‘The Taste of Murder‘ has just been released and ‘The Art of Murder‘ (revised) has a new cover and two new chapters.
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In Book 5 in the series The World of Murder, Detectives O’Roarke and Garcia have a cold case dumped on their desk. Despite their objections that they ‘don’t do cold cases’ their Commander tells them that they do now since the new Mayor has asked for them…. Continue reading “FREE BOOK GIVE-A-WAY! The World of Murder”
Book 1 in the World of Murder Series has a NEW Look and NEW chapters. Available now here in my store and at www.amazon.com
New dynamic cover, new title, and new love interest woven through the true crime mystery.
When I wrote this less than a year ago, I thought, ‘just a murder mystery, something fun to try, a different genre,’ and then I’d move on. Little did I know at the time that it would become a popular series and Book 5 has just been published.
So I thought the other day that I should revisit Book 1 and see what I thought about it now, 1+ years later. And this is especially aimed at my fellow writers. Don’t ever be shy about revisiting something you’ve written; maybe you can make it better. Low and behold I discovered that I had not given my readers enough about O’Roarke’s and Garcia’s personal lives and I had neglected to tie up some loose ends.
What I discovered with a critical look at my own work, was that there was more to write! I ended up with 6,000 additional words and new chapters. AND a better story!
If you liked this story don’t miss:
Book 2 ‘Dance of Murder’
Book 3 ‘ Act of Murder’
Book 4 ‘ Angel of Murder’
Book 5 ‘ Taste of Murder’
Book 6 ‘(Beneath the) Bridge of Murder’
Book 7 Video of Murder
Book 8 Shadow of Murder
Book 9 Triad of Murder (Soon to be Released)
Available on e-books and Audio books.
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Another one of my favorite authors, Elizabeth Hoyt writes historic romances with humor.
Q. Where do you write? Do you have a special room, shed, barn, special space for your writing?
A. I have an office—it’s a sun room at the back of the house. I also do a lot of writing at coffee shops.
Q. Do you have any special rituals when you sit down to write? (a neat work space, sharpened #2 pencils, legal pad, cup of tea, glass of brandy, favorite pajamas, etc.)
A. I like to have something to drink—both coffee and water, preferably.
Q. What is your mode of writing?
A. If I wrote in longhand I wouldn’t be able to read the result. 😉 I use Scrivener on an eleven inch MacBook Air.
Q. Do you have a set time each day to write or do you write only when you are feeling creative?
A. I write to deadlines. When I’m on deadline I write. 😉
Q. What’s your best advice to other writers for overcoming procrastination?
A. I find that the bowel-loosening fear of defaulting on a contracted deadline and possibly messing up my entire career is a pretty good incentive to sit down at the computer. If you don’t have a contracted deadline, you need to make your own deadline or goal because the muse may never arrive if you’re waiting on her to write. Continue reading “An Interview with best selling author, Elizabeth Hoyt”
Book 5 in The World of Murder series is now available.
In Book 5 in the series, Detectives O’Roarke and Garcia have a cold case dumped on their desk. Despite their objections that they ‘don’t do cold cases’ their Commander tells them that they do now since the new Mayor has asked for them. Three years earlier the mayor’s brother-in-law was murdered and the case was never solved. The cold case plunges our murder cops into the world of television and competitive cooking shows and their pick of suspects three years cold.
REVIEW: ‘The Taste of Murder is Book 5 in Sugarek’s ‘The World of Murder’ series (previously acclaimed by this reviewer as a tight, compelling series that builds powerful scenarios and believable protagonists) and is especially recommended for prior fans of the books who want a continuation of the same successful devices employed in the previous titles: emotion-driven protagonists and a whodunit scenario that puzzles readers as much as the characters doing the investigating. Continue reading ““The Taste of Murder” Now Available!”
Five out of five quills A REVIEWDarling Beast by Elizabeth Hoyt
There is nothing quite like reading a good, ole ‘bodice ripper’. 1741, London, a gorgeous hero who can’t speak (oh, were they all like that) and a noble, single mother who is reawakened by this handsome man. And this is another exceptional story from storyteller, Hoyt.
A MAN CONDEMNED . . .
Falsely accused of murder and mute from a near-fatal beating, Apollo Greaves, Viscount Kilbourne has escaped from Bedlam. With the Crown’s soldiers at his heels, he finds refuge in the ruins of a pleasure garden, toiling as a simple gardener. But when a vivacious young woman moves in, he’s quickly driven to distraction . . .
A DESPERATE WOMAN . . .
London’s premier actress, Lily Stump, is down on her luck when she’s forced to move into a scorched theatre with her maid and small son. But she and her tiny family aren’t the only inhabitants-a silent, hulking beast of a man also calls the charred ruins home. Yet when she catches him reading her plays, Lily realizes there’s more to this man than meets the eye.
TS. I have been reading Barbara Delinsky for decades! Good, rich stories about believable and appealing people. Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, what better time to promote her stellar book, UPLIFT!
Now for the Interview I have been waiting years for:
Q. Where do you write? Do you have a special room, shed, barn, special space for your writing? Or tell us about your ‘dream’ work space.
A. I have an office over our garage, with windows front and back and four skylights. This makes it bright and sets it apart from the rest of the house.
Q. Do you have any special rituals when you sit down to write? (a neat work space, sharpened #2 pencils, legal pad, cup of tea, glass of brandy, favorite pajamas, etc.)
A. I have no rituals. My desk may or may not be neat, depending on where I am in my book, and I may have tea or a soda or water nearby, depending on my mood. I actually like to vary things when it comes to my writing space and habits. Keeps me fresh.
