Inkspot News - February 14, 2009 (Happy Valentine's Day)

G.M. Malliet made the headline of the Murder Circle!

Keith Raffel has this week's entry over at the Rap Sheet in their series of great but forgotten books. Check it out.

Joanna Slan was a guest last night at http://www.blogtalk radio.com/Circle-Of- Seven She also did a scrapbook crop at For Keeps Sake, 4530 Lemay Ferry Road, in St. Louis.

InkSpot News - 21 June 2008

Terri Thayer will be signing Wild Goose Chase at Barnes and Noble in the Pruneyard, Campbell, CA on Wednesday, June 25th at 7pm. Stop by and say hi.

Terri will be signing during Shop Hop By the Bay at Always Quilting in San Mateo. Stop by Friday, June 27th from 1-4pm to get your specially signed copy.

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Friends of Mystery wants to know what your favorite mysteries are. Between now and August 1, 2008 Friends of Mystery is collecting and compiling fan favorites in the categories of cozy, hardboiled and thriller published in 2007/2008, as well as favorite author and all-time favorite mystery. To share your favorites, use My Favorite Mystery online form, or or mail your favorites to FOM, P.O. Box 8251, Portland, Oregon 97207.

Results will be published in the September 2008 Blood-Letter, the newsletter of Friends of Mystery.
 
 

InkSpot News - 14 June 2008

At the invitation of (Agatha winner for best first novel) Hank Phillippi Ryan, G.M. Malliet is guest blogging June 18 at Jungle Red Writers. Jungle Red is the group blog of authors Jan Brogan, Roberta Isleib, Hallie Ephron, Rosemary Harris, and Hank Phillippi Ryan.

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Jess Lourey will be signing copies of August Moon, the latest in her Lefty-nominated Murder by Month series, on Saturday, 6/14/08, from 12-2 at Victor Lundeen's in Fergus Falls and 4-6 at Book World in Alexandria. She'll also be appearing at Fitger's in Duluth from 6-7:30 on Thursday, June 19, and the Duluth Barnes & Noble from 4-6 on Friday, June 20. Stop by and say hi!
 

InkSpot News - 10 May 2008

Congratulations to InkSpot's own Felicia Donovan for her Barry Award nomination for BLACK WIDOW AGENCY. Felicia joins the nominees in the category of Best Paperback Original. Congratulations, Felicia!

DEATH OF A COZY WRITER, G.M. Malliet's first novel, made its debut five weeks early, and is now available for purchase in stores and online. Her article about how Cozy came by its title will appear in the next issue of Mystery Scene Magazine.

And, last but not least, our very own illustrious, gorgeous, and fabulous MI author Sue Ann Jaffarian will be guest blogging at Cozy Chicks this Saturday, June 7th, on the saucy topic of sex in mysteries. Get ready to take a cool shower!

InkSpot News - 10 May 2008

Jess Lourey is currently on a virtual blog tour promoting August Moon, the just-released fourth book in her Lefty-nominated Murder-by-Month series. Check out her website (www.jesslourey.com) for links to the tour and to learn about about August Moon and the Murder-by-Month series.

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Tom Schreck's second Duffy Dombrowski Mystery, "TKO" has been released and is available at all the usual places. "On the Ropes", the first in the series was a finalist for Best First Mystery by Crimespree
Magazine and at the Love is Murder Convention where it was also nominated as Best Suspense Mystery.

Tom is featured on the cover of Crimespree this month along with fellow fighter and mystery writer Mike Black.

Tom is the guest author at the world famous Michigan Basset Waddle next weekend May 16-17 in Southfield Mi where thousands of bassets and their human food slaves will gather. Tom wants everyone to know that he was chosen over James Patterson and Stephen King. Tom will be signing books(and giving the proceeds to basset rescue) and is auctioning off a chance to name a character(dog or human) in his third Duffy mystery "Out Cold."

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Friends of Mystery wants to know what your favorite mysteries are. Between now and August 1, 2008 Friends of Mystery is collecting and compiling fan favorites in the categories of cozy, hardboiled and thriller published in 2007/2008, as well as favorite author and all-time favorite mystery. To share your favorites, use My Favorite Mystery online form, or or mail your favorites to FOM, P.O. Box 8251, Portland, Oregon 97207.

Results will be published in the September 2008 Blood-Letter, the newsletter of Friends of Mystery.

InkSpot News - 3 May 2008

Friends of Mystery wants to know what your favorite mysteries are. Between now and August 1, 2008 Friends of Mystery is collecting and compiling fan favorites in the categories of cozy, hardboiled and thriller published in 2007/2008, as well as favorite author and all-time favorite mystery. To share your favorites, use My Favorite Mystery online form, or or mail your favorites to FOM, P.O. Box 8251, Portland, Oregon 97207.

Results will be published in the September 2008 Blood-Letter, the newsletter of Friends of Mystery.

Friends of Mystery is a non-profit literary/educational organization headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Its purpose is to promote educational study in all realms related to mystery. Members are interested in fiction, true crime, how mysteries are solved, and many other aspects of knowledge that can be included in the term mystery.

