I enjoyed reading from my novels at the Bowie Senior Center’s Book Lover Expo. The 2-hour event featured 20 local authors. I signed lots of books and made many new friends.

I also reviewed Debra Webb’s latest novel – POWER. Read my review of this character-driven mystery thriller in in The Big Thrill, the newsletter of the International Thriller Writers. http://www.thebigthrill.org/2012/08/power-by-debra-webb

Damascena posted this on Amazon.com about Blood and Bone:

“One of my personal delights is to find, and read, early works by favorite authors. I like to see how they started out, and along what lines they developed and matured. Sometimes the early books are a bit disappointing, and when they aren't, I feel as though I've found buried treasure. This is the case with Blood and bone. True, I can see how the…

For the next 5 days you can download a Kindle copy of the first Hannibal Jones detective story, The Troubleshooter, for FREE.

In it, a high powered Washington attorney buys an apartment building in the heart of the city, hoping to create low income housing for good families. Instead he finds the building occupied by squatters: drug dealers, winos and hookers intent on staying in place. Hannibal Jones is hired to free the building from them, but the people holding crack pipes are…

Debra Webb’s latest novel POWER is a character-driven tour-de-force. My review of this new mystery/thriller is in The Big Thrill, the International Thriller Writers newsletter http://bit.ly/PMhdKD

Today I talk about what NOT to do if you want your novel published, on my blog Another Writers Life. http://ascamacho.blogspot.com/