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Where are the Wickeds at Malice?

Five of the six Wickeds are off to Malice Domestic at the end of this month. Sherry, Julie/Julia, Edith/Maddie, Liz/Cate, and Barbara will be there. We’ll miss you, Jessie!

Readers, if you’re coming to Malice and you see any one of us, please say hi! We would love to see you in the real world.

Established in 1989, Malice Domestic is an annual fan convention that takes place each year in Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C. Malice celebrates the Traditional Mystery, books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie. The genre is loosely defined as mysteries which contain no explicit sex, or excessive gore or violence.

From the Malice Domestic Website

Where to find us

Specifically, you can find the Wickeds at the following times and places. All panel rooms are TBA.

Friday, April 28,2:00 – 2:50 p.m., Julie/Julia will be on the panel, “Cozy or Traditional – What’s the Difference?”5:45-7:00 p.m., The Wickeds will be at the Sisters in Crime Reception. The reception is open to all SinC members in the Hospitality Suite at the conference. There will be a cash bar and light refreshments. We’d love to see you there!Saturday, April 29, 10:00-11:00 a.m., all 5 Wickeds: Liz/Cate, Julia/Julia, Edith/Maddie, Sherry and Barbara will be signing and giving away their latest books, at the Kensington Author Autographing session in Salon E. Books usually go quickly. Please come see us!11:00 – 11:50 a.m. Edith/Maddie will be on the panel, “A Pinch of Death: Cooking Schools, Contests & Recipes.”3:00 –3:50 p.m. Saturday, April 29, Barbara will be moderating the panel, “Create Your Own Cozy Mystery.”Sunday, April 30,10:00 –10:50 a.m. Liz/Cate will be on the panel “Who’s The Best Furry Sidekick? Cats vs. Dogs.”11:00 –11:50 a.m. Julie/Julia will be moderating the panel “Murder During Wartime.”

With her Sisters in Crime Executive Director hat on, Julie will be spending time at the SinC table. Julie and Edith will be at the banquet.

Hope to see you there!

Readers: Who’s coming to Malice Domestic? Who wishes they were?

Guest- Clara McKenna and a Giveaway!

Jessie: In New Hampshire where the star magnolias have begun to bloom!

I am so pleased to welcome Clara to the Wickeds today. She is one of those writers who delves into such interesting realms in her work. I enjoy her characters, her settings, and her company. I also adore her covers, the most recent of which is her topic for today! According to Clara, writing a Christmas book the year round was both a challenge and a delight. She is offering the choice of one of her first four Stella and Lyndy books to a randomly chosen commenter.

American heiress Stella Kendrick and her husband, British aristocrat Viscount “Lyndy” Lyndhurst, prepare to celebrate their first Christmas together as newlyweds in Clara McKenna’s latest historical mystery set in England’s New Forest region at the turn of the 20th century…

Taking on the responsibilities that come with being Lady Lyndhurst, Stella is eager to embrace yuletide traditions in the Edwardian English countryside and use her strong social influence for good. Her world becomes so consumed with starting a horse farm charity for the holidays that she barely notices the usual oddities attached to her upper-crust lifestyle. At least, not until items vanish from her bedroom and maligned housekeeper, Mrs. Nelson, becomes seriously ill—only to be found dead in the cold on Mistletoe Lane . . .

Cheery spirits are dashed following the sudden death, especially once Stella questions whether her own staff knows what—or who—killed the woman. Her suspicions mount when another person dies under strange circumstances during New Forest’s annual Point‑to‑Point Boxing Day race. Then there’s the case of Morrington Hall becoming plagued by false identities, secret affairs, and disgruntled employees . . .

Now, with two murders unfolding before their eyes in late December, Stella and Lyndy realize they can’t fully trust anyone except for themselves while investigating. Because as disturbing answers come into focus, identifying the criminal responsible and surviving into the new year would be the greatest gift of the season . . .

Here are the pre-order buy links:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/murder-on-mistletoe-lane-clara-mckenna/1142921059

https://bookshop.org/p/books/murder-on-mistletoe-lane-clara-mckenna/19673840

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/murder-on-mistletoe-lane-1

https://books.apple.com/us/book/murder-on-mistletoe-lane/id6445539452

Readers, do you like to read holiday-themed novels even out of season? Do you ever enjoy holiday foods, activities or music at any time of year?

