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Misa Ramirez / Melissa Bourbon Ramirez

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http://www.goodreads.com/MelissaBourbonRamirez

born

The United States

gender

female

website

http://misaramirez.com/

twitter username

melissabourbon

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Romance

member since

February 2009

About this author

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Melissa Bourbon, who sometimes answers to her Latina-by-marriage name Misa Ramirez, gave up teaching middle and high school kids in Northern California to write full-time amidst horses and Longhorns in North Texas. She fantasizes about spending summers writing in quaint, cozy locales, has a love/hate relationship with yoga and chocolate, is devoted to her family, and can’t believe she’s lucky enough to be living the life of her dreams.

She is the author of the Lola Cruz Mystery series, A Magical Dressmaking Mystery series, and is the co-author of The Tricked-out Toolbox and two romantic suspense novels to be released in 2012.

Series:
* Lola Cruz Mystery

* A Magical Dressmaking Mystery Series, written as Melissa Bourbon

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Killer Characters

Muses aren't killers...at least not usually! Today I'm talking about my sometimes absent muses at Killer Characters. Come on over and read an excerpt of Pleating for Mercy. It's officially a bestseller!!

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Published on August 12, 2011 05:49 • 56 views • Tags: cozy-mystery, dressmaking, gemma-halliday, killer-characters, melissa-bourbon, misa-ramirez, paranormal-cozy, sewing

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Books by Misa Ramirez / Melissa Bourbon Ramirez

Average rating: 3.84 · 534 ratings · 115 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Pleating for Mercy (A Magical Dressmaking Mystery, #1) by Misa Ramirez / Melissa Bourbon Ramirez (Goodreads Author), Melissa Bourbon 3.90 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Living the Vida Lola (A Lola Cruz Mystery #1) by Misa Ramirez / Melissa Bourbon Ramirez (Goodreads Author), Misa Ramirez 3.73 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Fitting End (A Magical Dressmaking Mystery #2) by Misa Ramirez / Melissa Bourbon Ramirez (Goodreads Author), Melissa Bourbon 3.84 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Hasta la Vista, Lola! (A Lola Cruz Mystery #2) 3.55 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Bare-Naked Lola (A Lola Cruz Mystery #3) by Misa Ramirez / Melissa Bourbon Ramirez (Goodreads Author), Melissa Bourbon Ramirez 4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	The Lola Cruz Christmas Story (A Lola Cruz Mystery #Prequel) by Misa Ramirez / Melissa Bourbon Ramirez (Goodreads Author), A.J. Ramirez (Illustrator) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Deadly Curse 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Chain Tree 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Tricked Out Toolbox: Promotion And Marketing Tools Every Writer Needs by Melissa Bourbon, Tonya Kappes (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Tricked-Out Toolbox by Tonya Kappes (Goodreads Author), Misa Ramirez / Melissa Bourbon Ramirez (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	My rating:

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Series by Misa Ramirez / Melissa Bourbon Ramirez

A Magical Dressmaking Mystery (3 books)
by Misa Ramirez / Melissa Bourbon Ramirez (Goodreads Author), Melissa Bourbon

3.88 avg rating — 334 ratings

A Lola Cruz Mystery (4 books)
by Misa Ramirez / Melissa Bourbon Ramirez (Goodreads Author), Melissa Bourbon Ramirez

3.77 avg rating — 187 ratings

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Obsidian (Lux, #1)

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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

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Misa Ramirez made a comment in the group Entangled in Romance — Team Manny or Team Jack? topic "Who do you love more, sexy Jack Callaghan, or muy misterioso Manny Camacho? Weigh in here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/8... "
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Misa Ramirez made a comment on Bare-Naked Lola (A Lola Cruz Mystery #3) — Team Jack or Team Manny? "I'm writing the next book in the Lola Cruz Mystery Series and have been asking people if they favor Soul Mates or Love Triangles. The answers are mixe...more "
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