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. Also, we have added the Author Bundles we have posted this month.
Thanks to the following outstanding authors for a great month. Here is a summary of our October 2015 crew.
M.J. Schiller
Author Genre: Romance
Author's Blog: MJ Schiller Tumblr Account
Website: MJ Schiller, Romance Author
Twitter: @mjschiller
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Next: Romantic suspense titled HOMETOWN HEARTACHE, due out in February
Social media: Through social media I’ve met a whole slew of other writers and they are some of the nicest people going, as proven by you. A lot of work went into this post, for someone you’ve never met. That’s pretty incredible!
Great covers: Thank you! I really admire my cover artist, Steven Novak (www.novakillustration.com). We work closely together when creating a cover. I give him an idea of what I’m looking for, sometimes even include images. He sends back a cover and we work from there. I did actually get my readers involved in my latest cover. I wanted something on the cover for BLACKOUT to represent apartments, as a lot of the scenes take place in New York City. I couldn’t find any images I liked online, so I went out to an old building in town and took shots that I had readers vote on. Their favorite, and mine, ended up on the cover, a shot from the top of a staircase looking down through the middle.
Great collection trailer: I thank you, and my kids thank you. Three out of four of my kids did trailers for me. I basically told them what I wanted, and they handled the technical side. Some of their creativity comes out in them, too. To view trailer, Click here.
Bundling a series of novels: Series are very popular, especially with romance readers, who are some of the most voracious readers out there. I only have one true series (which follows one set of characters) and the rest are collections, bundled by theme only. The idea is that if a reader likes one book in the collection, they might enjoy the others as well.
Giveaways: I like giving away the first book in a series or collection. That way I can entice a reader into wanting more, hopefully. Amazon makes you jump through a lot of hoops to get your book to free. I guess I can’t blame them. They’re getting no profit from that book. However, if it increases the profit in the other books, then it is a worthwhile strategy for both me and the retailer.
Reader list: With the advent of self-publishing, there is a glut of books on the market. That means a writer has to work even harder to get their name out there. I spend as much time as possible doing that, without taking too much time away from my writing, as that is what it is all really about to begin with.
Great blog: Well, I’ll tell you what, I kind of got a running start at this thing. I wrote twelve novels before I even started thinking about publishing. And as far as the blog, putting a blog post together doesn’t take as much time now as it once did. I’ve got the swing of it
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BLACKOUT
DAMAGE DONE
THE HEART TEACHES BEST
UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR
LADY OF THE KNIGHT
LEAP INTO THE KNIGHT
ROCK ME, GENTLY
BETWEEN ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
ABANDON ALL HOPE
TRAPPED UNDER ICE
AN UNCOMMON LOVE
TAKEN BY STORM
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Carolyn Arnold
Featured Book: Blue Baby
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Romance
Author's Blog: Carolyn Arnold Newsletter
Website: Carolyn Arnold
Twitter: @Carolyn_Arnold
E-Mail: carolyn@carolynarnold.net
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CAROLYN ARNOLD is the international best-selling and award-winning author of the Madison Knight, Brandon Fisher, and McKinley Mystery series. She is the only author with POLICE PROCEDURALS RESPECTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.™
Carolyn was born in a small town, but that doesn’t keep her from dreaming big. And on par with her large dreams is her overactive imagination that conjures up killers and cases to solve. She currently lives in a city near Toronto with her husband and two beagles, Max and Chelsea. She is also a member of Crime Writers of Canada.
Author's Book List
Blue Baby
Coffee is Murder
Valentine's Day is Murder
The Defenseless
Christmas is Murder
Shopping is Murder
Just Cause
Family is Murder
Politics is Murder
Money is Murder
Vacation is Murder
The Day Job is Murder
Silent Graves
Found Innocent
Life Sentence
Sacrifice
Justified
Eleven
Ties That Bind
Assassination of a Dignitary
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Lauren Carr
Featured Book: Kill and Run
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
Author's Blog: Literary Wealth
Website: Lauren Carr Mystery Writer
Twitter: @TheMysteryLadie
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Lauren Carr fell in love with mysteries when her mother read Perry Mason to her at bedtime. The first installment in the Joshua Thornton mysteries, A Small Case of Murder was a finalist for the Independent Publisher Book Award.
