My last two book signings of 2010 capped the year nicely.  At Borders in Dulles Town Center I set a new personal record for sales at a Mall store.  The next day I had my first book signing at the giant Borders in White Flint Mall.  It was another super showing, and I suspect lots of people got my novels as…

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.…

I'm definitely starting 2011 on an up note and I'm unashamedly celebrating.

The Cutting...same book, new cover...comes out in the UK this week. Penguin UK is introducing McCabe to British readers with lots of great display in some of the top stores and supermarket chains.

Pat Conroy. Tami Hoag, Alan Furst, C.J. Box and Me! Pretty good company!  The Chill of Night will follow in July.  

A Brit friend found the attached display in WH Smith in…

I read this on my new Kindle; it is the first full length novel I have read on it. I have posted previously that A.J. Pompano’s digital short story was my first use of the device. Overall, the Kindle is an amazing

device and tool. I love it! Oh, yeah the novel by Layton Green: this was as

much fun and just as amazing as turning the pages with the new machine. I don’t

know which I enjoyed more. The originality of the novel, the narrative, the

setting, the…

Who else falls for that? Year round warm weather, sunshine and palm trees...LOL When it gets cold out here it gets cold! Oh maybe not as cold as the East Coast, but it gets cold. But I can't lie, nine months of great weather makes it all worth it. What's the weather like where you're at?

RSB

Hello again and welcome to 2011. I really wanted to start off with a hot one and The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer (to be rleased Jan.11^th) is just that. Are you a conspiracy reader,

someone that loves history, enjoy a good, fast paced novel, then check this one

out. Here is the synopsis:

“So says Benjamin January,…

All Mystery e-newsletter for 2011 is quickly filling up with small press and NY Times best sellers alike. This year’s issues will have monthly themes and starting Jan. 8^th will feature Rhys Bowen, Carol Bridgestock, Geraldine Evans, & Simon Wood. Feb will be Romance, then Paranormal, Exotic locations, Funny Bones, Murder at Work, The Best in…

A frank look at the commercial sex-for-sale industry in the 21st century.



Prostitution—often referred to as "the world's oldest profession"—is flourishing in the digital age. In the United States alone, an estimated $14 billion is generated in annual revenue from the sex trade industry. Worldwide revenue from the commercial sex trade industry is…

My Jack the Ripper eBook thriller, DARK STREETS OF WHITECHAPEL, is now in Kindle and Nook.

In 1888…

My original YA ghost and haunted house mystery, GHOST GIRL IN SHADOW BAY, is now in Kindle and Nook.

Three years after her father was killed, sixteen-year-old Peyton Delaney, her mother,…

Who says that Christmas has to end?  Certainly not Dark Valentine Magazine or Do Some Damage Blog. They have plenty of goodies left to give to the good girls and boys, as well as for the not so good girls and boys.  First up, we're talking thrills, under-dressed chills, milk spills and hamburgers.  We're talking the very first "Dairy Noir" and…

I do hope you'll bear with me, as I work to get my writing muscles back in shape. As part of the Maggie and Della website overhaul, I added two fictional blogs - one for Maggie and one for Della. I've been doing this off and on for years. It's my way of helping the characters develop further relationships with their readers. Blogs and other social media tools are perfect for this. It also helps me develop their voices. In the past I've had problems maintaining the blogs. Time pressures,…

I haven't had my coffee yet but it still looks like a promising day. I plan to do not much, chruch dinner, family and be lazy...lots and lots of lazy. Oh what a life. How is everyone else? Talk to me...

RSB

I've repackaged my earlier e-book original Vampire Crimes with a new cover and new title.  This came from feedback I was getting from readers and others--people were liking the book but nobody seemed to think the older cover was right for it, and everybody seemed to think I could do better with the title. So after a lot of polling, Blood…

Hello, fellow Crimespace denizens. Now that I've had a look around, I thought I'd follow up with a proper introduction.

I'm a 50-something mystery (and fantasy) writer living in the Boston, Massachusetts area. I'm Polish-American and live in the comfy suburb of Arlington, MA with my husband. No kids or pets, although a friend of mine sent me a stuffed cat once, so I left it out on the back of the couch for when the nephews stop by. These days I make my living as a freelance…