…can Kris meet her deadlines over the next two days and manage to write all of the promotional posts she’d planned on? Stay tuned to find out! Here’s the second post on the Hearts Collide Kickstarter. The first post looked at Volume One, which is full of romantic suspense. (The first post also tells you […]
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I had hoped, over the two weeks of the Hearts Collide Kickstarter, to let you know about each book. I had envisioned this as a series of posts, spaced properly, to wet your appetite for the entire Kickstarter. But I was teaching, and my creative voice decided I was going to finish the book I […]
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine just published my newest mystery novelette. “Arboretum Heights” focuses on the murder of a rather unpleasant person in a university town filled with people who dislike the man intensely. So on that level, the story is a classic. Unlikable victim, lots of suspects. But of course, I figured out how to […]
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Wow, you folks are incredible. We hit the second special stretch goal for the Never Before Seen Kickstarter 24 hours before the deadline. Thank you, backers!!! I promised I would tell you all about the stories in this Kickstarter. The idea behind the Kickstarter was to see if we could Kickstart short fiction effectively. You […]
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Dean and I had a fascinating afternoon in the fall of 2019. We were on our way to the gym when we saw an estate sale in a wealthy neighborhood in old Vegas. There aren’t many parts of Vegas that can be considered “old,” but this part is truly iconic. Frank Sinatra had a place […]
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The Never Before Seen Kickstarter is going much better than I ever could have hoped—and that’s because of all of you. Thank you for the support! The Kickstarter features some of my short crime fiction. The stories are original and never before seen. Backers of the Kickstarter will get to read these tales first. I […]
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We are running a Kickstarter which is, as I’ve mentioned in previous posts, quite an experiment. We’ve been trying to see how well the Kickstarter works for those extra short pieces of short fiction that I seem to compose more often than I want to think about. We have six of my short crime stories […]
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Because we need a bit of a holiday right now. Dean & I curated a holiday Storybundle, filled with wonderful short holiday fiction, from whimsical tales to a few dark crime stories. Lots of reading, but the main point of it all is that these are bite-sized stories, things you can read during your very […]
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As I mentioned on Tuesday, we’re doing a short Kickstarter that features six original pieces of short crime fiction. We called the Kickstarter Never Before Seen because those of you who back the Kickstarter will be the first to see these new pieces. So now, I’ll do a short series on what each one is. […]
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One of my favorite parts of this year’s Holiday Spectacular is the merchandise. In the winter, I always cuddle up under a blanket, a cat on top, a mug of tea on the side table, and a book in hand. It’s my idea of heaven. When we designed the merchandise for this year’s Spectacular, we […]
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