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February 26, 2018
A Crime Writer Interview: Nancy Lynn Jarvis
Welcome to our second Crime Writers’ Interview! Our goal is to bring to you, our readers, some new and interesting authors and books for your reading pleasure.
Because books are not toasters. We don’t just buy one every few years. They are more like clothes. (Or for some of us, food!) We need a sustainable supply.
So please help us welcome Nancy Lynn Jarvis.
Nancy Lynn Jarvis was a Santa Cruz, California, Realtor® for more than twenty years before she fell in love with writing and let her l...
February 19, 2018
Love Your Pet Day (Books for Dog Lovers)
by Kassandra Lamb
Here’s this “off” week’s something interesting… Did you know that today is “Love Your Pet” Day?
I’ve recently joined a group of authors who write books with dogs in them. Here’s this month’s collection (romances and mysteries), some of which are on sale or free. Some sales end today; some begin today, so jump on over to the landing page to check them out.
We blog here at misterio press about twice a month, usually on Tuesdays. Sometimes we talk about serious topics, and som...
February 12, 2018
Beta Men Make the Best Husbands
by Kassandra Lamb
Hubs and I will be celebrating our 42nd Valentine’s Day this week. I’m not sure he’s even aware of this but Valentine’s Day is a particularly special day for our relationship. You see, I decided I could marry this man on the first Valentine’s Day we celebrated together. (It took him another 2 weeks to catch on and actually propose.)
I’ve been writing some romantic suspense stories lately, and I recently took a little informal survey of my romantic suspense readers. One of...
February 5, 2018
A Fun Book For You: Life Begins When The Kids Leave Home (And The Dog Dies)
by Kassandra Lamb
Here’s your fun and/or interesting thing for our “off” week here at the misterio press blog. One of my fave people and one of the funniest women alive, IMHO, has written a humor book: Life Begins When The Kids Leave Home And The Dog Dies.
Being a dog lover (and I knew she’s one too) I wasn’t too sure about the last part of the title, but she reassured me that it is from an old joke:
A priest, a minister and a rabbi were talking about when life begins. The priest said: “Lif...
January 30, 2018
A Crime Writers’ Interview: Katherine Bolger Hyde
Welcome to our first Crime Writers’ Interview! Our goal is to bring to you, our readers, some new and interesting authors and books for your reading pleasure.
Because books are not toasters. We don’t just buy one every few years. They are more like clothes. (Or for some of us, food!) We need a sustainable supply.
So please help us welcome our first interviewee, Katherine Bolger Hyde.
Katherine has been immersed in books her whole life as a reader, writer, and editor. She lives in the redwoo...
January 22, 2018
Not One But Two Contests!
Hi, Folks!
As we’ve mentioned before, we’re only doing true blog posts every couple of weeks now (so we can spend more time writing new books for your reading pleasure) but I promised to keep an eye out for fun and/or interesting stuff to share with you on the “off” weeks.
This week, our own K.B. Owen has TWO contests going, one for free audio books and one for ebooks, paperbacks and more! Click HERE to check them out, plus a fun post about researching the 19th century.
Cozy Winter Audiobooks...January 15, 2018
To Resolve, Or Not To Resolve
by Kassandra Lamb
image by Pixabay, CC0 (public domain) Wikimedia Commons
The end of a year and the beginning of a new one is a natural time to review what has come before and look ahead to how one may want to do things differently in the future.
I took an informal survey of some of my friends and fellow authors to see how folks felt about New Year’s resolutions these days. A few still make resolutions, while most said they prefer the term “goals.”
But even here the approach varied, from meti...
January 8, 2018
Shannon’s Unrest Story and 2018 Changes on the Blog
Happy New Year, Everyone!
In order to spend more time writing great stories for you all, we’ve decided to cut back a bit on our blogging schedule in 2018. We will be posting every other week, unless something particularly interesting or cool comes up during the “off” weeks.
This week’s interesting thing is this post by misterio press co-founder Shannon Esposito on her own blog:
by Shannon Esposito
I just watched this documentary UNREST by Jennifer Brea, about her life after sh...
January 2, 2018
House Guests High Jinks
by Gilian Baker
Ever had a house guest you thought would never leave? You may have just experienced this over the recent holiday season.
Even the most patient among us would agree that having house guests can be 
taxing. According to Psychology Today, it’s normal to feel stressed when you put someone up. Even someone you love dearly!
This is due to the shift in control from us to our guests. They are essentially in charge, and we do anything and everything we can to please them.
This lack of...
December 23, 2017
Doggie Doings Over Christmas Break
by Kassandra Lamb
Our blog is officially on hiatus over the holidays, but I thought I’d divert you to a fun post on my site about a dog’s view of the world. Plus below are some YouTube renditions of some of my fave Christmas songs, to keep you humming your way through the holiday season!
A Dog’s Dictionary to Describe the World
I took my dog for a walk the other day. And as I was dragging him away from his fascination with a crumpled leaf in the road, I thought about how the world must seem t...
