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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,...
June 4, 2018
A Crime Writers Interview: The Fascinating Peggy Townsend
We are pleased to bring you another crime writers interview, this time with the fascinating Peggy Townsend, who has just released her very first mystery novel.
Why do I say fascinating? Read on!
An award-winning newspaper journalist, Peggy Townsend has reported stories that ranged from the trial of a murdering mortician to an Auschwitz survivor’s fight to get back the portraits she’d painted in the death camp. When Peggy isn’t writing, she loves to run and ski and she has rafted wild rivers,...
May 27, 2018
How One White Cop Changed Thousands of Black Kids’ Lives
by Kassandra Lamb
(public domain, Wikimedia Commons)
Memorial Day is about honoring the men and women in our armed services, especially those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. We at misterio press, despite being wordsmiths by trade, find that words are not always sufficient to express how much we appreciate all members of the military for all that they do and all that they have given up in order to keep our country safe!!
This Memorial Day I’d also like to honor another type of hero who s...
May 14, 2018
A Belated Happy Mother’s Day! (and an “off” week contest)
by Kassandra Lamb
image by Urbanphase, CC-0, public domain)
And in case you didn’t see this elsewhere, I’ve got a contest going for all these goodies below. If you’re interested, pop on over to my website page to enter. The page is password-protected because this contest is just for our true readers.
Click HERE and the Password is KATE
Contest runs until 5/21/18. Winner will be announced on my website and via my newsletter on 5/25/18.
Note: We will be doing two “off “weeks in a row (today a...
