of the National Reader's Choice award, and has also been nominated for the prestigious RITA award.
Originally a California native, she now calls Oregon home. She resides in the Portland area with her husband and daughters and can't imagine a more beautiful place to live. When not writing, she can be found exploring the great Northwest, from the gorgeous beaches to the amazing waterfalls and lush mountains.
Title: MIDNIGHT ANGEL
Author Genre: Romance
Website: Carly Phillips
Author's Blog: The Plotmonkeys
Twitter: @carlyphillips
E-Mail: carlyphillipsauthor@gmail.com
Goodreads: Check Out Goodreads
Facebook: Check Out Facebook
Author Description:
N.Y. Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Carly Phillips has written over 40 sexy contemporary romance novels that today's readers identify with and enjoy. After a successful 15 year career with various New York publishing houses, Carly is making the leap to Indie author, with the goal of giving her readers more books at a faster pace at a better price. Her Serendipity books will still finish up in January/February 2014 via Berkley as planned. Carly lives in Purchase, NY with her family, two nearly adult daughters and two crazy dogs who star on her Facebook Fan Page and website. She's a writer, a knitter of sorts, a wife, and a mom. In addition, she's a Twitter and Internet junkie and is always around to interact with her readers.
Title: DIRTY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
Author Genre: Romance
Website: Julie Leto
Twitter: @JulieLeto
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Facebook: Check Out Facebook
Author Description:
I don’t have a stepmother, have never been blonde and wouldn’t know how to clean a fireplace if ashes were stacked to the flue. But my road to publication didn’t come overnight or without a lot of disappointment. Yes, I have my Prince Charming (and a little Princess to boot), but other than that, Cinderella and I have nothing in common. Of course, my becoming published did have a lot to do with finding the perfect fit, so who knows? Maybe I do have a fairy godmother somewhere out there.
Born and raised in Florida to a close-knit family of Italian and Cuban descent, I learned never to give up or give in—especially when in pursuit of a lifelong dream. I worked over eight years before Harlequin Temptation bought my first book. But what an adventure it was!
A romance reader from age 16, I knew what kind of stories I wanted to write. I started my first romance in 1988 while in graduate school. Soon after, I joined the workforce as an English teacher in Catholic school, which people always get a kick out of. I wrote at night and on weekends. During breaks. I grabbed every free moment I could.
In 1996, I retired from teaching, joined my family’s manufacturing business and gave myself more time to write. “The call” from Harlequin came in March of 1997 with an offer to publish SEDUCING SULLIVAN, my fourth completed novel.
I discovered my niche with Temptation’s sensuous, sexy tone and character-driven stories. My desire to “push the envelope” worked even better when Harlequin launched the new Blaze series, longer books that gave me the freedom to explore sensual stories with a more intricate plot. In 2003, I sold my first single title series to Pocket’s Downtown Press, which is female action-adventure with a hot romance storyline. I’ve written novellas for Pocket, Signet and Harlequin. In 2008, I launched a three-book series of paranormal romances and also wrote one of the first-ever “real life” romances for HCI/True Vows in 2010. In 2011, Harlequin published my first ever three-book, back-to-back series, Legendary Lovers. I’m also in the middle of digitally re-releasing several of my backlist books myself. No rest for the weary!
Featured Set: Working Girls ... Do It For Thrills
Available at Amazon: Working Girls ... Do It For Thrills
Title: IRREPARABLE HARM
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Short Stories
Website: Melissa F. Miller, Author of Fast-Paced Thrillers
Twitter: @melissafmiller
Goodreads: Check Out Goodreads
Google+: Check Out Google+
Facebook: Check Out Facebook
Author Description:
I'm Melissa F. Miller, author of the Sasha McCandless legal thriller series and a practicing attorney. When I'm not in court or on the playground with my three delightful children, I'm hard at work on my next novel.
Title: GUARANTEED JUSTICE
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Website: M.A. Comley
Twitter: @Melcom1
Goodreads: Check Out Goodreads
Facebook: Check Out Facebook
Pinterest: Check Out Pinterest
Author Description:
Independent writers have known for some time that the publishing world is changing. No longer do writers have to await the whim of an agent and then a publisher before their cherished work sees the light of day.
