Up today in Kings River Life we have a great giveaway and reviews of 4 Penguin mysteries-"Chance of A Ghost": A Haunted Guesthouse Mystery by E.J. Copperman, "Knot What It Seams" by Elizabeth Craig, "One Hot Murder" by Lorraine Bartlett and "Veiled Revenge": A Crime of Fashion Mystery By Ellen Byerrum…

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LOVE LIES BLEEDING #8 in my Rafferty & Llewellyn procedural series.

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That's right - I’m celebrating the release of my new action thriller, The Ice Woman Assignment, by making it available for FREE TODAY FOR ONE DAY ONLY. 

 In this 4th book in their series Morgan Stark & Felicity O’Brien battle Anaconda - female leader of a Colombian drug cartel with a secret weapon: psychic slaves who can predict their every move. Anaconda is importing a new drug known simply as ice. Federal agencies hope Stark & O’Brien’s street connections can help them…

Book Title:  ROUGH DIAMOND

Author:  Kathryn Ledson

ISBN:   9781742537559

Series:  Erica Jewell

Year of Publication:  2012

Publisher:  Penguin Australia

Location:  Melbourne



Synopsis



Funny, romantic, and action-packed, Rough Diamond introduces Australia's own Stephanie Plum – the unforgettable Erica Jewell.



The shock ending to Erica Jewell's marriage left a huge hole in her bank balance and a bigger one in her heart. And now her life goals…

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Just by way of introducing myself, I thought members would be interested to know that my million-seller of ten years ago REDEMPTION BLUES has just been re-edited and issued for the first time as an e-book. You can find it at http://tinyurl.com/cgpjhr9

The novel was a huge hit in mainland Europe ten years ago, but - while that was very gratifying - that means it's hardly been read in English. Which is odd, because it's a…

Last week, I expanded a little on Will Lavender's presentation of plot aspects. In the second half of his seminar he focused more on thrillers and the ten aspects of this genre.

1. What’s the large puzzle and what are the smaller pieces/puzzles/evidence?

You have to have the main puzzle – the game played by the murderer and his threat to blow up a major building if he's not paid a…

The Creatures, Crimes & Creativity (C3) conference will gather readers and writers of mystery, suspense, thriller, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and steampunk fiction - September 13, 14 and 15 in Baltimore.. TODAY IS THE LAST DAY YOU CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EARLY BIRD PRICING!!

So, what do you get for your $235?

AUTHORS AND WRITERS get to spend time with their fans, and to expose new readers to their writing by presenting on panels. Their books will be available in our on-site…

In anticipation of my new novel – The Ice Woman Assignment – being released Friday, I was interviewed on Conversations LIVE! with Cyrus Webb. This very popular blog talk radio show is an interactive way for those in entertainment and the arts to come together to discuss whatever unites them in life. It was streamed live but you can still hear it. www.blogtalkradio.com/conversationslive

I had a great time speaking to the lovely members of the Holbury and Fawley U3A on Tuesday 26 February. They made me very welcome and were a superb audience. I talked about how I write my DI Andy Horton marine mystery crime novels and my thrillers.

I'm pleased to say that I will be…

Now available on Kindle, The Heist:

After a vicious robbery at a theme park, callous gang leader, Greg Armstrong blows up a rollercoaster to aid their escape, resulting in eighty-seven deaths. Months later, Kurt Vaughn and his family are enjoying a day out geocaching, but Kurt is about to discover that there’s more to the treasure hunt than he realises as the…

Award winning author, Athol Dickson is pleased to announce the first installment of his new murder mystery series, The Malcolm Cutter Memoirs. First up is January Justice. To read the first few chapters or purchase January Justice visit  http://Ez.com/JanuaryJusticeTour.

A limited number of Kindle editions are available to those willing to leave an honest…

This title was reviewed for the Newtown Review of Books

This novel of murder and military intelligence in wartime Melbourne is inspired by history.

While The Holiday Murders isn’t, sadly, a new William Powell book, Robert Gott has delivered another masterful crime novel steeped in Australia’s past.

For the full review:…

I was recently nterviewed for a great e-zine called Write 2 Be, published for the artists who like to remain strictly out of the box. Please give it a read.
http://write2bemagazine.com

The time is the 1960s, the war is Vietnam, and the place is a remote US signal intelligence spy base in the  boondocks of Northeastern Thailand, but much of the rest is the same.  A bunch of brainy, irreverent, rambunctious, unmilitary draftees battle by-the-book lifers with results that are by turns humorous and grimly ironic.  The draftees are spooks, not docs, and the mission of the 7th RRFS at Ramasun Station is figuring out just what is going on in Southeast Asia, not…

A late post this week because I was off to Black Belt Camp on Thursday.

Once again, I must admit I didn't write the basic points to this blog. I did, however write the details under each point. This blog is credited to author Will Lavender, who I met at the 2012 Killer Nashville conference. He presented this seminar on plot fundamentals.

I enjoyed this seminar even though I'm a…

In Kings River Life Magazine this morning we have a great mystery short story by Andrew MacRae http://kingsriverlife.com/02/23/strangers-well-met-an-original-mystery-short-story/

We also have another mystery TV Flashback from Deborah Harter Williams. This one is one of my personal favorites-"Spenser For Hire"…

Bottom line: free on Kindle today and tomorrow.

Next to the bottom line: I’m cruisin’ hard for reviews and think you’ll enjoy this enough to give me some stars.

BAILIN’ started life as a screenplay.  But if there is one thing harder to sell than a novel, it’s a movie script.  So, on the advice of TVwriter.com guru Larry Brody, I started “reverse adapting” my scripts—novelizing the…