Wicked Wednesday- Prose and Cons

Jessie: Delighted to shed the heaviest of winter layers when walking the dog!

Maybe it doesn’t say anything good about my character, but I love stories featuring con artists. I am particularly fascinated lately by podcasts that tell their stories, including their downfalls. I wondered if the rest of you enjoy tales involving con artists, whether in novels, podcasts, or even film. Or, do you find such characters a total turn-off and avoid them at all costs even in the fictional world?

Edith/Maddie: I’m jumping in here with one of my favorite historical series, Victoria Thompson’s Counterfeit Lady Mysteries. Elizabeth Miles Bates was raised as a con artist, learning from the best – her father. In her now conventional married life, she tries to leave running cons behind but struggles with it, especially when a con seems like the best path to justice. The characters and stories are a delight.

Julie: Edith, thanks for the recommendation! Going on my TBR list. I love reading about or watching fictional cons. The Sting, or The Inside Man, for example. The intricacies of the plotting, the way the reader is surprised, it’s all fascinating when done well. I also enjoy watching documentaries about cons, but find those harder when I think about the victims. I watched a documentary about Bernie Madoff that made my stomach hurt, and made me think a lot about con artists.

Liz: These characters are like a train wreck you can’t look away from! One who stands out to me is Dirty John, the subject of a podcast and also a TV series. This guy was BAD – but the whole experience of taking the journey with the last woman who was conned by him was fascinating. Of course, I felt awful for the women who were subjected to the things he did. Also, I’ve been watching a lot of cult documentaries – and those are the biggest cons! My latest obsession is the NXIVM cult and its horrible leader. I’m obsessed with devouring everything about it, mainly because he had so many people – both women and men – under his con for so long and did unthinkable things to so many people that took many years to catch up with him.

Barb: Sign me up as another one who loves con artist stories. Speaking of Madoff, I had to do some research about affinity scams for my novella Scared Off, which features a con artist. An example of an affinity scam is a Ponzi scheme where the victims are a part of a community, either geographic, ethnic, religious, a fraternal organization, or some other. (Just like the original Ponzi.) These scams are too easy to pull off because as one trusted person vouches for the person, then another does, and ultimately no one ends up really checking the schemer’s history or external references. I always ask myself, “Could I have fallen for that?” It sends a shiver down my spine, even as I tell myself I never would.

Sherry: I love a could con story too and have one in A Time to Swill. Although really, all the murderers in our books are trying to con people into thinking they didn’t do it. And Barb talking about one trusted person vouching for another makes me think of all the fake accounts on social media where a friend is friends with someone so you think — it’s okay if I friend them too. I’m much more cautious than I used to be! I have a book in my TBR pile, Confident Women, by Tori Telfer about con women that sounds fascinating!

Jessie: I found myself nodding my head as I read each of your responses! I am delighted that a fascination with con stories and their protagonists is something we share! Sherry summarized the whole of it so well! Crime does seem to come down to conning others in some form or other.

Readers, do you love con artist stories? Writers, have you ever written a story that features one overtly?

Wicked Word Search

Jessie: In NH, hoping April showers really will bring May flowers!

Today I thought we would bring you something a little different. I am a fan of online puzzles and word searches and I particularly love to make them myself. So to share the fun with all of you I created a word search comprised of words randomly plucked from the back covers of each of the Wickeds most recently released mysteries. The word search can be played online by following the link or it can be downloaded, printed, and played with pencil and paper. If you want to make one of your own it is easy and free! Enjoy!

Readers, do you love word searches, and or other puzzles?

A Book of One’s Own

Jessie: In NH where the black flies have arrived, ravenous and in force…

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the past and how it connects with the present. Maybe it is how adult my children have become or how my dog, Sam, will be five years old in July. Perhaps it is the number of current events that remind me of things in the distant, and not-so-distant past. It could be the novel that I am currently writing.

Whatever explains it, I have been seeing tidbits floating about my world that get me thinking, and looming large has been the relationship between women and books. A little over a year ago I realized a lifelong dream and had the wonderful opportunity to turn an entire room in my home into a library. Sitting in a wingback chair, with a cup of coffee close at hand, surrounded by my collection of books is one of the most luxurious things I can imagine. I am enormously grateful for the chance to have such a space and to have a life partner who is happy for me to do so.