Lauren is also the author of the Mac Faraday Mysteries, which takes place in Deep Creek Lake, Maryland. It's Murder, My Son, Old Loves Die Hard, Shades of Murder, and Blast from the Past have all been getting rave reviews from readers and reviewers. The Murders at Astaire Castle is the fifth Mac Faraday Mystery. The Lady Who Cried Murder, the sixth installment in the series will be released October 2013.
Dead on Ice introduces a new series entitled Lovers in Crime, in which Joshua Thornton will join forces with homicide detective Cameron Gates. Lauren is currently working on the next Lovers in Crime Mystery, Real Murder (coming January 2014).
The owner of Acorn Book Services, Lauren is also a publishing manager, consultant, editor, cover and layout designer, and marketing agent for independent authors. This year, fifteen books written by independent authors will be released through the management of Acorn Book Services.
Lauren is a popular speaker who has made appearances at schools, youth groups, and on author panels at conventions. She also passes on what she has learned in her years of writing and publishing by conducting workshops and teaching in community education classes.
Author's Book List
Kill and Run
Open Season for Murder
Three Days to Forever
A Wedding and a Killing
Twelve to Murder
The Lady Who Cried Murder
The Murder at Astaire Castle
Blast from the Past
Shades of Murder
Old Loves Die Hard
It's Murder, My Son
Real Murder
Dead on Ice
A Reunion to Die For
A Small Case of Murder
Authors in Bathrobes
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Sharon C. Cooper
Featured Book: A Dose of Passion
Author Genre: Romance, Romantic Suspense
Author's Blog: Sharon C. Cooper - Just Thinking
Website: Sharon Cunningham Cooper
Twitter: @Sharon_Cooper1
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Award-winning and bestselling author, Sharon C. Cooper, spent 10 years as a sheet metal worker. And while enjoying that unique line of work, she attended college in the evening and obtained her B.A. from Concordia University in Business Management with an emphasis in Communication. Sharon is a romance-a-holic - loving anything that involves romance with a happily-ever-after, whether in books, movies or real life. She writes contemporary romance, as well as romantic suspense and enjoys rainy days, carpet picnics, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. When Sharon is not writing or working, she's hanging out with her amazing husband, doing volunteer work or reading a good book (a romance of course). To read more about Sharon and her novels, visit www.sharoncooper.net
Author's Book List
A Dose of Passion
Tempting the Artist
Sin City Temptation
All You'll Ever Need
Legal Seduction
Truth or Consequences
Still the Best Woman for the Job
Rendezvous with Danger
Secret Rendezvous
Blue Roses
Something New
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Molly Greene
Featured Book: Swindle Town
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Suspense
Website: Molly Greene: Writer - Blogger & Author, Gen Delacourt Mysteries
Twitter: @mollygreene
E-Mail: authormollygreene (at) gmail (dot) com
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Hi readers! I'm a blogger and author of both fiction and non-fiction. My titles include Blog It! The author's guide to building a successful online brand (blogs based on WordPress), and the Gen Delacourt Mystery Series: Mark of the Loon, The Last Fairytale, Paint Me Gone, A Thousand Tombs, Swindle Town, Lock the Cellar Door, and Midnight at Half Moon Bay (out soon).
I currently live in the mountains outside San Diego, California, the city where I was born and raised - but I LOVE Northern California so much that I use various Bay Area locations as the setting for my fiction series. Meanwhile, I write about my life and self-publishing topics at www.molly-greene.com. Stop by and say hello!
Each Gen Delacourt Mystery works well as a standalone story…
Author's Book List
Lock the Cellar Door
Swindle Town
A Thousand Tombs
Paint Me Gone
The Last Fairytale
Mark of the Loon
Blog It! The author's guide to building a successful online brand
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Dianne Harman
Featured Book: Murder at the Cooking School
Author Genre: Romance and Literary Fiction
Author's Blog: Dianne Harman Author
Website: Dianne Harman Author
Twitter: @DianneDHarman
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Dianne Harman draws her stories and characters from a diverse business and personal background. She owned a national antique and art appraisal business for many years, left that industry, and opened two yoga centers where she taught yoga and certified yoga instructors. She's traveled extensively throughout the world and loves nothing more than cooking and playing with her new puppy, Kelly.
Being a dog lover and having attended numerous cooking schools, she couldn't resist writing about food and dogs. She is the author of three cozy mystery series: Cedar Bay, Liz Lucas, and her newest, High Desert. Each of these books contains recipes from her travels. She is also the author of the award-winning suspenseful Coyote Series.