InkSpot News - 19 April 2008

G.M. Malliet is guest blogging today at the Cozy Chicks blog on the topic of What Does a Cozy Make, courtesy of Midnight Ink author J.B. Stanley.

She will also be moderating a panel at Malice Domestic April 26 on this topic.

InkSpot News - 5 April 2008

Terri Thayer will be signing books at her local Starbucks on April 13th from 1-3pm.
North Park Plaza
1704 Oakland Rd
San Jose Ca 95131

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Bill Cameron will be appearing at Murder With Friends, hosted by Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, Wednesday, April 9 at 7:00pm. The event will feature 13 Pacific Northwest authors in a casual, get-to-know-you setting.

InkSpot News - 29 March 2008

G.M. Malliet will be at the Virginia Festival of the Book, which runs
from March 26-30.

Learn more at the Virginia Festival of the Book website.

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Felicia Donovan, author of THE BLACK WIDOW AGENCY series will be hosting a reading at the Rochester, NH Public Library on Saturday, April 5th at 1PM.

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Bill Cameron will be appearing at Murder With Friends, hosted by Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, Wednesday, April 9 at 7:00pm. The event will feature 13 Pacific Northwest authors in a casual, get-to-know-you setting.

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Tom Schreck's On the Ropes and Tim Maleeney's Stealing the Dragon were two of the five finalists in the Crimespree Award for Best FIRST BOOK OF 2007!

Sean Chercover's Big City, Bad Blood won the honors.

Lost Dog named a Spotted Owl Runner Up

Lost Dog is a runner up for the 2008 Spotted Owl Award and named a great read for 2007 by Friends of Mystery. Congratulations to Kate Wilhelm, winner of the 2008 Spotted Owl for A Wrongful Death!

InkSpot News - 19 January 2008

Sue Ann Jaffarian will be at the following events in the next few weeks:

Saturday, January 19th, 3:00 – 5:00; Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, with Harley Jane Kozak, Patricia Smiley and Kathryn Lilley.

Saturday, January 26, 11:00 – 4:00; Mystery on the Menu, Cerritos Library, 18025 Bloomfield Avenue, Cerritos, CA (This is a ticketed event. For more information call (562) 924-2474.)

LAUNCH PARTY for Thugs and Kisses, Sue Ann's latest Odelia Grey adventure! Saturday, February 2nd, 5:30-7:30, Mystery Bookstore, 1036C Broxton, Los Angeles, CA (Westwood). This will be a joint launch with Christa Faust, who will be celebrating the release of her book Money Shot.

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Bill Cameron will be making the following appearances:

PORTLAND
Sunday, January 27, 5pm
Murder by the Book
With Gregg Olsen

BEAVERTON, OREGON
Wednesday, January 30, 7pm
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
With Gregg Olsen

InkSpot News - 1 December 2007

Give a Dog A Home for the Holidays. Bill Cameron is giving away FIVE copies of Lost Dog this holiday season. To learn more and to enter to win, just fill out the form at Give A Dog A Home by December 15, 2008. Five winners will be selected at random and the puppies sent out the following week. Other prizes are also available.

InkSpot News - 10 November 2007

Benetech Bookshare.org adds Bill Cameron's Lost Dog to its huge and growing library of online books for the community of visually impaired and otherwise print disabled individuals. As the Bookshare.org About Us page explains, "This online community enables book scans to be shared, thereby leveraging the collections of thousands of individuals who regularly scan books, eliminating significant duplication of effort. Bookshare.org takes advantage of a special exemption in the U.S. copyright law that permits the reproduction of publications into specialized formats for the disabled."
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Felicia Donovan will kickoff the Portsmouth, NH Public Library's Book Talk series on Monday, November 19th at noon. Please visit www.feliciadonovan.com for more details.

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Tom Schreck will be at Murder and Mayhem in Muskego, WI and moderating a panel on Minnesota Mysteries.

InkSpot News - 3 November 2007

Keith Raffel will be appearing at the following events this week:

Sunday, November 4, 2007
Noon to 3.00 PM
Book Signing
Kepler's
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park CA, 94025
650.324.4321

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
11.00 AM
Speaker at Jewish Book Fair Luncheon
Cypress Lake Country Club
6767 Winkler Road
Ft. Myers, FL 33919

Saturday, November 10, 2007
4.00 PM
Discussion with Rabbi Larry Raphael on Jewish Detective Fiction
Congregation Beth Am
26790 Arastradero Road
Los Altos, CA 94022
650-493-4661

Keith wishes everyone Happy Jewish Book Month!

InkSpot News - 27 October 2007

Midnight Inker Sue Ann Jaffarian will be the guest blogger today at The Writers Plot blog (www.writersplot.typepad.com). Drop on by and say hello.

InkSpot News - October 13, 2007

Candy Calvert is interviewed by Connie Payne of "Once Upon a Romance"

Lynn Sholes & Joe Moore will sign their new thriller, THE HADES PROJECT at Poe House Books in Crystal River, FL on Saturday, October 20 from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM. THE HADES PROJECT is the third in their award-winning Cotten Stone series and is currently being translated into Portuguese, Greek, French, and 6 other languages.

