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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, …

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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 …

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