A number of books in her cozy mystery series have been designated by Amazon as All-Stars because of their sales, and Dianne has been named by Amazon seven times as one of their most popular authors.
She invites you to visit her web site at: www.dianneharman.com and sign up for her newletters. You'll receive a free book and have a weekly chance to win an autographed boxed set of the Cedar Bay Cozy Mystery Series.
Author's Book List
Murder & The Monkey Band
Murder at the Cooking School
The Death Card
Murder in Calico Gold
Murder and Brandy Boy
Murder in the Pearl District
Murder in Cottage #6
Marriage and Murder
White Cloud Retreat
Murder at Jade Cove
Kelly's Koffee Shop
COYOTE SERIES
CORNERED COYOTE
Coyote in Provence
Blue Coyote Motel
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Denise Moncrief
Featured Book: The Memory Catcher
Author Genre: Romance, Mystery & Thrillers
Author's Blog: Suspense, She Writes
Website: Denise Moncrief - Suspense, She Writes
Twitter: @dmoncrief0131
E-Mail: denisemoncriefbooks(at)gmail(dot)com
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Denise is a Southern girl. She has lived in Louisiana all her life, and yes, she has a drawl. She has a wonderful husband and two incredible children, who not only endure her writing moods, but also encourage her to indulge her writing passion. Besides writing romantic suspense, she enjoys traveling, reading, and scrapbooking.
Accounting is a skill she learned to earn a little money to support her writing habit. She wrote he first story when she was a teen, seventeen handwritten pages on school-ruled paper and an obvious rip-off of the last romance novel she read. She's been writing off and on ever since, and with more than a few full-length manuscripts already completed, she has no desire to slow down.
Author's Book List
The Memory Catcher
Shaw's Landing
Ashley Ridge
Victoria House
Laurel Heights
Twin Rivers
Purgatory
An Impostor in Town
Cross Examination
The End
Deceptions of the Heart
Crisis of Serenity
Crisis of Identity
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Jinx Schwartz
Featured Book: Just Different Devils
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Young Adult/tweens, Historical/Western, Humor, Chicklit
Author's Blog: Jinx Schwartz's Water Writes
Website: Jinx Schwartz
Twitter: @jinxschwartz
E-Mail: jinxschwartz@yahoo.com
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Jinx Schwartz is the author of nine books, including the award-winning Hetta Coffey series. Hetta is a sassy Texan with a snazzy yacht, and she's not afraid to use it!
A ninth-generation Texan, Jinx has lived and worked all over the globe, and much like the protagonist in her Hetta Coffey mystery series, she's a woman with a yacht and not afraid to use it.
Author's Book List
Just Different Devils
Just Needs Killin'
Just The Pits
Hetta Coffey Collection
Troubled Sea
Just Deserts
Just Add Trouble
Just Add Salt
Just Add Water
Land Of Mountains
The Texicans
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Featured Set: A Killer Necklace
Fashionation with Mystery Book 2
Cynthia St-Pierre & Melodie Campbell
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Who is the dead woman at the bottom of the stairs?
When Weather Network star Gina Monroe arrives in Black Currant Bay for her wedding shower, all is bliss. But happiness turns to horror when Gina and close friend Becki find the hostess with her head bashed in.
Strange things come to light when Gina and Becki are asked to sort through the dead woman’s belongings. Just who was this woman? And why did frumpy Louisa have a closet full of vintage couturier clothes?
As the investigation continues, the danger increases. Arson reveals the hiding place of a fabulous sapphire necklace, which leads to more questions and ramps up the risk for Gina and Becki. A killer is determined to keep the identity of the dead woman a secret—even if it means killing again.
Excerpt from A Killer Necklace
Chapter 1
Shivering is an involuntary physical reaction to temperature. Same with the sweat on my forehead. Humidity.
Tony tried to push down all thoughts that were extraneous to the job at hand—finding Gina.
Entering the one large room, dimly lit by two tiny windows set high in the concrete walls, he flipped the switch on the wall to his left. The glare of bare fluorescents created more contrast, is all. Brighter lights. Deeper shadows.
Despite his training, his heart pumped like he was running uphill.
He always overcame fear with preparation, with experience. But this wasn’t fear; this was irrational terror, on behalf of someone he loved more than life itself.
Gina.
She had been investigating a murder. The body of a woman found in a basement, like this one. Now Gina had been forcibly taken.
He tried to convince himself that he had the strength, the training to deal with whatever he found.
Then he stepped forward.
