I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined a team of great friends who also happen to be amazingly talented authors and formed a new authors' blog called MURDER BY 4. Of course, we've included a link to Crimespace as a great place for authors to vitits!

You'll find us here: www.murderby4.blogspot.com

Today was our first day and it's been great. We have several guest…

I received word this morning that my debut crime mystery, Silenced Cry…

This is your chance to win a copy of crime mystery SILENCED CRY. The voting page for AUGUST Book Cover of the Month is up and the cover of SILENCED CRY is awaiting your vote.…

The cover for SILENCED CRY is now featured in BOOK COVER OF THE WEEK. It will be displayed for one week on the home page at www.erinaislinn.com. A link to my home page is included.

Voting for the Best of AUGUST will run from SEPTEMBER 3-30, so I invite you to please take a moment to visit the site, and vote for the book cover of SILENCED CRY. Voters will be automatically entered for a chance to win a copy of my book. The voting page will be at:…

http://www.fwointl.com/artman/publish/article_1003.shtml

For those who have been following my virtual book tour, the information in this interview won't reflect anything new, but I've very pleased to have a write up on this website. I found this site via my publisher.

The 3rd week of my virtual book tour features three more articles and this Saturday's chat session. You’ll find this week's blogs at the following sites:

Sunday, August 12…

I was interviewed by Marilyn Meredith for her blog, Marilyn's Musings. Please follow this link to read the interview: http://marilynmeredith.blogspot.com/

All my interviews are available on my website, www.martastephens-author.com on my "Stephens Interrogated" page. All my articles are posted on my blog…

My good friend Kaycee Conners did a terrific job coming up with the questions for the interview she posted today in her Wordpress blog, http://pubd2b.wordpress.com/. This one really made me think.

Hope you'll all have a chance to pop in for a read and post a comment. All of my personal interviews will be posted to my website, …

You'll find the next article of my virtual book tour here: http://writingspace.blogspot.com/. Please feel free to post a comment on that blog. I look forward to it. :)…

Today marks the third day of my virtual book tour. The entire schedule and all the links to articles and interviews are available on the Events page of my website,…

Here are the links to the first two events on my virtual book tour. Special thanks to Phil Harris and Joyce Tremel. Click on the link dated 7/30 …

http://mstephens-musings.blogspot.com/ I've had this blog for a while but haven't done too much with it. After spending the past four months blogging on the 18 or so sites that I belong to, I decided I needed to revamp my blog to not only promote my writing, but to also have a place where I can showcase other authors.

I'd like to invite you to vist my blog and look forward to your comments!

Mark your calendars—Please!

“Silenced Cry,” the first in a series of crime/mystery novels, was released in April 2007. An August virtual book tour will give readers further insight into the book and the author. The tour will kick off on Monday, July 30, at 7:30 p.m. EST with a talk on the Internet Voice Radio. Other planned virtual events throughout August include guest blogs, interviews with the author and a special guest, plus a chat session.

Events details…

Nothing like getting stuck on the third chapter with 43 more to go. There's no time for my usual strategy either. Can't walk away from a first draft that's peppered with holes while a six-month deadline looms over my head.

Okay, here's the deal. A third body just washed to shore, I'm in the morgue, and the medical examiner swears he's found some evidence. I can't see it--I've tried but it's not there. Not yet anyway.

I'm too restless--distracted easily by the dumbest things. I…

Somewhere between the first novel I wrote (that I never finished because it was the first novel I wrote and I didn't know what the heck I was doing), and the initial writing of my Harper crime mystery series, I wrote several short stories and a few flash fictions. At the time my only purpose for writing them was to use them as a writing exercise to help me focus on developing the plot and to tighten my…