Tucson Festival of Books 2017
New Shoes
Detective Lottie King Mystery Short Stories, Vol. 2
Author: Shelley Coriell
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Newly retired, Lottie King vows to rest, relax, and recreate. Unfortunately, the boredom's killing this former homicide detective...until she stumbles upon murders in the most unexpected places. Will Lottie's resolve crumble as the body count rises? Features five mystery short stories and Lottie-inspired recipes.
New Shoes -- To celebrate her retirement from Colorado Springs PD, Lottie vacations in New Orleans and stumbles upon an old murder while shopping for new shoes.
First Dance -- With plenty of time on her hands, Lottie vows to exercise more and lose weight, but her attempt at healthy living gets sidetracked when she discovers a murder victim on the first day of her new dance class.
Light Parade -- Lottie battles the clock and an unexpected Big Bad as she joins the police in a race to find a bomb planted at a Christmas light parade where her Girl Power troop is marching.
Unexpected Delivery -- A mysterious package is erroneously delivered to Lottie who puts on her detective hat to find the intended--and entertaining--recipient. (A short, short story)
Long Shot -- Going stir-crazy in retirement, Lottie agrees to help a novice private investigator track down a gambling spouse who ended up losing more than the balance of his bank account.
Author: Shelley Coriell
Author Genre: Romance
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Shelley Coriell is an award-winning author of romantic suspense and novels for teens. Her debut romantic thriller, The Broken, was named one of the Best Romances of Summer 2014 by Publishers Weekly and a Top Pick/4.5 Stars by Romantic Times Book Reviews. An avid foodie and former restaurant reviewer, Shelley lives in Arizona with her family and the world's neediest rescue weimaraner.
Song of the Ancients
Ancient Magic Book 1
Author: Sandy Wright
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What would you die for?
Samantha Danroe doesn't believe in magic. Her ex-husband cured her of happily-ever-after when he cheated on her three days after saying I-do.
She doesn't believe in ghosts. Until her mother's ghost rises from a Halloween bonfire with a warning of death from beyond the grave.
And she certainly doesn't believe in witchcraft. Until she becomes the prey in an ancient war waged between good and evil. A war whose rules she must scramble to learn to stay alive.
In need of protection, Samantha turns to the mysterious Nicholas Orenda, a sixth-generation witch on the trail of a creature who is systematically killing off his family. According to his family's prophecy, three will be sacrificed to the dark. His mother and grandmother are already dead, and Nicholas doesn't have time to play by the rules.
Samantha finds herself in the center of a deadly hunt for a mysterious foe. Can she find the strength to defeat a supernatural killer and prevent the third sacrifice? Or will she be the catalyst that opens the gates to the Underworld?
Author: Sandy Wright
Author Genre: Paranormal & Urban
Website: writerSandy
Twitter: @sinazAZ
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Sandy Wright is an award-winning author of paranormal and romantic suspense novels, poetry and short fiction. Her newest novel is Song of the Ancients, set in the magical red rocks of Sedona, Arizona.
Sandy loves to take ordinary characters and put them in extraordinary situations that change their view of this world. A journalism major and teacher, she is also a 2nd degree Wiccan High Priestess with a coven in the Phoenix, AZ area.
Born and raised in the midwest, Sandy lives in Arizona with her husband, college-age son, and three huge black cats, including Shadow Moon, who is also a character in her first book. The most recent addition to the household is Teak, a laid-back (yeah, right) Australian Shepherd/Border Collie mix puppy. The cats despise him, of course.
Alien Nation
Alien Novels Book 14
Author: Gini Koch
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It’s a typical day of bureaucracy and stress for President and First Lady Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini, made more stressful when alien spacecraft are spotted making a beeline for Earth, none of them from the Alpha Centauri system.
Then a cryptic request from an old adversary pulls Kitty out of the White House and into an explosion—and an even more explosive situation. Not only is the Mastermind back in the game, influencing the Club 51 True Believers to find and destroy all Centaurion bases, but he’s also found a dangerous benefactor and created some frightening new cloning abilities.