This luxury was made all the more poignant when not long ago I ran across a blog entitled Early Modern Female Book Ownership. I was instantly struck by the realization that as much as I do not take the space where I store and enjoy my books for granted, I had given less thought than I might have done to the fact that for much of the history of books, women rarely owned them. It is not a surprise, of course. Most of us realize that girls were not sent to school in the same number as boys until really rather recently. Many were never even taught to read so there would be no reason to own books.

But the reality of an entire blog dedicated to mentioning the relatively rare examples of female book owners made it all the more real somehow. Seeing examples on screen of their names inscribed in the flyleaves of books from the 1600, 1700, and 1800s, in their own hand, presumably, raised a lump in my throat. If you check out the resources page on the site you can find plenty of other places to explore the topic in more depth.

As such things often occur, not long after I discovered that blog, one of my sons sent me a link on TikTok from an antiquarian bookseller. He made mention of The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing which caught my attention. Apparently, this lover of books was desirous of adding female writers to his personal library when even the likes of the Bodleian at Oxford were not despite their status as a legal deposit library. If you are interested in viewing Rev. Francis Stainforth’s library catalogue, and list of wanted books, you can do so as it is digitized and available on the library’s website. The number of rare books he added to his collection is astonishing and warmed my heart.

It does my heart good too to consider how many of the books in libraries, both public and private, are written by women and published under names recognized as female. In fact, according to a study by the World Economic Forum, as of 2020, more books were published by women than by men. The Wickeds have certainly done their part during the last decade to add to those totals and I am so grateful to count my own 16 published and 3 forthcoming amongst them. I think I’ll celebrate all these positive shifts by curling up in my own library with a great book, written by a woman!

Paris…Food…Julia Child….and Rosie the Riveter?Guest- Colleen Cambridge

Jessie: In New Hampshire where the temperatures have reached 78 degrees!

I am just delighted to welcome Colleen Cambridge to the blog today. She is a vibrant, enthusiastic person and her writing reflects her sparkling personality. If you are not familiar with her new series I suggest your run right out and find a copy!

Paris…Food…Julia Child….and Rosie the Riveter?
by Colleen Cambridge

Those elements the basis for my brand-new historical mystery series and I love every single one of them!

Over the last two years, I’ve been promoting my Phyllida Bright Mystery series, which features Agatha Christie’s housekeeper as an amateur sleuth in 1930s England. I’ve had a blast writing about the world’s bestselling novelist of all time, even though she certainly doesn’t take center stage in those books (Murder at Mallowan Hall, A Trace of Poison). It’s more fun, in my opinion, to be writing a protagonist whose life we don’t know about—like that of Phyllida Bright, housekeeper extraordinaire, but to also have that famous Dame Agatha’s wisdom and insight (and some Easter eggs about her own stories) appear in the book.

My new historical mystery series, known as the An American in Paris Mysteries, takes another famous, groundbreaking female—Julia Child—and gives her a good friend (my protagonist), and then plops both of them in the middle of a murder mystery in the City of Light.

Mastering the Art of French Murder (yes, the title is an homage to Julia’s famous cookbook) takes place in a Paris that is awakening from austerity of the Occupation. It’s December 1949, and the last of the rationing (for coffee) has finally ended. The City of Light is coming alive—her iconic lights have been relit, she’s rich with tourists, the markets are filled with food and shoppers…and Tabitha Knight, a former Rosie the Riveter, has just come to live in Paris with her grandfather.

Tabitha worked at the Willow Run Bomber Plant (outside of Detroit) during the war, but now that the war is over and the troops have returned home and are going back to work, she’s at loose ends. She doesn’t want to be a teacher or a nurse, and she’s definitely not ready to get married and have children…so when she’s invited for an extended visit and to live with her grandfather and his “friend” Oncle Rafe in Paris—she goes!

Because her mother is French, Tabitha speaks the language fluently. She’s also pretty handy with a screwdriver and always carries a Swiss Army knife in her pocket. It’s those two skills—plus the fact that she can’t cook to save her life—that create the foundation of her friendship with another American expat who lives across the street from her: Julia Child. 

