Release Day is 12/5/22
Sister! is on pre-order now!
The 1st Draft of Sister! is finished!
And Now the Fun Really Begins
The first draft of the seventh book in the Natalie McMasters Musteries series is finally finished. It came in at about 72,000 words. It’s easily the most complex Natalie McMasters tale I’ve ever written.
I’ve scheduled the launch of the Kindle edition for December 5, 2022, with the paperback to follow soon afterwards. Between now and then I’ve got to produce a second draft and an edited, finished copy.
As for my earlier books, I’ve hired RaBT Book Tours to handle publicity chores and run a five-week blog tour starting in January. I’ll publish the blog tour schedule here when I have it.
It’s still not too late to join the street team for Sister! and receive an advance review copy (ARC). If you join, you’re making a commitment to read the ARC and to post a review on Amazon during release week. If you want to join, let me know through the contact form on this website.
Big News!!
Killers! has been chosen as a finalist for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for the best books of 2021 in the Action/Adventure category!
The winners will be announced at the conference awards dinner on Saturday, August 20, 2022.
Here is your 3M Detective Agency newsletter
Here is the latest 3M Detective Agency newsletter. https://mcusercontent.com/…/daed0a…/3Mnewsletter_4_5.pdf
Great News!
I just got notice that I’ve been accepted to exhibit at this years Williamsburg Book Festival!
And the winner is…
My Latest Sherlock Holmes Story is Here!
The latest offering of new Sherlock Holmes stories from Belanger Books, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson – The Early Adventures, is out as a three-volume set. Volume 1 contains my latest story, The Adventure of the Persistent Pugilist. Set immediately after the events chronicled by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in A Study in Scarlet, it’s an offbeat tale of Holmes’ investigation of the murder of a sitting member of the House of Lords. It gives insight into Watson’s state of health in those early days, as well as his first exposure to some of Holmes’ more unusual methods of investigation. It’s available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Dr-Watson-Adventures-ebook/dp/B081V29MFD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2SGQ0X9Z4LAS7&keywords=sherlock+holmes+and+dr.+watson+the+early+adventures&qid=1578405207&sprefix=Sherlock+Holmes+and+D%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-1 .
THE GREAT STRIPPER! AUDIOBOOK BLOG TOUR
To kick off the Stripper! Audiobook in a professional manner, I’ve organized a blog tour during the months of November and December. I’ll have different guest posts on each blog, so be sure to check them all out. I’ll edit this post to add more dates as I get them, so be sure to revisit it periodically.
| 10/29/19 Mysteristas https://mysteristas.wordpress.com/ 11/1/19 Mystery Writing is Murder https://mysterywritingismurder.blogspot.com/ 11/2/19 Type M for Murder http://typem4murder.blogspot.com/ 11/3/19 Auntie M Writes https://auntiemwrites.com/ 11/4/19 Your Tax Matters Partner https://yourtaxmatterspartner.com/# 11/6/19 Maggie King’s Blog http://maggieking.com/blog/ 11/11/19 Judy Penz Sheluk Blog http://www.judypenzsheluk.com/blog/ 11/14/19 Heather Weidner’s Blog http://www.heatherweidner.com/ 12/4/19 Chicks on the Case https://chicksonthecase.com/ Date TBD Dec-19 Do You Write Under Your Own Name http://doyouwriteunderyourownname.blogspot.com/ Date TBD Vox Lit http://www.voxlit.co.uk/ | |
One Door Closes, Another Door Opens
In my mind, one of the most important characteristics of Natalie McMasters is her exuberance and unbridled optimism (true, it often gets her in trouble, but that only makes for a good story). So when the narrator for the audiobook of Stripper! quit last week in the middle of the project, I had to channel Nattie to summon the optimism to deal with adversity.
I went back on the ACX website and started hunting narrators again. I contacted over a hundred to find the first one, and I was sure that I’d have to do the same thing again. Only this time, I had a release date and I was already scheduling a blog tour.
Luckily, it only took a few days to receive an audition from Lisa Ware, of Voices from LSWARE. (Check out her website https://lswareonline.com/) Listening to her narration, it was like I was sitting in the 3M office with Amos, Danny and Nattie! I immediately contacted her to propose that she narrate Stripper!, and she accepted!
Ms. Lisa S. Ware – Storyteller Extraordinaire
So the audiobook project is back on track. When it’s released in November, I will have have codes for listeners to get a free copy in exchange for a review on Audible. The number of codes is limited, so sign up early to make sure you get one. I’ll soon be making an audiobook page for the website with the sales info and other material–watch for it.
My Latest Sherlock Holmes Story is Coming Soon!
My latest Sherlock Holmes short story, The Witch of Ellenby, will appear in Volume XVIII of the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, which is being published as a set of three volumes, XVI to XVIII. The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories is the world’s largest collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, and the theme of the stories in the latest three volumes is Whatever Remains… Must Be The Truth. This means that the stories must have a supernatural element, but the mystery must have a mundane explanation. The collection contains forewords from Sherlockian author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Roger Johnson of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London.
All of the stories in this collection are cannonical pastiches, which means that they are written in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories. The Witch of Ellenby is set in 1899. The majority of the action takes place in the village of Ellenby, in England’s beautiful Lakes District, where Holmes and Watson have been summoned to investigate a case of witchcraft. Steve Emecz of MX Publishing recently interviewed me about my contributions to the series and about my Natalie McMasters Mysteries (available on this website on The Books tab).
The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories is the brainchild of its editor, David Marcum, one of the world’s leading Sherlockians. In 2015, he wanted to create a new collection traditional Holmes stories in Conan Doyle’s original format, and partnered with MX Publishing to do so. The decision was taken to donate all of the royalties from the project to the Stepping Stones School for special needs children, housed at Conan Doyle’s former residence, Undershaw. As with previous volumes, all the royalties from the collection are being donated to Stepping Stones .
The new books are currently available for pre-order at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxpublishing/mx-book-of-new-sherlock-holmes-stories-vols-xvi-to-xviii) in hardback, paperback or electronic format until 5 September 2019. You are encouraged to pre-order, because this will help the publisher to defray publication and shipping costs. The three volumes will be published in October.