And, just to make things a little more challenging, those alien spacecraft are coming to ask Kitty for protection, and asylum on Earth. Police stations being blown up and war helicopters in play aren’t enoughto keep Kitty down, especially when she’s got some new alien friends helping out.
But what these aliens share will rock the world—the other aliens on theirway to Earth are fleeing an enemy so terrifying that even a Z’porrah ship is trying to get to Earth for safety and protection. And if Earth isn’t able to stop this threat, there may not be anything left of humanity.
Now Kitty and Company have to figure out where the Mastermind is and stop him, before any new aliens land. And then they have to save the world from a deadly invasion. Or, as Kitty calls it, Thursday.
Author: Gini Koch
Author Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Humor, Paranormal
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Gini Koch writes the fast, fresh and funny Alien/Katherine "Kitty" Katt series for DAW Books, the Necropolis Enforcement Files series, and the Martian Alliance Chronicles series. Alien in the House, Book 7 in her long-running Alien series, won the RT Book Reviews Reviewer's Choice Award as the Best Futuristic Romance of 2013. As G.J. Koch she writes the Alexander Outland series and she's made the most of multiple personality disorder by writing under a variety of other pen names as well, including Anita Ensal, Jemma Chase, A.E. Stanton, and J.C. Koch. Gini also has short stories featured in a variety of current and upcoming anthologies, writing as Gini Koch, Anita Ensal, and J.C. Koch.
Euphoria Lane
Author: Tina Swayzee McCright
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Andi Stevenson knew her life would never be same after purchasing her new condo on Euphoria Lane. On day one, she finds the body of the homeowners association president. Day two, she discovers the property manager is her former fiancé. Day three, the new president begins his campaign of violation letters to force her to move. Day four, her sister, the owner of a detective agency, needs her help with the investigation of the murder. And day five, a full scale neighborhood war!
Author: Tina Swayzee McCright
Author Genre: Mystery, Romance
Website: Tina Swayzee McCright
Twitter: @TinaMcCright
E-Mail: booksbytina@gmail.com
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Tina Swayzee McCright is a multi-award winning author. While participating in the Kindle Scout program with Euphoria Lane, the first of her Homeowners Association Mysteries, she discovered her passion was writing romantic cozy mysteries.
She began her career writing romantic suspense under the name Tina LaVon. The Long and The Short Of It Reviews says "LaVon has true gift for writing sympathetically and insightfully. Even her villains are compelling and three-dimensional..."
After marrying her college sweetheart - "The Irish Charmer" - she changed her pen name to Tina Swayzee McCright. Swayzee is her maiden name. Her family is distantly related to actors Patrick Swayze and William Holden, plus television news anchor, John Cameron Swayze.
Her short story, Once Upon a Weekend, is a fractured fairytale she wrote for a charitable cause which fell through. Although she doesn't usually write fairytales, she was fond of the story and decided to release it through The Wild Rose Press, which also released Liquid Hypnosis.
Tina is known for her unexpected twists. Fallen Angel Reviews wrote, "The story (Liquid Hypnosis) has such a twist to it that when it happens you wonder how you didn't see that coming."
The Minstrel's Tale
Author: Anna Questerly
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Fourteenth Century, France
Amos Questerly, a wandering minstrel takes on a mysterious young apprentice. But his new protégé, Richard, carries a deadly secret. A secret someone is willing to kill for.
To reach safety they must earn their way to England by telling exciting stories of magical swords, princesses, and dragons, while danger follows on their heels.
By the time Amos learns Richard’s secret, it’s clear even England may not be safe. The two, trapped in an adventure as thrilling as any of the minstrel’s tales, must follow a perilous path that leads straight to the royal palace.
Author: Anna Questerly
Author Genre: Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult
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Bookseller and bibliophile turned author, Anna Questerly writes medieval fiction and fairy tales for smart kids and young hearts. For adults, she writes utopian fantasy as A.J. Questerly.
Defiance
Smirnov Bratva Book 3
Author: T.L. Smith
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She was promised to me.
I was promised to her.
She was the daughter of a drug lord, I was the cousin of one.
Together we could have been beautiful.
