Kassandra Lamb's Blog, page 31
August 6, 2018
Romantic Suspense: Sugar and Spice and Things Not So Nice
by Kassandra Lamb and Kirsten Weiss
Both of us have ventured a bit into the realm of romantic suspense lately. Since we already had romances as subplots in many of our mysteries, we thought it shouldn’t be that hard to make the romance a bit more central and call it romantic suspense.
It’s turned out to be a little more complicated than that. So we thought we’d explore for you, our readers, and also for ourselves, our motives and challenges as we’ve ventured into this cross-over genre.
The fi...
July 31, 2018
A Few Quick Goodies on Our “Off” Week
by Kassandra Lamb
First, did you know yesterday was Paperback Book Day? I was trying to get Patches In the Rye‘s paperback out in time for this auspicious day, but glitches happened.
Second, Kirsten Weiss had what I think is a very clever idea. She has a fictional character, one of the Bonheim Witches of Doyle triplets, who is a romance writer.
So she’s publishing in-between novellas in her Doyle Witches’s series that are romantic suspense novellas “written” by her fictional character, Kari...
July 23, 2018
How Do You Feel About Controversy? (And a New Release)
by Kassandra Lamb
Some people don’t mind controversy; a few even thrive on it.
And with social media, these two groups seem to have found their voices more and more lately.
A friend of mine loves political debates online. She finds them stimulating.
But I’m in the group that pretty much hates controversy. I sit on my hands at least once a day, resisting the temptation to get into it with someone on Facebook or Twitter. It just isn’t worth the stress.
In my Kate Huntington mysteries, I have of...
July 16, 2018
A Crime Writers Interview: Mary Feliz
We are very pleased to bring you another crime writers interview, this time with Mary Feliz, who writes the Maggie McDonald Mysteries featuring a Silicon Valley professional organizer and her sidekick golden retriever.
Mary has led an interesting life. She’s worked for Fortune 500 firms and mom and pop enterprises, competed in whale boat races and done synchronized swimming.
She attends organizing conferences in her character’s stead, but Maggie’s skills leave her in the dust. Address to Di...
July 12, 2018
Where our research takes us, and a new release!
by K.B. Owen
I hope everyone in the northern hemisphere is enjoying the summer season! For your leisure reading enjoyment–whether it’s the beach, pool, back porch, or a comfy chair in an air-conditioned room…the next Penelope Hamilton adventure is ready for you! Yes, our lady Pinkerton is at it again, facing her toughest assignment yet, in The Case of the Runaway Girl:
Lady detective Penelope Hamilton must navigate a labyrinth of 1880s politics, high society, and murder.
On a January night in...
July 10, 2018
Posting On Thursday This Week
Image by K.anh.eya.191, CC-BY-SA 4.0 International, Wikimedia Commons
Hey, folks! Mr. Murphy has been running rampant in our lives lately, causing all kinds of minor “things going wrong.”
So this week’s post will be on Thursday. And it will start off our month of new releases!
Thanks for understanding, and if you happen to see that Murphy dude, please chase him out of town. 
July 2, 2018
Happy Independence Day!
We’re doing two “off” weeks in a row, but will probably be posting every Tuesday for the rest of the month, as we have a lot of new releases coming up. So stay tuned!
In the meantime, have a fun and safe 4th of July!!!
We blog here at misterio press about twice a month, usually on Tuesdays. Sometimes we talk about serious topics, and sometimes we just have some fun.
Please follow us so you don’t miss out on any of the interesting stuff, or the fun! (We do not lend, sell nor otherwise bend, s...
June 25, 2018
A Cool Infographic from Kirsten Weiss (and a new release!)
Kirsten Weiss is one of our more prolific authors and has several series going. Three of them are intertwined in that they are all set, more or less, in the same world—the fictional town of Doyle.
One of these, The Doyle Witch Supplements, are romantic suspense stories “written” by one of the main characters in the Witches of Doyle series, Karin Bonheim. (Isn’t that an awesome idea?)
Karin/Kirsten has a new release coming up in two days, Shaman’s Bane. Scroll down to check it out! Available f...
June 18, 2018
Going Short
by Vinnie Hansen
Circa 1979? Golden Gate Park.
Way back, when I was in the graduate writing program at San Francisco State, I had short stories published in the campus literary magazines every semester. This instilled confidence in my writing, but also inflated my ego. I launched into the world thinking I might set the literary world on fire. Instead, after a few years, I realized I needed to eat and went back to school for a teaching credential.
While I still aspired to write books, short st...
June 11, 2018
The Murky Middle
On our “off” week, something interesting for the writers among our followers…
But readers, you may be curious about this too. Do you ever feel like a book slooows down some in the middle and gets a bit draggy.
It’s not your imagination. The middle of a story is the hardest part to write. The writer has to give all the details that will allow the story to unfold and make sense as it moves toward the climax, but also keep the pace consistent with the rest of the book.
Not an easy task. Indeed,...