Julia and Tabitha go to the outdoor food market daily (where Tabitha, as a single, attractive American, is always a target of goodnatured matchmaking), and Julia guides her friend on what to buy and what to cook that night for dinner for her grand-père and his friend, known to Tabitha as Oncle Rafe. 

One day when Julia and Tabitha return to Julia’s apartment, with their market bags filled with produce, chicken, wine, eggs, and more, they discover that a dead body has been found in the cellar of the building. 

And…Julia’s chef’s knife is lying next to it, bloody and damning.

SPOILER ALERT: Julia Child did not murder anyone!

But when the serious and stoic Inspecteur Merveille begins to look at Julia and Tabitha as potential murder suspects, Tabitha decides she’d rather spend her time trying to prove their innocence than to learn how to make a good omelette or roast a chicken (although she learns how to do both!). 

This book has been an absolute joy to write, and I hope that readers will have as much fun with Tabitha and Julia’s adventures as I did!

Readers, do you love to cook? Have you ever been to Paris?

The Cover Journey of My Theater Cop Series

by Julie, springing in Somerville

I loved the covers Midnight Ink created for my Theater Cop series. But when they went out of business, and I got my rights back, I needed to come up with a new cover. After a couple of false starts, I decided to take on the task, create covers, and go “wide”.

First up, for those of you who don’t know this series, which I wrote as J.A. Hennrikus, let me tell you a bit about Sully Sullivan. Sully is a ex-cop who’s life imploded five years ago when she was forced to retire and found out her husband was having an affair. She went home to Trevorton, MA and was brought in to general manage a theater company. She’s settled into her new life, but when her friend is accused of killing his father, she brushes off her investigative skills.

This series is more traditional than cozy, and was a lot of fun to write. The third book was partially finished when MI closed their doors, and I’ve decided to finish that third book. But first I needed to republish the first two.

Thanks to long ago design classes, and Canva, I found images of stages, and ran them through some filters to make them look like paintings. They look related, but not exactly alike. I’m very pleased with the outcome.

I also learned about indie publishing, and put them on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Bookshop.org and other retailers. They are available as ebooks and paperbacks. They are also available world-wide, which is exciting. Indie publishing is a skillset I am still developing, but technology has made it much easier. New covers may not seem like a big deal, but they represent a lot of thinking and planning. What a business.

So what’s next for Sully, Dimitri and the rest of the crew? I’m writing a short story with some of the characters, which is a fun way to catch up with them. I am also going to finish book #3, and will hopefully get that out within the next year. And finally, I’m going to explore audiobooks, and see if that could happen.

Right now I’m celebrating that the books are available again, and that Sully is telling me new stories.

Readers, I do have a question for you. In my cozies, I am avoiding the pandemic. But in this series, considering it takes place in a theater, I think discussing the pandemic may make sense. What do you think?

Wicked Wednesday-Prose and Cons

Jessie: Enjoying watching birds recently returned from the south.

This month as we discuss prose and cons the question of voice in prose occurred to me. Do you think that voice can be taught or is it innate, like a sort of writerly DNA? Can it be strengthened and developed or does tinkering with it alter it in ways that are not desirable?

Julie: Such an interesting question! I’m part of a collaborative effort for Sisters in Crime–we’re creating a course called Better Your Worlds, Better Your Writing. (There’s a workshop this Saturday on the topic, more information here.) My section was on narrative voice, and I also wrote a thesis on Agatha Christie’s use of POV. Jessie, you’ve experimented with voice from the beginning. I do think that we may have a strength in one voice, first person for me, but part of being a writer is pushing past comfort zones. The current novel I’m shopping is in multiple POVs. I couldn’t have done that ten years ago. I’m also considering a new novel in first person, but in a different genre. One thing about voice that can’t be taught is humor. I may have spurts of funny, but I am not a funny writer. As you can tell, I love this topic!

Barb: The question of voice is a difficult one, mainly because no one can tell you exactly what it is. It’s not prose style, though that’s part of it, or the point-of-view character’s thinking and communication styles, though that may help to transmit it. For me, voice is the storyteller, always present in the background. It is seductive, saying, “Come with me.” It is confident, saying, “I will tell you a great story, a story I believe in.” It is authentic, saying “This is a story that is important to me, from my heart.” It is trustworthy, even in the case of an unreliable narrator. It says, “This story will become important to you, too.” The best way to develop strong voice is to read, read, read, and let it sink into your DNA, like those environmental factors that affect our genes. I don’t know if it can be taught, but it can be learned. While in some manuscripts the voice blasts onto the page from the first sentence, a voice that starts out wavering and thin can become stronger, draft after draft, as the writer becomes more confident in the story and its value to the reader. As the writer is seduced by the story and falls in love with it, the voice can grow truer and more confident, too.