Oh, so beautiful.
But beautiful doesn’t factor into my life.
Death.
Destruction.
Pain.
That was my life.
She’d had her taste of it.
But was she really ready for it?
Because I lived in hell, and my wife would soon be Satan’s bitch.
She wouldn’t be prepared.
She could never be.
Author: T.L. Smith
Author Genre: Romance, Suspense
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Twitter: @tlsmithbooks
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T.L Smith Lover of chocolate, books, but mostly words.
T.L Smith loves to travel, loves to shop for books, sometimes shoes ;-)
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Enemies & Traitors
The Norsemen's War: Book One - Teigen and Selby - The Hansen Series 1
Author: Kris Tualla
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Oslo, Norway ~ 1942
Nazi Germany occupied Norway from 1940-1945...
High school chemistry teacher, Teigen Hansen, managed to dodge Nazi attention until the day he was asked to sign Vidkun Quisling’s Declaration of Loyalty and swear to teach Nazi ideals. Mass refusal put 1,000 male teachers in prison. When they still refused, 500 of them were sent to a Nazi labor camp deep inside Norway’s Arctic Circle. When Teigen is released after seven months under frigid and grueling conditions, he immediately joins Milorg—Norway’s Resistance—and becomes part of the Royal Shakespearean Acting Troupe, a traveling group of resistance workers under cover.
Because of past experiences Selby Sunde hates men, so she has no problem “dating” Nazi officers and plying them for covert information. Her resolve is rocked when Teigen Hansen joins the troupe. Untrained yet determined, he never does what she expects—but always what’s right. As their Milorg assignments grow increasingly dangerous, it’s Teigen who saves her life as together they work to defeat Norway’s enemies & traitors.
Author: Kris Tualla
Author Genre: Romance
Website: Historical Romance & Suspense by Kris Tualla
Twitter: @kristualla
E-Mail: Kris@KrisTualla.com
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Kindle Top-100 author Kris Tualla, a dynamic award-winning and internationally published author of historical romantic suspense, writes with a fast-paced and succinct style. Her plots are full of twists, passion, and very satisfying outcomes! Kris started in 2006 with nothing but a nugget of a character in mind, and has created a dynasty with "The Hansen Series" and "The Discreet Gentleman Series."
Kris is an active member of Romance Writers of America, the Historical Novel Society, and Sisters in Crime. She is an enthusiastic speaker and teacher, and created Arizona Dreamin' - Arizona's first romance-reader event: ArizonaDreaminEvent.com - and it's author-focused companion: BuildintheDream.com
"In the Historical Romance genre, there have been literally countless kilted warrior stories told. Well, I say it's time for a new breed of heroes! Come along with me and find out why: Norway IS the new Scotland!"
Big, blond, buff and beautiful men, with eyes the colors of seawater, and the wild, untamable blood of their Viking ancestors flowing through their veins. Do you feel it? The Hansen Men of Arendal, Norway - whose stories extend from post-plague Europe in 1354 through the 1840s American western expansion - are just such heroes.
Cracked Heart
Poetic Thoughts on a Life
Author: Michele Venne
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The best fodder for the Muse are life’s events and circumstances. We all have had situations that molded us, forced us to grow, made us strong, even when we would have chosen an easier path, one with a lot less pain, hard work, and challenges. For me, writing has become a way of reflecting on life, a chance to process what happened, and an avenue for healing. I pondered the Japanese practice of wabi sabi, highlighting a crack in a jar or pot and often filling it with gold or other precious metals, while compiling the poems in this collection. The fractures formed during my journey have been filled with my words written in poetry, short stories, and novels. If these poems incite your own reflection and healing through creativity, I invite you to read the section on utilizing writing to record your poetic thoughts on a life.
Author: Michele Venne
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Website: My Joy Enterprises
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Michele Venne is the award-winning author of six romantic thrillers, two collections of poetry, a novella, and a contributor to a flash fiction anthology. She published her first novel in 2008 when the opening scene kept playing itself in her mind. All of her books include an introductory “Dear Reader” letter and concludes with “Questions to Ponder”. Michele holds numerous certifications in education. She spends her days with the joyful practices of yoga, teaching, writing, and playing with her horses.
