My Spotlight column today in the Las Vegas edition of examiner.com is about what a great inspirational city Las Vegas is for authors. LINK: http://exm.nr/spotlightonVegas.

The third and newest Silver Sisters Mysteries caper, currently being edited,  is "Vanishing Act in Vegas" and…

Yesterday was just plain nuts, nuts, I tell you! Here is a brief recap of yesterday’s events, follow along with me and tell me if it wasn’t nuts. Vincent Zandri was nice enough to almost give away a major plot twist in our collaborated digital short story we just finished called: The Gang That Couldn’t Kindle Straight”. I think he was miffed that I let it spill he used my name and some guy named Tolstoy’s name in the same sentence. The exact context of how he used my name in…

I was thinking about really bad ghost stories I have either read or watched (movie or tv form).

They all have the same people in them.



a. people who refuse to walk away from equity - The house is haunted, they won't leave. Dude, seriously, burn the place to the ground, collect the insurance, and then don't worry about the ghost in the bed sheet.



b. weird old person who knows what's going on, won't tell anyone until the last half of the movie - this bugs me in the…

     The rhythm of the resurrecting city of New Orleans is reflected everyday in the unified heartbeat of its determined residents. And no matter the devastation, New Orleanians will continually fight to hold on to their beloved little bastion eight feet below sea level. Like the memory of a first kiss, the warmth of New Orleans pervades your soul and forever becomes a part of you. To travel among the wide oaks and antebellum homes of the Garden District makes for beautiful postcard…

"The Blond Bombshell"

This might qualify as one of the more unusual guest blogs you're ever going to read at the Vox or anywhere else for that matter. But it was the brainchild of Boise-based author, Bri Clark, who herself is one of those rare creatures who…

I hope that your Monday has started off well. Did you have a nice weekend? My posting week is going to be different this week as we have Easter at week’s end and that is generally a busy time at our home. The Scoop will not have any posts on it Saturday or Sunday, so I am going to move everything up a day or two here. Basically everything I normally have on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday will be dropped in on Thursday and Friday. Thanks for understanding. The G-ZONE this week is…

I blogged over at Another Day in the Word Factory about how much I love to write and yet how inventive I can be when it comes to putting writing off. Sometimes the hardest thing to do can be the simplest - sit down with a pen and paper and use the former to put words on the latter, or start typing on a keyboard and see the screen gradually fill up.

I always used to write a first draft longhand. Part…

My bestselling true crime book, THE SEX SLAVE MURDERS, now in Kindle for first time. Chronicles the lives of serial killers Gerald and Charlene Gallego and the sex slave fantasies that fueled kidnappings, sexual assaults, and murder and spawned two major TV documentaries.



"THE SEX SLAVE MURDERS is a gripping account of the murders…

A series I'm trying to write is based off a guy I actually knew.  And didn't know at the same time.  A stranger with a smiling face whom I knew since I was born.  Yet someone holding back a big portion of their life no one knew about.

Go over there and see what I have to say.  Maybe you'll agree with me.

http://noirtaketurner-frank.blogspot.com/

Hello and welcome to Self-Published Sunday. Have you heard of this author? I haven’t; this is my first read on her work. Is it going to my last one, definitely not? Too much going on in this novel not to want more, and there is more because this is actually number two in the series. I can always go back one and enjoy numero uno before she puts out number three. Alright it is Sunday, let’s cut to the chase, get to what this novel is about, and get to reading on this beautiful Sunday, maybe on…

How do you sell ebooks?  By social networking alone?  By thumping the streets with shoe leather to every book store you can find and hawking your wares personally?  Go over and read the blog.  Make a comment.  It doesn't hurt.  Much.

http://noirtaketurner-frank.blogspot.com/

Tess Gerritsen started with romance, but soon realized that dead bodies were where it’s at. At least, dead bodies handled deftly by the two most compelling female series characters in thriller fiction, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Dr. Maura Isles. Her first books were romance novels, but after writing eight of them she switched to medical thrillers. The 25 million books she has…

GHOST GIRL IN SHADOW BAY is my hot new teen ghost and haunted house mystery, now in Kindle, Nook, Google eBooks, and print.



Three years after her father was killed, sixteen-year-old Peyton Delaney, her mother, Melody, and new stepfather, Vance McIntyre, relocate to Shadow Bay, Minnesota and move into an old Victorian.



When…

Now in Kindle, Nook, and Google eBooks, my highly acclaimed new tropical police procedural and medical mystery eBook, MURDER IN MAUI: A Leila Kahana Mystery.



Maui County homicide detective and composite sketch artist Leila Kahana is the protagonist. A Hawaiian native, Leila follows in the footsteps of her grandfather who was the…

In the new issue of Kings River Life we have an interview with mystery/TV writer Lee Goldberg & a chance to win the latest Monk book http://kingsriverlife.com/04/16/lee-goldberg/#sig

We also have an article on how the police are using Facebook http://kingsriverlife.com/04/16/police-social-networks/#sig

and much more!