This is a double edged sword, of course. It means that a lot of drivel is out there on Kindle and self-published. But it also means that complete gems have come to the attention of readers who would never have had the chance to read the author concerned. Some of these authors have attracted the attention of agents who, attracted by the author’s sales figures, have decided to jump in and offer a contract before someone else does.One of these authors is Mel Comley, a Brit living in rural France. Ms Comley gave up her job in retail a decade ago and, in the wake of a traumatic divorce, moved with her mother to a country they had never even previously visited.
After renovating a few houses, she decided on a different path. Ms Comley took a creative writing course, following her life’s dream, and began to write.
Months turned into years and she, at first, saw little success. Rejection followed rejection.
But if there is something to be said about Ms Comley, it is her solid work ethic and her determination never to give up. “It’s tough when you’re first starting out. You have no idea if you’re any good. I started off writing romances and I had a good response from Mills and Boon for one, but then I decided to change tack to thrillers.”
She uploaded her new crime novel, Impeding Justice, to the wannabe writer site, Authonomy and waged a fierce campaign, spending all day, every day, in front of her computer to get her novel to the top of the chart and under the gaze of a Harper Collins.
Authonomy is a networking site as much as a talent site and Mel worked hard to see that her story of a British female cop chasing down murder, kidnap and human trafficking was as recognised as it should have been.
Title: BLACK DIAMOND DEATH
Author Genre: Mystery/Thriller fiction novels
Website: Cheryl Bradshaw
Author's Blog: A Place to Embrace our Love of Books
Twitter: @cherylbradshaw
E-Mail: cherylbradshawbooks@hotmail.com
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Facebook: Check Out Facebook
Pinterest: Check Out Pinterest
Author Description:
Born and raised in Southern California, Cheryl Bradshaw became interested in writing at a young age, but it was almost two decades before she put pen to paper. In 2009 Bradshaw wrote Black Diamond Death (Book One: Sloane Monroe series). Within six weeks it entered the top #100 in two different categories and remained in the top #100 for over a year.
Since that time, she has written two more novels in the series and is working on the fourth as well as other projects she currently has in the works. In August 2012, Bradshaw was named one of Twitter's seven best authors to follow. Bradshaw is also the founder of IWU on Facebook, a writers group with almost 1,400 members.
Title: CONCRETE EVIDENCE
Author Genre: Romance, Suspense
Website: Rachel Grant
Author's Blog: Kiss and Thrill
Twitter: @rachelsgrant
E-Mail: contact@rachel-grant.net
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Facebook: Check Out Facebook
Author Description:
Four-time Golden Heart® finalist Rachel Grant worked for over a decade as a professional archaeologist and mines her experiences for storylines and settings, which are as diverse as excavating a cemetery underneath an historic art museum in San Francisco, survey and excavation of many prehistoric Native American sites in the Pacific Northwest, researching an historic concrete house in Virginia, and mapping a seventeenth century Spanish and Dutch fort on the island of Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles.
She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and children and can be found on the website.
Title: BADWATER
Author Genre: Science Thriller, Forensic Mystery, Environmental Fiction
Website: Toni Dwiggins - Mystery /Thriller Author
Twitter: @ToniDwiggins
Goodreads: Check Out Goodreads
Google+: Check Out Google+
Facebook: Check Out Facebook
Author Description:
I'm a third-generation Californian who migrated from southern Cal to northern Cal. What I like most about my state is that one can go from the ocean to the mountains in one day, with a lunch stop in the desert. I like it so much I've set my forensic geology books in those settings.
I'm author of a US History textbook, and have contributed to texts in the sciences. I've done tech-writing for the Silicon Valley computer industry, and that experience hatched an idea that became my first novel, about an attempt to sabotage the nation's telephone system.
I went in a different direction with the Forensic Geology Series, taking mystery into outdoor adventure and thriller territory.
Title: SECTOR C
Author Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author's Blog: Phoenix Sullivan
Twitter: @PhoenixSullivan
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Google+: Check Out Google+
Facebook: Check Out Facebook
Author Description:
Over the years, Phoenix Sullivan's short stories have been published under her real name in various pro anthologies and magazines. Marion Zimmer Bradley was her first editor. In the corporate world, Phoenix was a professional writer and editor for 23 years. Before that, she was a registered veterinary technician, working with small animal clinics and wildlife rehab centers.
To be first to find out about upcoming new releases by Phoenix, sign up for the monthly Fresh Leaves newsletter at www.steelmagnoliapress.com.
