Welcome to a Sunday and the growing number of people that follow this day of posting. We have a double header for you, two novels at opposite ends of the spectrum but both provocative and worthy. The Target by Bill Bowen was an emotionally challenging read for me. Most that know me think I am challenged in many ways, but this novel made me take pause and think a bit more than others that I had read in this genre to date. Here is the synopsis and the author’s…

A while back here on CrimeSpace, I wrote about having trouble placing a piece of "crime flash non-fiction." It just didn't fit into any of the e-zines out there. Too crime-y for the flash non-fiction journals. Too real for the crime flash fiction 'zines. Too short…

A Rodin sculpture was creatively acquired, in other words stolen, from the Israel Museum, now mind you this was bronze; heavy stuff, that bronze.

Yet, it was removed from the premises, granted this was not a huge piece by Rodin, the estimated weight was about 140 pounds and it was approximately 50 lbs but hardly something you can put in your pocket or under your clothes and walk out without someone noticing an odd appendage lurking about on your person.

How…

A small publishing house called Trestle Press is coming out with an anthology of 12 short stories featuring my dark eyed hit man character, 'Smitty.'

What do you think?

It's all over when the sun goes down and the ghouls eat the people who didn't read an eBook this week.

If you're interested, this is the last day Smashwords will offer my eBook for free. Get it here: http://bit.ly/a9dXSN

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Maui is all about sun, sand, surf...and now murder in my hot new police procedural and medical mystery, MURDER IN MAUI: A Leila Kahana Mystery.

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Cops go after bat wielding deadly female vigilante with a beautiful judge the chief suspect.



“A clever mystery with many suspects.... Vividly written, this book holds the reader’s…

When you run into the sort of problems I've had with my three publishers, you begin to question your masterplan for the series.  Thank God for fans who'll write to tell you that you are not to blame.

Dear Ms. Parker,



I just finished reading the “News and Events” page on your web site and was shocked to read that your publisher has done such a dismal job promoting such a wonderful series. I ran into the first book accidentally a year or so ago at…

Less than two weeks ago, I read some stuff that opened my mind to the possibilities and opportunities presented by e-books. I did a complete about face and went from being totally disinterested in them to becoming very enthusiastic about them. Perhaps the most insightful observation made to me regarding this was that I was initially looking at e-books from the point of view of a reader who would far rather have a 'proper' book, and moved to the standpoint of a writer who wanted to be able to…

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 - Friedrich Nietzsche

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Today I talk about Amanda Hocking, an amazing ebook success story, on my blog Another Writer’s Life - http://ascamacho.blogspot.com

LINK:Writers Tricks of the Trade: Y is for You Don't Say…

The hallowed holiday ends March 12. So how are things going? Sold any eBooks? Discovered any new authors? Decided yet if you'll write it "e-book," "ebook" or "eBook?"

I found a pile of new authors I want to read, many of them exclusively publishing electronically.

Which brings to light the other conundrum of this week. I don't own an e-reader. I'm still addicted to print.

Isn't there a cheap gateway drug to e-readers out there? I just can't see…

I work at www.thecopia.com, which is an ebook store in BETA. We are giving away 7 free quality eBooks (Brave New World, Slaughterhouse Five, A Passage to India,  Shoeless Joe etc)

The only mysteries we are giving away are of the Harlequin variety.

By the way: Copia eBooks are…