Free books and stories giveaway- over a dozen authors, lots of books, some good mysteries included:
http://daletphillips.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-shadow-on-wall-coming-soon-and-big.html

New issue of Kings River Life is up and filled with more mystery fun. We have a review of Elaine Macko's latest mystery "Armed", a video interview with her from Left Coast Crime, and a chance to win a copy of the book & a box of tea to enjoy with it! http://kingsriverlife.com/05/26/armed-by-elaine-macko-mystery/

For those of you who enjoy craft mysteries, we have a review of Betty Hechtman's…

A new issue of Kings River Life is up! As we continue to celebrate Edgar Allan Poe & the release of "The Raven" we have a review of Christopher Allan Poe's (who is related to Edgar) book "The Portal", a video interview with him from Left Coast Crime & a chance to win a copy of the book…

BLACKOUT CONTEST

Alexander Steele is a retired African American private detective turned night club owner living in Philadelphia. He hoped to put the detective life behind him and move on with his longtime girlfriend Shakia. When Alex's friend brings him an encrypted travel drive with…

Today (Jan.31) starts my Blog Crawl (a pub crawl mixed with a blog tour). There are prizes to be had by commenting on the posts as I travel from blog to blog during the month of February. You can find the details at itsamysterytomepegherring.blogspot.com

As you follow the crawl, you'll be entertained with uses and abuses of the English language. Each week some lucky reader will win a copy of my February release, THE DEAD DETECTIVE AGENCY (either print or e-book format, your…

Buy the 65 Below eBook in between January 1st and March 31st 2011 and be entered to win a new Kindle WiFi reader! For every thousand initial entries I'll be giving away a brand new Kindle

3 eReader! No limit on how many I will give away!

To enter the contest email a copy of your Amazon, Smashwords or B&N order number to kindle@basilsands.com.…

The new issue of Kings River Life has an interview with mystery author Penny Warner, along with a review of her latest book HOW TO CRASH A KILLER BASH & a drawing to win a signed copy of that book http://kingsriverlife.com/12/11/interview-penny-warner-review/

There is also the final chapter of my mystery novel DEADLY DISCRIMINATION…

Sometime in the next few weeks, I will be celebrating my birthday. I won't tell you exactly when, because for identity theft protection purposes, I protect the date almost as well as I protect my social security number and full name. I will divulge that I am a Leo. And, don't ask how old I'm going to be either! ;-)



To celebrate, instead of collecting gifts, I am giving…

Would you love to see your short story published in Crimespree? Well, it's a definite possibility if you enter Love Is Murder 2011's short story contest. Jon Jordan, publisher of Crimespree, is committed to printing the winning entry in the February, 2011 issue of his fine magazine, and that could be yours! But hurry! The deadline for entries is September 1, 2010. Contest rules can be found at www.loveismurder.net under "Events".

Good…

We are proud to present the free BookRix writing contest: March 15, 2010 to May 10, 2010

Put forth what you consider to be your best work of fiction, whether it’s a short story, script, adventure, vampire romance, fan fiction or even Manga: All genres are welcome in this contest! The work must be at least 20 BookRix pages long, but…