Sherry: Very interesting, Julie and Barb. I think beyond reading it’s write, write, write. I’m not sure voice can be taught, but something Barb said a long time ago helped me with voice. While she was talking about writing a synopsis, it’s also true for finding voice. The first part of the advice is: Pretend you’re in a bar with an old friend you haven’t seen for a while. You can read the rest of it here.

Edith: Wow, my friends. Even after all the words (of fiction) I’ve written, all the stories I’ve told, I wasn’t quite sure what voice was. I don’t think about it and didn’t know how I could contribute to this post. I only know that I let my protagonist guide my writing. The voice in my Country Store Mysteries, for example, is far different than when 1880s midwife Rose Carroll is telling the story. And some of my short stories emerge in a darker voice. I’ve written two novels in more than one point of view. One didn’t sell (I think I hadn’t quite figured it out yet) and the other is out on submission.

Liz: I love this conversation too. While I also could never pinpoint a textbook definition, for me it was more of a feeling as I was writing. Was I being authentic? Did the voice sound more real in first or third person? How can I make sure that my character is doing the talking and not me? When none of those questions were coming up as I was writing, I felt more confident that the voice was right. I also love thinking about how different POVs help me tell the story. I’m also experimenting with a novel written in multiple POVs and it’s been a fascinating process.

Jessie: I love reading all of your thoughts on voice! For me, I think it is less learned perhaps than unlearned. When writers are starting out they tend to look outside of themselves for guidance and that can lead to unconsciously imitating their mentors and role models. A writer’s unique lens on the world and her particular way of expressing it are what I think voice is made of and developing a confidence that those are valuable enough to share authentically can take some time.

Readers, what sorts of storytelling voices are you attracted to?

Guest- Nancy Herriman and a Giveaway!

Jessie: In New Hampshire where the crocuses are blooming!

I am so delighted to welcome Nancy Herriman to the blog today! We’ve known each other for a few years and are both members of The Sleuths in Time. Nancy writes historical mysteries that are intriguing and immersive. Leave a comment for a chance to win one of her Old San Francisco Mysteries. Take it away, Nancy!

First off, thanks to the Wickeds for having me back on their blog. This time, to celebrate the release of Book 6 in my A Mystery of Old San Francisco series, No Justice for the Deceived!

The field of medicine fascinates me, and I regularly feature medical people in my books. So, unsurprisingly, when it came time to develop the idea for a mystery series set in 1860s San Francisco, I gravitated toward my sleuth being a nurse. A woman whose occupation would regularly expose her to death and who might also recognize the signs of when a passing is not so natural. 

In 1867, when my A Mystery of Old San Francisco series opens, numerous women worked in the field. They primarily were midwives and nurses, but a handful operated as self-styled physicians utilizing spiritual or water ‘cures.’ Even for those women offering traditional care, the training would have been sparse, the medical professions still ruled by men resisting the attempts of females to invade their territory. 

Furthermore, nursing as an occupation was considered unsuitable for gently-raised women. Then again, most occupations were considered unsuitable for gently-raised women! Even through much of the American Civil War, nursing duties consisted primarily of women providing ‘female companionship.’ Viewed as fragile and possessing an inferior intellect, female nurses were generally restricted to simple chores–preparing and serving meals, bathing feverish foreheads, reading to the patients or writing letters for them. Any tasks resembling what we consider today to be the jobs of nurses were mostly left to male orderlies and doctors.

Change was underway, though. In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in America to obtain a degree in medicine. Then, in 1850, the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania opened. Later, in 1861, the school’s role expanded to include the training of nurses, and it is at this school that my fictional sleuth, Celia Davies, receives her education.

Celia will put that education to good use when she opens a free clinic in San Francisco treating women of limited means. But when one of her patients dies suspiciously, Celia gets caught up in the world of crime detection. Trained to carefully observe and draw conclusions, she finds, much to her surprise, that that she is skilled at it. Much to the chagrin of one of the city’s police detectives, Nick Greaves. Soon they are collaborating on other cases, including the sudden death of a servant at a fancy masquerade ball being held in one of the finest parts of San Francisco.