Featured Set: A Fatal Four-Pack
Available at Amazon: A Fatal Four-Pack
Title: Still Life With Murder
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
Website: Patricia Ryan
Twitter: @Patricia_Ryan_
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Pinterest: Check Out Pinterest
Author Description:
I was seven when I got my first set of oil paints for Christmas, and from that point on, I was an obsessive-compulsive art geek. But like most of my novelist colleagues, I also wrote a lot while I was growing up–short stories, but also plays and teleplays, often in collaboration with my twin sister, Pam (she’s the evil one). Many of the latter were Star Trek scripts in which Mr. Spock overcomes his lack of emotions to find true love, usually with someone a lot like me, but without the braces, glasses, and preadolescent complexion issues.
My subject matter had evolved into garden-variety late-adolescent angst by the time I started attending SUNY Stony Brook, where I was lucky enough to be taught creative writing by novelist/screenwriter Richard “No adverbs!” Price. But I was still pretty much hung up on art, so after a couple of years, I transferred to the San Francisco Art Institute.
Upon returning to New York after graduation, I learned that a resume that lists a BFA in painting and a couple of menial college jobs produces more snickers than offers on the part of prospective employers. My solution, for some reason, was to trade my paint-crusted jeans and T-shirts for panty hose and a business suit so that I could labor seventy hours a week as a paralegal in a high-powered Manhattan sweatsh– uh, law firm. When I’d enjoyed about as much of that as I could stand, I took a gigundo pay cut to switch to publishing, where I ended up as promotion manager for a small division of a large NYC publishing house (now sadly defunct) called Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Title: Loose Screw
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
Website: Rae Davies mystery author
Author's Blog: Rae Davies mystery author
Twitter: @LoriDevoti
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Pinterest: Check Out Pinterest
Author Description:
Rae Davies is the pen name of multi-published author Lori Devoti.
Lori worked for three different newspapers in two different states before deciding to stay home with her children and begin writing fiction. Lori has been a finalist for many awards including the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award and is a member of Novelists Inc., a prestigious group for professional writers. She lives near Madison, Wisconsin with her husband and children as well as two dogs.
Like Lucy, Lori/Rae loves antiques, Montana and malamutes. (Although don't tell her husky or aussie/puggle mix that last part.)
Title: Murder On The Mind
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
Website: NYTimes bestselling author L.L. Bartlett
Author's Blog: Lorna Barrett writing as Lorranine Bartlett
Twitter: @LLBartlettbooks
E-Mail: llb@llbartlett.com
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Facebook: Check Out Facebook
Pinterest: Check Out Pinterest
Author Description:
The immensely popular Booktown Mystery series is what put L.L. Bartlett’s pen name Lorna Barrett on the New York Times Bestseller list, but it’s her talent — whether writing as Lorna, or L.L. Bartlett, or Lorraine Bartlett — that keeps her there. This multi-published, Agatha-nominated author pens the exciting Jeff Resnick Mysteries as well as the acclaimed Victoria Square Mystery series and has many short stories and novellas to her name(s).
L.L. Bartlett has done it all–from drilling holes for NASA, to typing scripts in Hollywood. She has also been a copy editor, an MSDS coordinator, a data-entry clerk, a secretary, a used-book seller, an antiques dealer, and an Administrative Assistant. In her writing life she has been a man, a woman, a scientist, an investigator, a cop, a bookseller, a jilted bride, a widower, a doctor, a nurse, a car, an extraterrestrial, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Title: Murder Passes The Buck
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Humor, Parenting & Families
Author's Blog: Mystery Author Deb Baker
Twitter: @debbaker1
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Facebook: Check Out Facebook
Author Description:
Bestselling, award-winning author Deb Baker writes the hilarious Gertie Johnson mystery series set in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. A native Yooper herself, Deb brings her blend of humor and sass to everything she writes, including the Queen Bee Mysteries, written under her pen name Hannah Reed. Get to know more about her (them?) at: http://deb-baker.blogspot.com and http://queenbeemystery.com
Deb, along with mystery authors Julie Hyzy (aka N.C. Hyzy) and Lorraine Bartlett (aka Lorna Barret/L.L. Bartlett), have created a group called THE STORY SISTERS. Join us at our gathering place with other lovers of all things bookish.
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