J. Gunnar Grey
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What's the best marketing outlet?
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Of all the marketing you've done for your ebook, paperback, hardback, whatever--of everything you've tried, what would you say has worked the best? I've heard various comments, such as:Goodreads or…Continue

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About Me:
I never wanted to be anything except a novelist, so of course I've been everything else-—proofreader, typesetter, editor, nonfiction writer, photographer, secretary, data entry clerk, legal assistant, Starfleet lieutenant commander, stable manager, dancer—-and no, not that kind of dancer. My long-suffering husband is just excited I'm actually using those two degrees, one from the University of Houston Downtown and the MA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. My novels are mysterious, adventurous, and romantically suspenseful, but all sorts of other stuff can leap out of that keyboard without warning.
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Reader, Writer, Editor, Critic
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http://the1940mysterywriter.wordpress.com/
Books And Authors I Like:
Ellery Queen, Dorothy Sayers, Alistair MacLean, Jack Higgins, G.K. Chesterton, John Douglas, and Jane Austen
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
don't really watch visual media

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The Dingo Baby case, Part One

One of the most common complaints about mystery novels is that they’re unrealistic. It’s just not believable, the nay-sayers say, for an amateur sleuth to solve a crime that baffles the experts. But a 1980s case from the Australian Outback shows the assumptions upon which that claim is based, and disproves them.

Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, is a huge sandstone…

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Posted on May 8, 2011 at 3:52am

Six Sentence Sunday 05/01/11

My uniform pocket, meanwhile, felt rather heavy. And increasingly hot.

That midnight, while Greentree and those who couldn’t escape continued the search, I rappelled down the outside wall of his apartment building, let myself into his bedroom, and planted the ruddy things in the trouser pocket of the uniform he’d worn the previous day. It seemed a decent enough plan at the time, and my skills weren’t so rusty that I left any fingerprints that would incriminate me. And I must admit to…

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Posted on May 1, 2011 at 8:48am

When the victim’s fingerprints count the most

Most commonly, it’s the perpetrator’s fingerprints that land him or her in jail. But in the kidnapping of Charles Urschel, it was the victim’s fingerprints that lead to the capture of a notorious Prohibition era gangster.

 

The crime

Charles F. Urschel, oil millionaire and philanthropist, and his wife Berenice were entertaining their friends, the Jarretts, at the Urschels’ Oklahoma City home with a game of bridge on July 22, 1933, when two bandits armed…

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Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:58am

Formatting your ms for Kindle upload

Yes, you get some formatting errors when you upload your usual word processing doc to Kindle Direct Publishing. And yes, there’s a free and relatively easy way around this problem. I’m preparing a short how-to manual, teaching self-pubbing authors how to format their work for a seamless Amazon.com upload without formatting errors, in four steps. But honestly, the most important part of the process is detailed in the instructions listed on my… Continue

Posted on April 16, 2011 at 5:35am

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At 10:26am on November 7, 2011, Susan said…

Gunnar, can't believe I haven't sent you an update!   Many blog posts have been added. Please check out my latest!

DARK DEEDS

Everyone knew something bad was going to happen...

 

At 11:07am on April 22, 2011, Susan said…
Will do. I spent yesterday updating my website. Must set up subdomain w/my server for the blog. Still thinking what to call it ... Also prepping release of my latest crime thriller. I am psyched! But it's a lotta work. As you already know!  :)
At 10:58am on April 21, 2011, Susan said…
Hi Gunnar, so happy we connected here on crimespace. I'm a bit crazed at the mo, updating my website, etc, and planning my new blog ... because your comment encouraged me. Once I get it together a bit, I'll be back in touch. BTW, I went to your website/blog ... looks great. I'll stop by and dig in when I have a bit more time!
 
 
 

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