Author: Cynthia St-Pierre
Author Genre: Mystery
Author's Blog: Fashionation With Mystery
Twitter: @stpierrecynthia
E-Mail: cynthiast-pierre@rogers.com
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In marketing Cynthia wrote promotional, packaging and communications materials; penned articles for business periodicals; and a chapter of "How to Successfully Do Business in Canada". Currently a member of Crime Writers of Canada, she has one award for fiction and has been a writing contest judge. Best of all for a mystery writer, Cynthia has received a York Regional Police Citizens Awareness Program certificate, presented and signed by Julian Fantino, former Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police.
Cynthia grows vegetables in her backyard, makes recipes with tofu, and speaks English-accented French with husband Yves. Visit Cynthia's blog (in the voice of character Becki Green) at vegetariandetective.blogspot.com.
Author: Melodie Campbell
Author Genre: Humor, Fantasy, Mystery
Author's Blog: Melodie Campbell
Twitter: @MelodieCampbell
E-Mail: mcampbell50@cogeco.ca
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CODE NAME:GYPSY MOTH just released! "a worthy tribute to Douglas Adams"
THE GODDAUGHTER'S REVENGE has won the 2014 DERRINGER AWARD for crime novella and the 2014 ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD in Canada!
Billed as Canada's "Queen of Comedy" by the Toronto Sun (Jan. 5 2014,) Melodie Campbell achieved a personal best when Library Digest compared her to Janet Evanovich.
Winner of nine awards, including the Derringer (US) and Arthur Ellis (Canada) for THE GODDAUGHTER'S REVENGE, Melodie got her start writing comedy. In 1999, she opened the Canadian Humour Conference. So it's no surprise her fiction has been described by editors and reviewers as "wacky" and "laugh-out-loud funny."
Melodie has over 200 publications, 100 comedy credits, 40 short stories, and seven novels.
The Goddaughter, a comic crime caper, received the following review from Library Journal: "Campbell's comic caper is just right for Janet Evanovich fans. Wacky family connections and snappy dialogue make it impossible not to laugh." Library Journal, Sept. 2012
Featured Set: HBS Author's Spotlight Bookshelf - Fall Favorites 2015
Title: Moon Patrol
Author: Devin C. Hughes
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Author: Devin C. Hughes
Author Genre: Ethnic & Minority Studies + Biography
Website: Devin C. Hughes
Twitter: @DevinCHughes
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Devin C. Hughes was born in Washington D.C. in 1969 to a black father and white mother. Devin grew up in a mixed--and mixed up--world. His home life was chaotic, riddled with his parents' drug use and unconventional ways of educating; dyslexia made academic learning a seemingly insurmountable challenge; and his identity was beyond confusing--was he black because he felt black or white because he looked white?
Devin knew one thing: he needed to escape his environment and get into college, beyond which he believed the world would open up to him.
His memoir, Contrast, is his gift back to those who are looking for some inspiration and passion to move forward, not look back. A great life is measured by ones progress not perfection!
Title: The Russian Deception
Author: Alex Lukeman
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Author: Alex Lukeman
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Health, Fantasy,Sword And Sorcery
Website: Alex Lukeman
Author's Blog: Alex Lukeman - Heroes Don't Always Fight in the Light
Twitter: @Alexlukeman
E-Mail: alex@alexlukeman.com
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Alex Lukeman writes action/adventure thrillers featuring a covert intelligence unit called the PROJECT and is the author of the award-winning Amazon best seller, The Tesla Secret. Alex is a former Marine and psychotherapist and uses his experience of the military and human nature to inform his work. He likes riding old, fast motorcycles and playing guitar, usually not at the same time. You can email him at alex@alexlukeman.com. He loves hearing from readers and promises he will get back to you.
Title: Short & Tall Tales in Goose Pimple Junction
Author: Amy Metz
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Author: Amy Metz
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Humor, Romance
Website: Amy Metz, author
Author's Blog: A Blue Million Books
Twitter: @authoramymetz
E-Mail: amy@amymetz.com.
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Amy Metz is the author of the Goose Pimple Junction mystery series. She is a former first grade teacher and the mother of two sons. When not writing, enjoying her family, or surfing Pinterest, Amy can usually be found with a mixing spoon, camera, or book in one hand and a glass of sweet tea in the other. Amy lives in Louisville, Kentucky and loves a good Southern phrase.
