Continue reading "If you write under a pen name, who knows your real identity?"
Since you write under a pen name, which people in your life know that you’re a writer? When I started writing I had to make a decision about how “out” I wanted to be. I decided to use a pen name to make sure my academic research and my mystery stories didn’t show up together …
Does Jana know you're doing this? Does she approve?
Q: What is Kindle Worlds? A: Kindle Worlds is authorized fan fiction offered by Amazon. Sinful Science is written in Jana DeLeon's Miss Fortune world, the bestselling series that starts with Louisiana Longshot (free to download). "Miss Fortune" is Fortune Redding, a CIA operative who's forced undercover in Sinful, Louisiana (pop. 253) after an arms dealer puts a multimillion dollar price …
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#Giveaway and interview: Who Invited the Ghost to Dinner?
>>>Enter to win a copy of the e-book by leaving a comment: Aside from Who Invited the Ghost to Dinner, what is your favorite paranormal mystery?<<< Cam Shaw is hoping that her life will be ghost-free from now on. But that hope dies with the appearance of Mac “the Faker” Green, a wise-cracking ghost from …
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What would you name your autobiography? And other questions from Amy Metz
What would you name your autobiography? “Let me get back to you.” Seriously, procrastination is a struggle for me. Read more: A Blue Million Books: FEATURED AUTHOR: FRANKIE BOW KEEP UP WITH PROMOTIONS, EVENTS, AND NEW RELEASES: Blog | Facebook | GoodReads | LinkedIn | Twitter | Mailing List
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Why did I start writing murder mysteries anyway?
What inspired you to write your first book? I was exercising on the elliptical machine and reading a popular murder mystery—I’m not going to say what it was or who the author was. I read a passage that was supposed to be funny, and in the book all of the characters laughed and laughed, to …
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Spotlight and #Giveaway: Ninja Librarian Rebecca Douglass, Death by Trombone
>>>Enter to win a signed paper copy of Death by Trombone<<< JJ MacGregor's very bad day has just gotten a lot worse. JJ thought starting the day without coffee was a disaster, but now there's a dead musician behind the Pismawallops High School gym. His trombone is missing, and something about the scene is off …
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Help me choose a cover for the next Molly Barda mystery, The Black Thumb.
The Black Thumb When Professor Molly Barda witnesses a gruesome incident at the Pua Kala Gardening Club, she has no intention of playing amateur detective. But when she’s pulled into the murder investigation, she begins to uncover the tragic truth behind a century-old haunting. The Black Thumb is an exploration of love, gardening, death, house-hunting, mistaken identity, rebound relationships, …
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What's Yat?
Now, I’ve been to New Orleans a few times. I’ve bundled up to watch the Mardi Gras floats, sweated through sultry summer nights, savored fresh-shucked oysters and sugary pralines and those innocent-tasting frozen cocktails known as Hurricanes. How could it be that I’d never heard Yat spoken? The thing is, I probably had. But to me, …
The power of fanfic: it dominated bestseller lists, spurred a rash of ER visits, and may have saved Barnes and Noble.
In 2011 the fanfic landscape shifted when a writer named "Snowqueen's Icedragon" self-published her collected fanfic works as a book, now known as Fifty Shades of Grey. Fifty Shades quickly dominated bestseller lists, spurred an epidemic of sex toy-related ER visits, and may have even saved Barnes and Noble. Source: Please Welcome Mystery Author Frankie …
No joke: We have a guest post from Cathy Ace today!
APRIL FOOL? NOT MY FRIEND! Knowing I’m going to be visiting this site on April 1st has made me think of retirement. You might wonder why this would be the case…a good friend of mine thought it would be the best possible day to retire, so today she’ll turn up at her office for the …
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