Today I have a guest post on the Dark Phantom website. I wrote a little post (an article, really) titled “Writing a Murder Mystery and Using Fear.”



I suppose with my background of writing horror stories, using fear in mystery novels comes naturally! But, read my post to see what I have to say. There've been a few comments already on the posting.



Visit:



Dark Phantom



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Tomorrow starts week 2 of my virtual blog tour. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's stop, which will feature a book review of The Dead Guy.



Visit the Literary Menagerie tomorrow to see how the review goes. This reviewer pulls no stops! If she doesn't like the book, she'll say so. Where's the drum roll?



Stay tuned as mystery author Doug Hewitt tours the internet with his novel The Dead Guy.



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I had a great post over at Book Marketing Buzz. So far, there have been seven comments. There is general agreement about The Dead Guy--it has a great cover!



Tomorrow, I appear on Fictionary. I have a post titled "Why write a novel? What's in it for me?"



I think it has some great insights into the mind of a mystery writer, so be sure to check it out!



See ya on the blogging trail ...



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The virtual book tour continues!



For anyone trying to promote a book, I have a guest blog tomorrow at the Book Marketing Buzz website. The title of the blog is Three Strategies to Promote Your Book. It's my first guest post, so I appreciate the opportunity.



To see what I have to say about promotion, go to:



Book Marketing Buzz



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I enjoyed my virtual tour stops today, and it just keeps getting better. One of the promotional ideas I had was to have an



interview with my main character in The Dead Guy, Jack Thigpen. Let's face it; I didn't really give Jack a fair shake, giving him



a fatal, untreatable disease in Chapter 1.



And so what would Jack have to say to me?



Read my interview with Jack Thigpen, and see what he has to say to mystery author Doug Hewitt.



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Today's virtual tour stops were great, but tomorrow's are even better!



You can read a wonderfully insightful review of my mystery novel The Dead Guy at:

Roxi's Random Ramblings.



And there's an excerpt from The Dead Guy (with some of my personal comments) at:

The Plot.



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Mystery Author Doug Hewitt interviewed at American Chronicle

My February virtual blog tour started today. I get interviewed by bloggers and book reviewers all across the Internet.

Today’s interview has some interesting questions about how I became a mystery author and how I came to write The Dead Guy, a Motown Mystery Novel



Check out my personal story at:…

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