Award-winning and USA Today Bestseller Lois Winston will be giving a talk on How to Write a Mystery Series at the Sisters in Crime meeting in Jamesburg on January 25th. For more information, please visit https://sistersincrimenj.org/.
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Award-Winning Author Lois Winston’s New Release Drop Dead Ornaments
Congratulations to Lois Winston on her new release, Drop Dead Ornaments, the 7th book in her Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series. For more information, please visit www.loiswinston.com. Here is a short blurb for Drop Dead Ornaments:
Anastasia Pollack’s son Alex is dating Sophie Lambert, the new kid in town. For their community service project, the high school seniors have chosen to raise money for the county food bank. Anastasia taps her craft industry contacts to donate materials for the students to make Christmas ornaments they’ll sell at the town’s annual Holiday Crafts Fair.
At the fair Anastasia meets Sophie’s father, Shane Lambert, who strikes her as a man with secrets. She also notices a woman eavesdropping on their conversation. Later that evening when the woman turns up dead, Sophie’s father is arrested for her murder.
Alex and Sophie beg Anastasia to find the real killer, but Anastasia has had her fill of dead bodies. She’s also not convinced of Shane’s innocence. Besides, she’s promised younger son Nick she’ll stop risking her life. But how can she say no to Alex?
New Releases from Our Members
New Release from Anna DePalo
Congratulations to LSF Writers Member Anna DePalo Author on her new release from Harlequin Desire. Hollywood Baby Affair will be available as an e-book on June 1 and in print on June 6. For more information, please visit http://www.annadepalo.com/.
New Release from M.D. Mascaro
Congrats to LSF Writers Member MDMascaro Author who has a new release release out now. Construction is women’s fiction with a touch of rom-com and is available in e-book. The print version should be available shortly. For more information, please visit http://mdmascaro.wixsite.com/mdmascaro.
Anna DePalo Signs New Contract with Harlequin Desire
Anna DePalo signed a contract with Harlequin Desire for the second and third books in her The Serenghetti Brothers series. Book two, Hollywood Baby Affair, will be out on June 1, 2017.
Vicki Weisfeld Short Stories in the News!
Vicki Weisfeld’s short story “Breadcrumbs” was published in Issue 3 of Betty Fedora, a journal whose tagline is “Crime Fiction for Kickass Women”!; her story “A Slaying Song Tonight” was published in the January/February issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine; and “Burning Bright” will be published by Level Best Books in the anthology “Busted: Arresting Stories from the Beat” in April. Reprints of two of other stories appeared in Kings River Life (10/16) and a John Greenleaf Whittier foundation anthology (forthcoming: April 2017).
Tina Gabrielle has sold a three book cozy mystery series
Tina Gabrielle, writing as Tina Kashian, has sold a three book cozy Mediterranean Mystery series to Kensington Publishing Corp. The first book, “Hummus and Homicide” will be released in 2018.
Eileen Watkins signs 3 Book Deal!
LSF Writers member Eileen Watkins has signed a three-book contract with Kensington Books to launch a new series, the Cat Groomer Mysteries. Her stories will feature 27-year-old Cassie McGlone, who owns and operates a cat grooming and boarding business in the fictional small town of Chadwick, N.J….and ends up solving murders on the side. The first in this series, The Persian Always Meows Twice, has already been accepted and is due out in October 2017. For more information on Eileen, please visit www.efwatkins.com.
#LSFWrites Member Lois Winston Interview
Exclusive Interview with Lois Winston at THE WORLD OF PUNCTUATED PUBLISHING – http://bit.ly/2jsF86x