Title: Death Goes to the County Fair
Author: Annette Drake
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Author: Annette Drake
Author Genre: Romance, Young Adult
Website: Annette Drake
Author's Blog: Annette Drake
Twitter: @annettedrake13
E-Mail: Write2me@AnnetteDrake.com
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Annette Drake is a multi-genre author whose work is character-driven and celebrates the law of unintended consequences. Her first cozy mystery, Death Goes to the County Fair - An Ogallala Mystery, will publish Oct. 15th.
Her novella, A Beautiful Day in Alaska, premiered Feb. 1st. A Year with Geno, her contemporary romance set in Eagle River, Alaska, was released on summer solstice, June 21st.
Other titles include Bone Girl and Celebration House.
Both A Year with Geno and Celebration House were nominated for the RONE Award from InD'tale Magazine. Celebration House was also nominated for the Paranormal Romance Guild's Reviewers Choice award.
Annette makes her home in Washington state. A member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, she loves libraries, basset hounds and bakeries. She does not camp. If she can help it.
Title: Conditioned
Author: Christoph Fischer
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Author: Christoph Fischer
Author Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Website: Christoph Fischer Books
Author's Blog: Christoph Fischer
Twitter: @CFFBooks
E-Mail: ChristophFFischer@googlemail.com
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Christoph Fischer was born in Germany, near the Austrian border, as the son of a Sudeten-German father and a Bavarian mother. Not a full local in the eyes and ears of his peers he developed an ambiguous sense of belonging and home in Bavaria. He moved to Hamburg in pursuit of his studies and to lead a life of literary indulgence. After a few years he moved on to the UK where he now lives in a small town in West Wales. He and his partner have three Labradoodles to complete their family.
Christoph worked for the British Film Institute, in Libraries, Museums and for an airline. ‘The Luck of The Weissensteiners’ was published in November 2012; 'Sebastian' in May 2013 and The Black Eagle Inn in October 2013. "Time To Let Go" , his first contemporary work was published in May 2014, and “Conditions” in October 2014. His medical thriller "The Healer" was released in January 2015 and his latest historical novel “In Search of a Revolution” in March 2015.
He has written several other novels which are in the later stages of editing and finalisation.
Title: Winter Romance
Author: Lizzy Stevens
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Author: Lizzy Stevens
Author Genre: Paranormal, Romance and Woman's fiction
Website: Lizzy Stevens
Author's Blog: Lizzy Stevens Blog
Twitter: @LizzyStevens123
E-Mail: witchesofsnowhollow@gmail.com
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Lizzy Stevens is an Amazon International Best Selling Author. She writes paranormal/ romance and woman's fiction. She's a wife & mother of 2 boys.
Lizzy has been writing most of her life but got her first official contract in 2008. 2013 was an exciting year for her. She became an International Best Selling author on Amazon.
Title: Vortex
Author: Paul D. Marks
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Author: Paul D. Marks
Author Genre: Mysteries, Satire, Noir, Detective, Crime
Website: Paul D. Marks
Author's Blog: Cafe Noir
Twitter: @PaulDMarks
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A Los Angeles native, Paul Marks loves the city that L.A. was. Dodging bullets, he's not so sure about the city it is today.
Paul D. Marks is the author of over thirty published short stories in a variety genres, ranging from noir to straight mystery, satire to serious fiction. His work has received praise, including awards from Glimmer Train, The Lorian Hemingway International Short Story Competition, SouthWest Writers, and more. His work has appeared in various anthologies and magazines, including Dime, the Deadly Ink 2010 Short Story Collection, Murder in La La Land, Murder Across the Map, LAndmarked for Murder, Hardboiled magazine and more. He has also published numerous magazine/periodical articles as well as having done film work.
In a former life, Paul was a script doctor, making his living from optioning screenplays of his own and rewriting other people's scripts or developing their ideas. He has also lectured on writing and screenwriting at UCLA, California State University, San Bernardino, Learning Tree University and at other seminars and conferences.
He is also the last person to have shot on the fabled MGM backlot before it bit the dust to make way for housing. According to Steven Bingen, one of the authors of the well-received book MGM: HOLLYWOOD'S GREATEST BACKLOT: "That 40 page chronological list I mentioned of films shot at the studio ends with his [Paul D. Marks'] name on it."
His book WHITE HEAT is the winner of the 2013 SHAMUS AWARD by the Private Eye Writers of America.
