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Almost 10 years ago, I started writing an interesting literary...

Almost 10 years ago, I started writing an interesting literary murder mystery called Coeur d’Alene Waters. For 4 years, it was agented by the excellent Jeff Gerecke in NYC. And it was turned down, over and over, as “too dark”, “too much about the Pacific Northwest,” or (my favorite) “excellent, but too long for print.”

So I’m happy to announce that my first novel — COEUR D’ALENE WATERS — has been picked up by the Prospero Book Group. Published this week as an e-book for KINDLE :

GET COEUR D’ALENE WATERS ON AMAZON KINDLE http://amzn.to/12gwruG 

And in June in print. Yay! 

The novel is a dark and gritty murder mystery… darker in fact than my current medieval novel. So it may not suit everyone’s taste, but for those who like a midnight atmosphere and an unsolved crime, it may be just the thing. And if you’re interested in genuine Northwest history, there’s a lot of that in here… so enjoy!

aseaofquotes:Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

aseaofquotes:

Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

““Hell is empty and all the devils are here.””

- William Shakespeare (via lesplumesdereves)

"I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them."

“I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.”

- Amy Tan, Saving Fish From Drowning (via larmoyante)

sinfulfolk:My first novel… reprinted.I’m excited to announce...

sinfulfolk:

My first novel… reprinted.

I’m excited to announce that my debut novel Coeur d’Alene Waters - published in 2007 - is finally available on Kindle.

Coeur d’Alene Waters is a dark literary mystery set in northern Idaho, in which I solve the as-yet-unsolved real-life mystery of the Sunshine Mine disaster in 1972.

You can check it out via the Kindle Select Library or buy it on the Kindle shelves at Amazon.

"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable."

“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”

- Louisa May Alcott (via thelowcountrylolita)

My first novel… reprinted.I’m excited to announce...

My first novel… reprinted.

I’m excited to announce that my debut novel Coeur d’Alene Waters - published in 2007 - is finally available on Kindle.

Coeur d’Alene Waters is a dark literary mystery set in northern Idaho, in which I solve the as-yet-unsolved real-life mystery of the Sunshine Mine disaster in 1972.

You can check it out via the Kindle Select Library or buy it on the Kindle shelves at Amazon.

"He asked, ‘What makes a writer?’ ‘Well,’ I said, ‘it’s simple. You either get it down on paper, or..."

“He asked, ‘What makes a writer?’ ‘Well,’ I said, ‘it’s simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.’”

- Charles Bukowski (via peaceblaster)

"We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in..."

“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.”

- Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life (via pavorst)

The first duty of a novelist...

“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”

— Novelist Donna Tartt, author of The Secret History & The Little Friend

(via http://Facebook.com/sinfulfolk )