cj Sez: Carolyn Haines’s Familiar Legacy Mystery
Series hosted a Facebook launch party July 14 (Flag Day and Bastille Day).
For the few who don’t know her, Carolyn Haines is the USA
Today bestselling author of more than 70 books. She is a recipient of
the Harper Lee Award for Distinguished Writing and the Richard Wright
Award for Literary Excellence, as well as the "Best Amateur Sleuth"
award by Romantic Times. Haines
writes in a number of genres, from cozy mystery to horror and short fiction.
She got her start in publishing in romantic mysteries with one savvy black cat
detective called Familiar. She's delighted to bring back the first Familiar
stories—and to
introduce Trouble, son of Familiar, in a delightful new Familiar Legacy series
which will feature a number of talented authors (and cat lovers!).
Books in the Familiar Legacy Series are:
Bk 1 Familiar Trouble by Carolyn Haines
launched July 10 and is available on Amazon.
Bk 2 Trouble in Dixie by author Rebecca
Barrett has a launch date of August 14 and is available now for pre-order on Amazon
Rebecca Barrett writes historical fiction, post-apocalyptic
fiction (writing as Campbell O’Neal), children’s stories, and short stories of
life in the South. An avid reader all her life and a product of “front porch”
socializing, she became a story-teller at an early age. Trouble in Dixie features that handsome, sleek, black cat
detective, Trouble.
Bk 3 Trouble in
Tallahassee by Claire Matturro is scheduled to launch September 12
Bk 4 Trouble at
Summer Ranch by Susan Tanner will launch in October.
More new titles in the series are scheduled to launch in
2018.
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In other publishing news, the publisher for “Bad Day at
Round Rock,” my historical fiction short story in The Posse anthology, has
co-written another Western novel. California
Bound, co-authored by John O’Melveny Woods and Frank Kelso, is being
introduced in two steps. The cover reveal is scheduled for July 19, 8 to 9 p.m.
CDT on Facebook . . . https://www.facebook.com/CABoundBook/
The novel is scheduled to launch on August 16 also at 8 p.m.
CDT with an interactive Facebook party. The launch comes complete with prizes.
Be sure to stop by and leave a comment for a chance to win. Here’s a trailer
snippet for California Bound:
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One of the blogs I follow is that of
author/editor/blogger-supreme Hope Clark at http://www.fundsforwriters.com Her “Funds for Writers” blog has been on the Writer’s
Digest’s 101 Best Websites for Writers list every year since 2001.
Anyway, to quote Hope:
“Writing well takes
time. It isn't an instinct. You are not born with it. You do not accidentally
write a stupendous tale. You develop this talent with hard work and a crazy
number of hours invested in making your craft better.”
That means all writers, but especially aspiring writers,
need to participate in workshops, critique groups, conferences, and read relentlessly
in the genre they write. Before a writer can develop his/her own writing voice,
s/he must read the good works of other published authors.
To inspire you to look at your own work-in-progress, I’ll
leave you with one of Elmore (Dutch) Leonard’s famous first lines:
“Chris Mankowski's last day on the job, two in the
afternoon, two hours to go, he got a call to dispose of a bomb.”—Freaky Deaky (1988)
That’s all for today, folks. You-all guys keep on keeping
on, and I’ll try to do the same.
cj
PS: Click on the highlighted book titles for the buy
link.
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