No, I’m not talking about committing a crime. 😀 Criminal Negligence is book two in the Sydney Valentine Mystery series and will be available on Amazon on October 10th. Currently, it’s available for pre-order. If you’re also a subscriber to my newsletter you’ll receive the first two chapters in my newsletter tomorrow, September 26th. Lucky […]
Continue readingI had a new cover created for my short story, See No Evil. Thank you, Deborah, of Tugboat Design! Even though it’s a short story, I still wanted it to coordinate with The Protector cover. As much as I enjoy creating covers, I just didn’t have time to do it myself. Deborah did a great job. […]
Continue readingHey, cozy mystery lovers! Joanne Phillips is offering her book, MURDER at the MAPLES, FREE from today until Monday on Amazon. It’s a cozy romance-mystery. This is the first book in the Flora Lively series. Go get it! I did. 🙂
Continue readingThis is a short excerpt from chapter two of The Protector. Detective Sydney Valentine and Bernie (her partner) are discussing an incident from Sydney’s past, before law enforcement. Her best friend committed suicide after her rapist was acquitted. Sydney begins this conversation. “Two weeks after the trial I found her in her room lying on her bed. She […]
Continue readingGet The Protector ebook on Amazon! When the body of a social worker is found on the stairway inside the building where she works, a mouthful of Scrabble letters tells Detective Valentine that this is not a random killing. And it’s not. A brutal killer with a sinister connection to Child Protective Services is prowling the […]
Continue readingSydney here. Some of you may be happy to know that I got in trouble for the blog hijack last month. Go figure. I’m supposed to apologize. Yeah, like that’ll ever happen. Some people just don’t appreciate good help. I also helped with the new book cover for The Protector. I hope you’ve all read it by now. If […]
Continue readingI recently worked with Deborah, of Tugboat Design. I saw her interview on Mary Rosenblum’s blog.  Thanks, Mary. 🙂 I contacted Deborah after browsing the covers on her site. Her covers are great! I think her designs are better than most of the small press covers I’ve seen. She’s won awards for her cover designs and […]
Continue readingHi, everybody! I’m Detective Sydney Valentine and I’m hijacking this blog today. Don’t all cheer at once. The reason I’m here is because I’ve got something to say. For those of you who’ve read The Protector, you know that I always have something to say. Hey, that’s not a bad thing! For those of you who […]
Continue readingMary Rosenblum, of The New Writer’s Interface, emailed me last week and asked if I wanted to be involved in a blog tag chain. It involves answering four questions. I thought it would be interesting and fun to participate, so here we go. What am I working on? I’m currently working on promoting my first novel, The […]
Continue readingSmashwords.com is having a promotion, starting tonight! It’s “Read an Ebook Week”. I’ve enrolled The Protector. It will be priced at $2.00 (regular price is $3.99). The coupon code: REW50. The coupon code is only valid on Smashwords.com. The promotion starts at 12:01 Pacific time tonight and ends at 11:59 on March 8th. The Protector: […]
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