C.S. Poe's Blog, page 25

Short story sale!

Short stories by C.S. Poe are on sale for 99 cents each at Dreamspinner Press until 11:59 EST tonight!

Love Has No Expiration: A May/December relationship between a private chef and vet tech.

Love, Marriage, and a Baby Carriage: Penguin shifters meet at a singles' convention.

That Turtle Story: Opposites attract and a grouch meets a tourist with a heart of gold that turns his holidays around.

New Game, Start: An introverted scholar falls for a famous gaming celebrity.

C.S. Poe in Europe

Four countries
Three book and reader events
Two weeks of traveling
And less than one week before I jettison off!

March 14, London: Reader meetup with fellow authors, Bru Baker, Rhys Ford, and TA Moore! Be sure to RSVP here for an evening of drinks, book chat, and swag!


March 15 - 18, Paris: Salon du Livre with book signings all weekend at publishing booths: Dreamspinner Press, Juno Publishing, Reines-Beaux, and MxM Bookmark.


March 21 - 24, Leipzig: Buchmesse with book signings all weekend at the D...

World Book Day sale

It's World Book Day! All of my Dreamspinner Press and DSP Publications novels are on sale March 5th and 6th for $4.00 each.

That includes whodunit murder mystery, Southernmost Murder, featuring a feisty and reluctant, narcoleptic sleuth and his FBI Special Agent boyfriend.

As well as contemporary romance, Color of You, featuring a high school band director with synaesthesia, falling in love with an apple orchard owner in small town, New Hampshire.

Lights. Camera. Murder.

Gay mystery-romance anthology, Footsteps in the Dark, releases May 2019 with a cover reveal coming soon! Featuring novellas by, LB Gregg, Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon, Dal MacLean, Z.A. Maxfield, Meg Perry, SC Wynne, and myself!

Here's the first line of my work, Lights. Camera. Murder.: Sin was a man in a three-piece suit.

Stay tuned for more exciting information!

February Reads

In continuing with my self-promise to make more time to read and review this year, I've been enjoying some old favorites before I jump into new releases this March. I didn't manage many books this month, but February was full of even more deadlines, if that were possible. The Mystery of the Bones is in edits, I'm working on a novella for the Footsteps in the Dark anthology, recasting some audio, and let's not forget planning my trip to Europe for Salon du Livre and Buchmesse!

Here are my BookB...

Southernmost Murder audio update

Thank you to my readers and listeners for your patience in regard to the audiobook release of Southernmost Murder. This title has been re-contracted, and I hope you'll join me in welcoming a new voice to our genre, Wyatt Baker!

There is no scheduled release date yet, as Wyatt has just recently been brought on board, but the audio will be out in 2019. Once he's wrapped principal recording and submitted the book to DSP Publications, I will be able to share an exact date.

Pre-order with Reines-Beaux & Juno Publishing

Reines-Beaux and Juno Publishing now have pre-orders available for Salon du Livre! I would love to sign your book in Paris next month.


Le mystère du Corbeau
C’est Noël et tout ce que désire l’antiquaire Sebastian Snow, c’est que sa boutique se porte bien et sauver sa relation cachée en déclin avec l’agent de police scientifique, Neil Millett. Lorsque son magasin, l’Antique Emporium, se fait cambrioler et que l’on retrouve un cœur sous le plancher, Sebastian ne peut s’empêcher d’enquêter sur ce...

London Reader Meet-Up!

I will be in London next month and hope to meet many of you at our Reader Meet-Up! Check out the details below, and be sure to RSVP!

Day: Thursday
Date: March 14, 2019
Time: 5:30 - 8:00PM
Location: St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel, The Booking Office
Attending Authors: Bru Baker, Rhys Ford, TA Moore, C.S. Poe

RSVP on our Google Form here

I will also be attending the Salon du Livre from March 15 - 18, as well as Buchmesse in Leipzig from March 21 - 24! I hope, if you cannot attend our London event, I wi...

Devil Take Me translation

Devil Take Me, featuring Hawk, Moore, Hale, Ford, Price, and myself, has been sublicensed to MxM Bookmark for translation into French. An ETA will be announced once the anthology has worked through the production process.

Translation release day

It's release day for my first book translations!

MORD IN KEY WEST (Southernmost Murder, German ed.)
Aubrey Grant lebt im Stadtviertel Old Town des tropischen Paradieses Key West, hat ein hübsches Häuschen, eine schnuckelige Vespa und die großartige berufliche Aufgabe, das denkmalgeschützte Anwesen eines ehemaligen Kapitäns zu verwalten. Beim Besuch seines angehenden Freundes, dem erfolgreichen FBI-Agenten Jun Tanaka, der sich bei ihm etwas Erholung gönnen möchte, kann selbst Aubreys Narkolepsie...