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Launch Day

 The tomb is now open.

Sherlock Holmes comes face to face with the boy king Tutankhamun and his curse. The Strange Case of the Pharaoh's Heart. Available today on Amazon and wherever books are sold.
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The Butterfly Cage review

When you pick up a Delafield and Malloy mystery you can be sure you’ll find certain elements: it will include every class of society, from debutantes to prostitutes; a wide expanse of geography, in this case from Manhattan way out west to Wyoming and way down south to Panama; a cast that brings historical figures to vivid life, from Buffalo Bill to William Howard Taft–and It will focus on issues as urgent today as they were a hundred years ago: in this case, the trafficking of young women. A...

Tom Robbins

“Challenge every single sentence; challenge it for lucidity, accuracy, originality, and cadence. If it doesn’t meet the challenge, work on it until it does.”

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John or Paul?

As an artist, which are you? Lennon or McCartney? The raw or the cooked? There are those artists who want to dig into themselves, confess themselves, use their souls as their source material. And then there are artists who hide behind their art, who use their art to please, to put on a hundred different masks. I think it’s true no matter what medium you work in: writing, acting, painting, etc. I adore Lennon, but I’m definitely a McCartney, hiding behind the voice of John Watson. (Not that a...

ARCS

Good news: if you’re an Edelweiss reviewer, my third Sherlock Holmes novel, The Strange Case of the Pharaoh’s Heart, is now available for advance reviews. Reviews are the lifeblood of any book, so I’d love it if you Weissers would download and read.

Available for download HERE

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Cover Reveal

Okay…here it is, the cover reveal for The Strange Case of the Pharaoh’s Heart. Sherlock Holmes takes on the curse of Tutankhamun, along with Dr. Watson and the mysterious medium Estelle Roberts. Releasing March 19th from Seventh Street Books. Available for pre-order here on Amazon and most other places now.

Cover by the inimitable Jennifer Do.

Oh, and that’s an Egyptian scarab on the cover, not a flying cockroach. That’s my story, anyway.

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Heads up!

A pub date has been set for book number three, The Strange Case of the Pharaoh’s Heart, in which our world-famous sleuth (along with the indefatigable Dr. Watson) investigates the curse of Tutankhamun: March 19, 2024.

And though it’s several months off, I’d really appreciate you pre-order (should you want to order) as it gives my publisher more confidence in me when it comes to deciding whether to publish my fourth book(which I’m hard at work on as we speak).

Pre-order no...

Review: Go Find Daddy

Launch date: Tomorrow, 7/11!

Modern society is a minefield, and was even before Covid-19. But there was a lot of discussion at the height of the pandemic as to how writers should handle such an event. Ignore it?—or plunge into it? Steve Goble elects to skip it, but in doing so he (intentionally) shines a light on its aftermath, and what it means to us going forward. The waning of trust—in institutions, in each other seems to have accelerated to dangerous new levels. A lot of readers were wait...

All fiction is historical

I have slowly come to the understanding that all fiction is historical fiction in that every character must be placed within his historical context which, unless all the characters are the same age as the writer, means that every character must come equipped with his own set of historical markers, which may influence his outlook and behavior.

For instance, in my work in progress, my antagonist is 52, my protagonist 36, and my second lead 28. If my story take place in 2023, that means they we...

Secrets and Spies book review

Let’s start off the month with a review of Secrets and Spies, the newest installation in Trish MacEnulty’s Delafield&Malloy Historical mystery series:

The moat entertaining part of the Delafield & Malloy historical mystery series is the sleight-of-hand the author uses to place her sleuths at the center of historical events. Some  historical writers use a crowbar; Trish MacEnulty uses a scalpel.

The setting this time is 1915. America has not yet formally entered the war, but it’s hinted ...