InkSpot News - 15 September 2007

Tom Schreck's launch party for ON THE ROPES, A DUFFY DOMBROWSKI MYSTERY is Saturday night at Albany's famous dive , The Orchard Tavern. Music by The Jailhouse Rockers, book sales by The Bookhouse and the booze is on Tom.

InkSpot News - 1 September 2007

CANDY CALVERT is interviewed by bestselling romance author, Lori Wilde. Visit loriwilde.com/news.html to learn more.

InkSpot News - 1 September 2007

CANDY CALVERT's third cruise mystery, MAI TAI TO MURDER, will be officially launched at a Caribbean-theme party hosted by Read All About It Bookstore, 305 S. Main Street, Boerne, TX. The event takes place Saturday September 8th, 1-3PM and includes cake, tropical champagne punch, reggae music and door prizes. Calvert will sign copies of DRESSED TO KEEL, AYE DO OR DIE, and MAI TAI TO MURDER.

Candy Calvert will be keynote speaker for the Washington State Emergency Nurses' Assn. "Learning From Murder" Symposium Friday, October 19th 8:00-5:00 (Book signing included)
St. Joseph Hospital (St. Luke Education Center)
3333 Squalicum Parkway
Bellingham, WA
information: http://www.wa-ena.org

Candy Calvert will present "A Nurses Guide to Murder" followed by a
booksigning at Village Books, Friday October 19, 7PM
1200 11th Street, Bellingham, WA 98225
Free and open to the public.

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Midnight Ink author MARK TERRY announces that both THE DEVIL'S PITCHFORK and THE SERPENT'S KISS will be published in the following languages by the following publishers:
FRENCH: Ada Editors, Inc., Quebec, Canada
GERMAN: Verlagsgruppe Lubbe GMBH & Co., Germany
SLOVAK: IKAR/Euromedia Group, Slovakia

Mark Terry will also be at the following events:

Saturday, September 8, 2007, 11:00 AM
Mystery Author Brunch
Orion Township Library
825 Joslyn Road
Lake Orion, MI 48362

Saturday, September 8, 2007, 1:30 PM
Mystery Author Event
Romeo District Library
65821 Van Dyke
Washington, MI 48095

Sunday, September 9, 2007, 3:00 PM
Kerrytown BookFest
Ann Arbor, MI

Mark will be moderating a panel called "Original Voices in Mystery Fiction."

To find out more, visit their website at: www.kerrytownbookfest.org

Sunday, September 16, 2007, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Local Authors Community Book Fair
Sponsored by: The Ridgewriters Group of Farmington Hills
Spicer House in Heritage Park
Farmington Road just north of Ten Mile Road
Farmington Hills, MI

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THE HADES PROJECT, the third installment in the award-winning Cotten Stone series hits the bookstore shelves and online today. Pick up a copy of this non-stop, action packed thriller written by the international bestselling team of LYNN SHOLES & JOE MOORE.

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SUE ANN JAFFARIAN has launched a new Odelia Grey contest. For details go to the Contests page on her website (www.sueannjaffarian.com). Three winners will each receive a signed copy of the upcoming Thugs and Kisses, along with other goodies.

Sue Ann is on the road right now. On Monday, September 3rd, she'll be researching her 5th Odelia Grey novel at Mike's Maze in Sunderland, MA. (http://mikesmaze.com/) If you're in the area come on down and say hello and have some fun.

She also added a new book signing event to the schedule posted here last weekend. On Tuesday, September 4th, 2:30 - 3:30, Sue Ann will be signing books at the Borders in West Lebanon, NH. (285 Plaintfield Rd., #2).

InkSpot News - 25 August 2007

BILL CAMERON Interviewed on Fiction Nation, XM Radio
On August 25th and 26th, check out Kim Alexander's interview of Bill Cameron and Toni McGee Causey, a fun, free-wheeling conversation about their books and the experience of being debut authors and members of Killer Year. If you're not an XM subscriber, you can read Kim's review of their books online.

Hear Fiction Nation on Take Five, XM 155 on Saturday August 25th at 6pm and on Sunday August 26th at 10:00am, and again on Sonic Theater, XM 163, on Thursday, August 30th at 3:00pm. All times EDT.

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SUE ANN JAFFARIAN is heading to Massachusetts and New Hampshire in early September. You can catch her at the following bookstores:

Saturday, September 1st, 4pm
Barnes & Noble Manchester
1741 S Willow St.
Manchester NH 03103

Thursday September 6th, 7-9 pm
Barnes & Noble Mllbury
The Shoppes at Blackstone Valley
70 Worcester Providence Turnpike #5
Millbury, MA 01527

Friday September 7th, 5-7 pm
B&N Bellingham
270 Hartford Ave.
Bellingham MA 02019

Saturday, September 8th, 1-3 pm
B&N Worcester
541-D Lincoln St.
Worcester MA 01605