As the rain pours today after a week of cold temps, and seeing this is Friday the 13th, I'm looking for a little Irish luck (and possibly an Irish lass to stroll by) as I pick up this week's featured author, William Doonan, and we transport to Kilronan which is on the Aron Islands of the west coast of Ireland. We're sitting in teh pub of a bed-and-breakfast Mr. Doonan…

Book Title:   POET'S COTTAGE

Author:  Josephine Pennicott

ISBN:  9781742610894

Location:  Tasmania

Publisher:  Pan MacMillan Australia

Year of Publication:  2012



Poets had always lived there, the locals claimed. It was as if the house called to its own...



When Sadie inherits Poet's Cottage in the Tasmanian fishing town of Pencubitt, she sets out to discover all she can about her notorious grandmother, Pearl Tatlow. Pearl was a children's writer who…

Karen Bonvillain Bull re-edited her first book, content, and had me design a new cover for it.  The new cover is a more appropriate one for the subject matter.  Karen and I started a publications business: Southern Oaks Publishing.  If you require assistance with proof reading, formatting for printed and digital books and cover designs, please contact us at SouthernOaksPublishing at hotmail.com.…

Assassin Hunter - print form and ebook

"Assassin Hunter:  A True Crime Story"

 This is a non-fiction account of one of many undercover assignments by August "Gus" Palumbo, a retired special agent with the ATF. It is a riveting, "lock-jaw" thriller that puts you in the seat with Gus in…

James Rollins is the pen name of American veterinarian James Paul Czajkowski who is a writer of best-selling, adventure-thriller series such as Sigma Force. Thanks to the wild success of his books, he gave up his veterinary practice in…

My new book "Hunt for a Killer" is stilll in process.

I've been reading a number of Nordic mystery/thriller authors lately, but Yrsa Sigurdardottir was the first Icelandic author I've read. Indeed, she is known as 'Iceland's Crime Queen.'

Yrsa's recurring character is lawyer Thora Gudmundsdottir. In…

My review of the Write Stuff conference, held every March in Allentown, Pa., is now up at Elaine Ash's Ashedit blog. I'll give you a one-word summary here: recommended.

http://ashedit.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/write-stuff-conference-2012/

Norwegian Crime Fictions are not simple copycats of the more well-known Swedish versions; they have the atmosphere and spirits of their own. From Jo Nesbø to Karin Fossum, the country has introduced a long list of high quality writers to the world in the last 30 years.

What comes next is a compilation of 10…

The following blog is now appearing at The Vincent Zandri Vox: http://vincentzandri.blogspot.fr/2012/04/hate-amazon-well-read-about-what-random.html#.T4RtpdWM6So…

Most everyone likes free. I'm asking for some additional reader feedback and I'm making my second novel available for free on Amazon's KDP process this week. Link - …

13 Kindle books will be free this coming Friday the 13th (April 13th) for one day only, including my mystery/romantic suspense novel Sink or Swim about a personal trainer who attracts a stalker after appearing on a reality show and returning to her normal life.

 The participating authors have a publishing history that includes Dutton, William Morrow, Dell, Avon, MIRA Books, St. Martin's Minotaur, and Mainly Murder Press. Readers will discover mystery, suspense, romance and…

The first author videos from Left Coast Crime are up in the new issue of Kings River Life. We have an article where Lee Goldberg talks about working on "Diagnosis Murder", "Monk" and "The Glades" and at the end is our very fun video interview with Lee http://kingsriverlife.com/04/07/the-goldberg-variations/

We also have an article from mystery author Victoria Heckman where she talks about working with a small press…

Calling all CSI lovers out there, I’ve got a challenge for you.

I love finding interesting tidbits and fun facts when I’m researching for my books.  I came across a ten-question quiz related to crime.  I or should I say, Emily Stone missed one – number #9.

These are actually tough.  Try your luck and see how well you know crime history.  I’ve posted the answers at the…

Near the end of August 2011, I attended the Killer Nashville writers’ conference. This was my third year and this time, besides meeting some wonderful people, authors, readers, and fans, I was honored to be invited to sit on a discussion panel. The seminar dealt with the subject of writing combat scenes.

For a moment I felt touch of an inferiority complex because the other three gentlemen on the panel had accumulated between them about 90 years of experience in the military…

Parker Bilal is the pseudonym for Jamal Mahjoub. Born in London and brought up in Khartoum, Sudan, Mahjoub originally trained as a geologist and has written six critically acclaimed literary novels which have been…