I’m curious — what do you think of the use of nurses as sleuths? Do you enjoy mystery series that feature nurses or other medical professionals as sleuths? If not, why not?

A bit about No Justice for the Deceived:

At an opulent masquerade ball no one is who they ’ re pretending to be, but when the affair ends in death, Celia and Nick will have to unmask a killer . . .

Word of an upcoming engagement that will join two prominent families has tongues wagging among San Francisco society, but Celia worries the bride-to-be may be making a serious mistake. Her intended, a controlling man and a known womanizer, has recently been linked to a violent attack on a former mistress. When a hapless maid is poisoned at the party where the engagement was to be announced, Celia discovers that the fiancé was the intended victim.

Detective Nick Greaves is called to the scene to investigate the grim death and finds once again that Celia has already unearthed valuable clues. Working together to track down the would-be murderer, they soon determine that any number of people had reason to do away with the man. And when another young woman is found dead, Celia realizes that cornering the killer may expose a cruel truth at the heart of a wealthy family’s deceptions.

Bio:

Nancy Herriman has fronted a cover band, acted on stage, and been employed in the tech industry as an engineer. Writing is her current and most long-lasting passion. Her work has won the Daphne du Maurier award, and Publishers Weekly says her ‘A Mystery of Old San Francisco’ series “…brings 1867 San Francisco to vivid life.” When not writing, she enjoys singing, gabbing about writing, and eating dark chocolate. Find more at www.nancyherriman.com.

Giveaway — a signed copy of any one of Books 1 through 5 in her Mystery of Old San Francisco series

Hidden Beneath ARCs Are Here and a #giveaway

by Barb, first post from Maine in 2023

Advance Reader Copies of Hidden Beneath, the eleventh novel in the Maine Clambake Mystery series are here!

To celebrate, I’m giving away one copy each, signed by me, to 10 lucky winners. US only, unfortunately. Enter by April 17, by signing up on the form here. (And not by commenting below, which is how we usually do things here at Wicked Authors World Headquarters.)

Here’s the description of Hidden Beneath.

Serving up mouthwatering shellfish, the Snowden Family Clambake has become a beloved institution in Busman’s Harbor, Maine. But when new clues rise to the surface five years after the disappearance of Julia Snowden’ s mother’s friend, the family business shifts to sleuthing . . .

Julia and her mother, Jacqueline, have come to the exclusive summer colony of Chipmunk Island to attend a memorial service for Jacqueline’s old friend Ginny, who’s been officially declared dead half a decade after she went out for her daily swim in the harbor and was never seen again. But something seems fishy at the service—especially with the ladies of the Wednesday Club. As Julia and Jacqueline begin looking into Ginny’s cold case, a present-day murder stirs the pot, and mother and daughter must dive into the deep end to get to the bottom of both mysteries . . .

Where is Chipmunk Island?

There is a real Squirrel Island in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. When I created my fictional Busman’s Harbor, I thought it would be funny to put a Chipmunk Island in the harbor there. Chipmunk Island appears in several of the earlier books in the series, mostly as the Snowden Family Clambake tour boat, the Jacquie II, takes customers out to Morrow Island and back. In other words, in passing.

Up until this book, I had only the vaguest notion of who lived on the island, and aside from the shape that contributes its name, knew next to nothing about the physical island either. But I wondered about it each time the Jacquie II passed by. The story in Hidden Beneath fills those gaps.

I want to state, categorically, that I have never been to the real Squirrel Island and don’t know anyone who lives there. (Well, that’s not true. I do know one woman who lives there, but I always meet her in Key West.) I’m sure everyone on Squirrel Island is lovely. I made up all the people and places in Hidden Beneath out of whole cloth. Still, I feel like I owe the people of Squirrel Island an apology. Sorry about all the murders. And the other stuff. I didn’t mean anything by it.

I’m excited for you all to have the opportunity to read Hidden Beneath. If you’re not feeling lucky, you can pre-order it from any of these fine retailers: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Chapters/Indigo, Your Local Indie Bookstore.

In the meantime, don’t forget to enter the giveaway! And good luck.