Pierced by Venom
A Redeeming Cupid Novel
Author: Jenn Windrow
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Gia Adler had it all—a charmed life and her true love to share it with. But moments after she murmurs, “I do,” her ex-boyfriend delivers a lead wedding present into her new husband’s chest, leaving him in a coma and shattering her dreams.
Hell-bent on ruining her future, Gia’s psychotic ex-boyfriend then abducts her, transporting her to an underground world of destruction, drugs, and death. He’s no wicked witch and they’re in no enchanted forest. He’s evil incarnate and she’s submerged in hell-on-earth, a twisted thing of nasty nightmares.
Gia must fight for her happily-ever-after—and her true love—by facing down her ex and the demons of her past.
Author: Jenn Windrow
Author Genre: Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy
Website: Jenn Windrow
Author's Blog: readerlicious.com
Twitter: @JenMWindrow
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Jenn Windrow loves characters that have a pinch of spunk, a dash of attitude, and a large dollop of sex appeal. Top it all off with a huge heaping helping of snark, and you've got the ingredients for the kind of fast paced stories she loves to read and write. Home is a suburb of it's-so-hot-my-shoes-have-melted-to-the-pavement Phoenix. Where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and a slew of animals that seem to keep following her home, at least that's what she claims.
Jenn's Urban Fantasy, EVIL’S UNLIKELY ASSASSIN won the RWA Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal (FF&P), “On The Far Side” writing contest in July 2014, top 5 in the RWA Desert Rose, “Realizing the Dream” writing contest, and finaled in the Houston Writers Guild annual writing contest in April 2014. It was also selected as first runner up in Writers Type’s First Chapter Contest in April 2013.
Her Paranormal Romance, STRUCK BY EROS placed first in the RWA’s Golden Pen Contest, third in the Ruby Slippered Sisterhoods Make it Golden contest, and fourth in the West Coast Romance Writers Beacon contest.
My First full length novel, Struck By Eros will be released Summer 2016.
7 Sykos
Author: Marsheila Rockwell/Jeffrey J. Mariotte
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Detached from the world, how are seven psychopaths going to save it?
Phoenix is one of the most populated cities in America…but not for long. With a mysterious sickness spreading through the streets, two things are becoming very clear: there’s no cure, and it doesn’t necessarily kill you.
Instead, the so-called “Infecteds” have become a living plague, killing and eating everyone they come into contact with. Chaos is spreading, and no one is safe.
No one, that is, except for a group of psychos.
Somehow unaffected by the disease—and with promises of clemency for their monstrous pasts—a group of seven is sent downtown to hopefully find the cause of the disease…and therefore a cure. But when the asylum is the size of a city, it no longer matters who is running things.
Not when everyone is running for their lives.
Author: Jeffrey J. Mariotte
Author Genre: Thriller, Horror, Fantasy
Website: Jeff Mariotte.com
Author's Blog: Dispatches from the Flying M
Twitter: @JeffMariotte
E-Mail: jmariotte@aol.com
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Jeff Mariotte was born in Park Forest, Illinois. He moved away from there at the age of six, when his father, a civilian working for the Department of Defense, was transferred to Paris, France. Since then he's lived in Arlington and Reston, Virginia, Worms and Schriesheim, Germany, San Jose, San Diego, and Arizona.
He graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in Radio/TV/Film. He has worked delivering the Washington Post, in a comic book store and a fast food restaurant, selling encyclopedias door-to-door, and as maintenance supervisor for a large regional shopping center. He was the manager of Hunter's Books, La Jolla when his first fiction was published. He has been VP of Marketing and Senior Editor for comic book publisher WildStorm Productions, Editor-in-Chief for IDW Publishing, a co-owner of independent specialty bookstore Mysterious Galaxy, and a freelance writer and editor.
He is passionate about-among other things-reading, the deserts and mountains and forests of the American West, modern and historical, politics, photography, independent bookstores, and whatever else strikes his fancy at any given moment.
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