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Off-Week Goodies: June Book Reviews

by Kassandra Lamb ~ Here are some June book reviews for you.

Check out my full reviews of these books over on my website here.

Murder On the Road, An Italian Village Mystery, by Adriana Licio

Book 1 ~ free on KU, $2.99 to buy

Great setting and peeks into Italian culture. Four fingerprints

Death in the Time of Ice, A People of the Wind Mystery, by Kaye George

Book 1 ~ $0.99

An unusual mystery. Think Clan of the Cave Bear meets Nancy Drew. I really enjoyed it. Four...

Crime Writers Interview: Vinnie Hansen (Plus a New Release)

Usually we use Crime Writers Interviews to introduce you to new authors outside our little group, but occasionally we interview one of our own. Today, we bring you a crime writers interview with Vinnie Hansen.

Vinnie Hansen fled the South Dakota prairie for the California coast the day after graduating high school. After surviving a career as an English teacher, her eventual home in Santa Cruz served as the backdrop for her Carol Sabala mystery series. Black Beans & Venom, the seventh ...

A New “Beach Days Are Here” Contest!

Announcing a new contest on misterio press, to celebrate the beginning of summer.

Win this fun book-themed beach blanket and five signed paperbacks!

Runs from 6/1/22 to 6/18/22.

Click here for more details and to enter!

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A Pacifist’s Gratitude for the Military

by Kassandra Lamb ~ I’m rerunning one of my favorite Memorial Day posts, expressing gratitude for the military, even though I am a pacifist (in most cases). It seemed appropriate, considering world events lately.

(Note: the following are the opinions of this author and do not necessarily reflect those of the other misterio press authors.)

I’m a pacifist by nature.

I abhor violence. I know that sounds weird coming from a murder mystery writer, but fiction and reality are two differen...

The Nexus Between Murder Mystery Games and Cozy Mysteries

by Kirsten Weiss ~ Have you ever played murder mystery games at parties?

I’m a huge fan, though I’ve only played a few. Maybe the appeal is that they’re a lot like cozy mysteries. The crime is bloodless. The focus is on solving a puzzle. And they’re a lot more fun than an actual murder. The games, like cozy mysteries, are all play, no trauma. The body is discovered, the game’s afoot, and hilarity (hopefully) ensues.

But the games I was familiar with always required X number of males and fe...

Resolving Conflict Effectively (An Encore), Plus a New Collection

by Kassandra Lamb ~ I’m still up to my elbows in editing so I thought I’d re-run a post I also mentioned recently in my Trust Your Gut post; this one is on resolving conflict effectively.

It seems appropriate right now. With so much rancor in our society these days, we need to learn how to dig beneath the surface and find common ground and positive solutions.

Here’s one of the ways we can resolve conflict effectively…

I first learned this model in a video in graduate school many (many,...

Job Description of a Mother

by Kassandra Lamb ~ I know I’ve been running a lot of encore posts lately. That’s partly because I’m up to my elbows in rewrites and editing of my next book. But also partly because I’m finding some great old posts that deserve to be re-run. Like this one on the Job Description of a Mother!

Motherhood is probably the most difficult job any woman ever attempts. And yet most of us take on the job with little foreknowledge of what we’re getting into. So I thought I’d come up with a job descripti...

An Off-Week Goodie: The Gift of Fear

by Kassandra Lamb and Kirsten Weiss ~ Following up on my post last week, Trust Your Gut, here is a free master class that Kirsten found on The Gift of Fear.

Presented by Gavin de Becker, who has written a book by the same title (a national bestseller), it is clearly laid out in six YouTube videos, running between roughly 30 to 45 minutes each.

Here is a quote from the introduction to the first video that ties right in with last week’s post:

We all have a nuclear defense system – our i...

Trust Your Gut ~ An Encore (Plus a New Release!)

by Kassandra Lamb ~ Since I’m elbow deep in editing right now (To Bark or Not to Bark is coming soon!), I figured this was a good time for a re-run of the popular post, Why Trust Your Gut? I mentioned this post in my recent series on Forgiveness.

And we have a new release for you, a psychological suspense story from Shannon Esposito, in which “trust your gut” is definitely a theme.

Why do we call it a gut feeling anyway?

Probably because fear and anxiety are often felt in the stomach…...

Happy Easter/Happy Passover!

Happy Easter/Passover to all our peeps, from misterio press! photo by Sebastian Staines on Unsplash.com

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