Q. Could you tell us something about yourself that we might not already know?
A. Growing up, I was no reader. I much preferred playing outside to reading inside. Going through high school and college, I read few books that weren’t required for school. It was only when my children were young and I needed an escape from full-time motherhood that I began to really read.
Q. Do you have a set time each day to write or do you write only when you are feeling creative?
A. I am usually working at my computer by six in the morning, Monday through Friday. Creativity? Some days it’s there, some days not, but I work nonetheless. If what I produce one day is bad, I either edit it the next or ditch it. I do believe that inspiration is 90% perspiration.
Q. What’s your best advice to other writers for overcoming procrastination?
A. Limit your time at the computer. Two hours a day are better than none. Keep at those two hours, day after day, and you’ll eventually have something to show.
Q. Do you ‘get lost’ in your writing and for how long?
A. No. I don’t ‘get lost.’ I cut my teeth as a writer when I had three young sons at home. I stole writing time when they were napping and, eventually, at school. Given that they were my first priority, ‘getting lost’ was a luxury I couldn’t afford.
Q. Who or what is your “Muse” at the moment ?
A. Bloomingdale’s. I tell myself that if I produce something worthwhile at my computer in the morning, I can run to the mall that afternoon.
Q. When did you begin to write seriously?
A. I was thirty-four and starting to look for part-time work when I noticed a piece in the morning paper about women who wrote category novels. They made it sound easy and very do-able while raising a family, so I decided to give it a shot.
Q. How long after that were you published?
A. I spent two months reading the kind of novel I wanted to write, wrote my own in three weeks, sent it to various publishing houses, and got a bid for it six weeks later. I was lucky. I happened to deliver the right manuscript to the right editor at the right time. If I were to do it over again, I might not be as lucky.
Don’t Miss it! Part 2 of this fascinating writer’s life coming on October 9th.
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Three out of five quills A REVIEW With Mother’s Approval
by Mike Wells
When the Seattle Police Department bumbles the investigation of a serial killer who has brutally taken the lives of five women, Detectives Allie and Jeremy Branson take over the case. The husband and wife team work out of the King County Sheriff Department’s Violent Crime Unit and have one of the best track records in the country. But this time around, the Bransons are tested to their limits. Will they catch “The Call Girl Killer,” or will the sadistic murderer continue his spree of horrific crimes unchecked?
If you like extremely incestuous, murderous, cra-cra.…you will love Mike Wells’ latest offering. I know his fans will be ecstatic that he has written another one. Stephen King is all this reviewer’s stomach can handle and With Mother’s Approval goes way, way beyond King’s warped world. I found it a little ingenuous that the Seattle PD was painted with such a broad brush as ‘bumbling’ and totally incompetent. And I couldn’t get my head around Jeremy giggling, given his physical description and demeanor.
It’s well written but not to my taste. I know his fans, old and new, will love it! Going on sale as an e-book TODAY!!!
Don’t miss my Interview with Mike Wells coming in December!
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It was just a few short years ago that being self published was a dirty word. People would call your work a ‘vanity book’ or a ‘one book wonder’. You would have to warehouse 10’s of thousands of inventory for your book and then schlep it around as far as you could. All of that is in the past!We can hold our heads up high, write our work and get it in the hands of our readers for, sometimes, as little as a few hundred bucks. If you don’t hire a graphic designer for the cover, then publishing is literally FREE.
Now here’s the “Good Company” I claimed………….
How Beatrix Potter self-published Peter Rabbit
The aspiring children’s writer was fed up of receiving rejection letters – so on this day in 1901 she self-published a certain book about a naughty rabbit
So many of you have asked how I can be so prolific in my fiction, how I maintain a blog twice a week and interview other authors too. So maybe it would be fun for you if I wrote once in awhile about what I’m doing…..I’m calling it Everything but theKITCHEN SINK because I’m throwing everything into the pot ……..no rhyme or reason.
This week I have the great pleasure to review Peter May’s latest book “The Lewis Man” during his book tour in the US.Saturday my blog will begin my interview with him and he has been so generous with his time and writing processes.
One of my favorite posts coming is how the (; ) smiley face was created back in 1982. After some research I found the original email that first featured these emoticons.
Don’t know if you remember or not, but a few years ago I spent 10 days in Argentina at the invitation of two young professors and their university, National University of Villa María . They teach English (through action) there. The families of Mariana, Marta, and Fiorella hosted me in their homes with dinners, lunches, and Continue reading “Everything but the Kitchen Sink~~(new series) Diary of a Mad Writer!”
Q. How do you get from ‘finished’ book from ‘no book’? (continued)
A. When I am happy with my outline, I can see what and where I still need to research. I make a list of all the locations in the story and I make a point of visiting every one of them. A sense of place is very important in my books, whether it is France, China, or the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. I never write about a place if I haven’t been there. I like to go and take video of the locations, making notes about what sort of things strike you when you are there – the heat, or cold, the smells etc.
When I get back from my location research I will make a short video of each location that I can replay when I am writing the scenes that are set there. Sometimes visiting the locations will cause me to have to change the story outline. I make any changes necessary, then I am ready to write.
Writing the actual book is probably the most difficult and least enjoyable part of the process. I want to get it over and done with as quickly as possible. I adopt a very strict routine that absolutely nothing is allowed to interfere with.
I get up at 6 am, take my breakfast to my desk, Continue reading “My Interview with international best selling author, Peter May (part 3)”
‘The Taste of Murder‘ has just been released and ‘The Art of Murder‘ (revised) has a new cover and two new chapters.
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her authors too. So maybe it would be fun for you if I wrote once in awhile about what I’m doing…..I’m calling it Everything but the KITCHEN SINK because I’m throwing everything into the pot ……..no rhyme or reason.