Title: 40 Tons of Trouble
Author: Connie Flynn
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Author: Connie Flynn
Author Genre: Mystery, Fantasy and Romance
Website: Connie's Books
Author's Blog: Imagination Gone Wild
Twitter: @ConnieFlynn
E-Mail: connieflynn@yahoo.com
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Connie Flynn wrote her first short story in the fourth grade for a wonderful teacher named Mr. Ryan who encouraged her vivid imagination and strong storytelling skills. Since then she has published novels and short stories in multiple genres, has taught creative writing in her local community college district and cofounded an online novel writing school. But writing itself is her first love and she knows how lucky she is to have found out what she wants to be when she grows up. A lifelong Arizona resident, she lives with her Goldendoodle and come summer she always swears she's moving to a cooler state, then winter returns and she forgets she ever said that.
Connie's next book is KNOW WHEN TO HIDE, the second in the Riverboat series. Look for it around Valentine's Day.
Title: Nine Lives
Author: Wendy Corsi Staub
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Author: Wendy Corsi Staub
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Suspense, Contemporary
Website: Wendy Corsi Staub
Author's Blog: Wendy Corsi Staub
Twitter: @WendyCorsiStaub
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New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than eighty novels, best known for the single title psychological suspense novels she writes under her own name. Those novels and the women's fiction she writes under the pseudonym Wendy Markham also frequently appear on the USA Today, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookscan bestseller lists.
In 2015, Wendy will publish three new novels: THE BLACK WIDOW (on sale in February), which concludes her cyber predator suspense trilogy for HarperCollins; BLOOD RED (on sale in September), which launches Mundy’s Landing, a new psychological suspense trilogy for HarperCollins; and NINE LIVES (on sale in October), which launches Lily Dale, a new cozy mystery series for Crooked Lane Books. Her Wendy Markham novel HELLO, IT’S ME, originally published in 2005, will air as a television movie starring Kellie Martin and Kavan Smith on the Hallmark Channel in September.
A two-time finalist for the prestigious Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award, she’s won the 2008 RT Award for Career Achievement in Suspense, the 2007 RWA-NYC Golden Apple Award for Lifetime Achievement, an RWA Rita award, and five WLA Washington Irving Prizes for Fiction.
She previously published a dozen adult suspense novels with Kensington Books as well as the acclaimed young adult series Lily Dale with Walker/Bloomsbury. Earlier in her career, she published in a broad range of genres under her own name and various pseudonyms, and has co-authored and ghostwritten for a number of celebrities.
Wendy grew up in Dunkirk, New York, a small town near Buffalo and graduated from SUNY Fredonia. She moved to Manhattan and became an editor before selling her first novel in 1992. She now lives in the New York City suburbs with her husband and sons. A vocal and active supporter of Relay for Life, Support Connection, and the American Cancer Society, she was a 2012 Ovarian Cancer Awareness month national spokesperson for the Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation. As an animal rights advocate, she fosters for various rescue organizations.
Title: Seized by Love
Author: Melissa Foster
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Author: Melissa Foster
Author Genre: Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers
Website: Melissa Foster
Author's Blog: Amazon Author's Page
Twitter: @Melissa_Foster
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Melissa Foster is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling and award-winning author. She writes contemporary romance, new adult, contemporary women’s fiction, suspense, and historical fiction with emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Her books have been recommended by USA Today’s book blog, Hagerstown Magazine, The Patriot, and several other print venues. She is the founder of the World Literary Café and Fostering Success. When she’s not writing, Melissa helps authors navigate the publishing industry through her author training programs on Fostering Success. Melissa has been published in Calgary’s Child Magazine, the Huffington Post, and Women Business Owners magazine.
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Title: He Came Back
Author: Lorhainne Eckhart
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Author: Lorhainne Eckhart
Author Genre: Romance, Mystery & Thrillers, Young Adult
Website: Lorhainne Eckhart
Twitter: @Leckhart
E-Mail: Lorhainne@LorhainneEckhart.com
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New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart's books have been described as Longmire meets old-school Dallas, and she recently received the 2013 Readers' Favorite Award for Romantic Suspense for her title Lost and Found. With over thirty five titles under her belt, her big family romance series have become a fan favorite. She is frequently a Top 100 bestselling author in multiple genres, such as romance, western, military and mystery/suspense. She has written multiple series, including The Outsider, Walk the Right Road, The Wilde Brothers, Saved, The Friessens, and her two newest additions, Married in Montana, and her high-stakes suspense and sizzling, red-hot romance series, Kate and Walker, Deadly, Dangerous and Desired.
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