Moccasin Cove Mysteries

It is Cover Reveal Time! Amazon & Other outlets-->Pre-Orders open for my debut: ChainLinked-A Moccasin Cove Mystery Release Date: August 30th Thank you misterio press! FRONT COVER! Back Cover & Spine I'll have the full set up for ebook and paperback on Amazon and through Draft 2 Digital in the next few days, including the look inside and author page.  Hope you order and tell all your friends!  After you read ChainLinked, I hope you'll leave a positive review. Thank you!

Hello fellow mystery lovers!  I have been deep in the publishing prep trenches this summer. And thanks to a LOT of help from my friends, I'm past the major worry-hurdles and enjoying a momentary bit of smooth sailing. I have a pre-order launch date and book release date scheduled and plan to do a cover reveal in the next couple of weeks!  YIKES-so much fun! I thought I might do a series logo reveal to tide you over until the big cover reveal day. I created my series logo to depict the genre and the location of the books in the series. What do you think?

  I think horses are beautiful animals, but I was the odd kid out who never longed to be a rider. After reading this article I get the attraction. I hope you'll pop on over to this intriguing post by author Sasscer Hill on the multifaceted world inside horse breeding, training, and racing.  A behind-the-scenes look at the world of #Horse Racing and #Hollywood in today’s #blog post and in Sasscer Hill’s new Nicki Latrelle #mystery Shooting Star https://bit.ly/3z3MVuH via @misteriopress #amreading #thriller

Image Credit: Christina Hernandez on UNSPLASH One of the perks of partnering with misterio press for the upcoming release of my new Moccasin Cove Mystery series is getting to rub virtual elbows with established authors. Today I have the pleasure of sharing a post by author, Kirsten Weiss, who is so well established in the mystery genre that she has six active series and a standalone. I hope you'll check out her fun books, including Unbound , just published and available at the buy links at the end of this post. --Liz What’s a Paranormal Cozy? Thanks, Liz, for letting me post here, and congratulations to you on your Daphne Nomination! That’s a tough competition and a big honor! So. I’m Kirsten Weiss and like Liz, I’m an author with misterio press. (No caps). I write both cozy mystery and cozy paranormal mystery – which just goes to show how much variety there is in mystery genres these days. Liz thought it might be interesting if I defined what both those sub-genres are. So, ...

 AppleJacked is an RWA-Daphne finalist in Unpublished Mainstream Mystery/Suspense! Fast forward to June 26th:  And the winner is....Not me!  But that is okay because I came in Third! Yay, me! Congratulations to Ruth (1st) and Lis (2nd) for your wins.  I look forward to reading your books someday.   For those of you unfamiliar with writing contests, here is my short stump speech about the concept. I have entered contests for several reasons. Of course, I always want to win, but knowing the stiff competition, I have ulterior motives.     1-K now why you are entering.   Is there a prize? Publication? Opportunity to chat with an agent or editor? Or the first thing I look for, is there written feedback from the judges? In the case of the RWA KOD contest, I consider the judges' feedback to be a great reward, win or lose. In every contest where I have received feedback, I may not always agree with some of the comments, but they are always offered from ...

Image Credit: Christopher Hollis, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Christopher_HollisChristopher Hollis for Wdwic Pictures [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons "AARRGH! Vast Ye scurvy readers! 'Tis Gasparilla in Tampa and the city is ours for the takin'!" Sorry for the horrible attempt at pirate-speak, but it's in my blood. Butchering the brogue is expected of Tampa natives. I love this annual tradition that starts with a pirate invasion on a grand ship bedecked with flags and booming cannon fire. The kidnapping of the mayor and an attempted takeover of the city follow.  The festivities include parades, balls, and other charity events. It all culminates in a flotilla and then a traditional street parade and the downing of much alcohol. In my adult years, the wise organizers have added a children's parade, leaving the debauchery to the original event a week later. As a kid, the pirates docked and...

I happen to love reading author Bios and find myself envying those that lean into being quirky. My boilerplate Bio for the past few years is so-so, with one clever line about snakes, but it's not particularly catchy. Because I write a cozy mystery series with humor, murder, and other assorted social maladies, I always wanted my author Bio to reflect my style of writing.  I was reading an article in a recent Funds For Writers newsletter. In it, author, C. Hope Clark wrote about the problem of having to write an author’s Bio. She suggested asking friends and family for childhood quirks or funny memories. That triggered some funny, and COMPLETELY TRUE facts about my childhood and career that I thought might make for a catchier, quirkier Bio. Here is my rewrite: Liz Boeger’s stint as a bikini model peaked in kindergarten. Her fallback career as a mystery author didn’t surface until she hit the mid-century mark. In between, she wrangled children, adults, and the occasional Flori...