M.L. Rowland's Blog, page 11
October 24, 2014
October 23, 2014
How Wolves Change Rivers
One of the most awesome, short videos I’ve ever seen.
Please watch.
Marvel.
And share.
Then save the wolves!
October 20, 2014
Calling All Readers!
Send me a photo of yourself
(and/or your spouse, significant other, friends,
yoga group, book club, chorale, etc.)
reading either one of my books,
Zero-Degree Murder
or
Murder Off the Beaten Path,
and I will post it on my website
in the Readers Gallery.
Fame and fortune not guaranteed.
Have fun with it!
Be creative!
If you’re from a country other than the U.S., put your nation’s flag in the photo.
Let’s see how many different countries we can get!
My e-mail address: mlrowland@ymail.com.
Or you can access the e-mail on my website: http://www.mlrowland.com
Rules:
Each person depicted must be reading his/her own copy of either book.
Attach them to the e-mail in jpg format.
If you send me a photo and don’t see it up on my website within a week,
please try again. Possibly your e-mail went into my spam box.
Thanks!!
October 13, 2014
Attention Book Clubs…
Please check out my website for discussion questions for “Zero-Degree Murder” and “Murder Off the Beaten Path” specifically designed for book clubs.
If I’ve missed questions for either book you would like to see included in the list, please let me know via this site or my website: http://www.mlrowland.com.
Thank you!
and
Happy reading!
October 7, 2014
“MURDER OFF THE BEATEN PATH” released today!
“Murder Off the Beaten Path,” the second book in the Search and Rescue mystery series featuring Gracie Kinkaid, written by M.L. Rowland, is now available at:
And don’t forget
your local brick and mortar bookstores
AND
libraries!
If they don’t have either
“Murder Off the Beaten Path”
or the first book in the series,
“Zero-Degree Murder,”
ask them to order them for you!!
October 6, 2014
Coming to a Radio Station or Bookstore Near You!
Following is the current list of dates and radio stations or bookstores for which I have interviews/book events set up for “Murder Off the Beaten Path,” releasing tomorrow, Tuesday, October 7.
More will be added when they’re scheduled.
(Apologies for the crooked columns–apparently WordPress doesn’t do columns!)
Thanks for listening/attending (if you can)!!
Murder Off the Beaten Path
Mon, Oct. 6 12:30 PM KGAL Lebanon, OR
Tues, Oct. 7 7:30 AM KCMN Colorado Springs
Tues, Oct. 7 8:10 AM KOGA Oglalla, NB
Tues, Oct. 7 9:05 AM WOCA Orlando
Wed, Oct. 8 7:00 AM WMST Lexington,KY
Wed, Oct. 8 10:00 AM KDUN Reedsport, OR
Wed, Oct. 8 10:35 AM KLZ Denver
Thurs, Oct. 9 7:30 AM Syndicated Andover, MA
Thurs, Oct. 9 8:30 AM KJFF St. Louis
Fri, Oct. 10 8:30 AM WILY St. Louis
Fri, Oct. 10 1:00 PM KHEN Salida
Mon, Oct. 13 7:45 AM KTLF Little Falls, MN
Tues, Oct. 14 6:00 PM The Book Haven/Salida
Sat, Oct. 18 3:00 PM Barnes and Noble/Pueblo
Mon, Oct. 20 11:30 AM WCAP Boston
Wed, Oct. 22 6:35 AM WXGM Gloucester, VA
Mon, Oct. 22 8:30 AM Syndicated A Touch of Grey
October 3, 2014
There’s Something In the Autumn
A Vagabond Song
There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood—
Touch of manner, hint of mood;
And my heart is like a rhyme,
With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.
The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
Of bugles going by.
And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.
There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir;
We must rise and follow her,
When from every hill of flame
She calls and calls each vagabond by name.
— Bliss Carman
There’s Something About the Autumn
A Vagabond Song
There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood—
Touch of manner, hint of mood;
And my heart is like a rhyme,
With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.
The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
Of bugles going by.
And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.
There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir;
We must rise and follow her,
When from every hill of flame
She calls and calls each vagabond by name.
— Bliss Carman
“Murder Off the Beaten Path” Excerpt
Below is an excerpt from my book, “Murder Off the Beaten Path,” published by Penguin Random House under their Berkley Prime Crime label, and releasing Tuesday, October 7, 2014.
Lenny’s yell split the darkness. He fell backward onto the slope, yanking Gracie forward off her feet. She landed on the litter with her shoulder in the basket. Ribs knocked against the raised metal railing. Pain snatched the breath from her lungs.
The litter pendulumed below Lenny, dragging Gracie along with it. She dug her knees and feet into the rocky soil. “Stop!” she bellowed into the radio.
A long whistle blast sounded faintly from above.
The litter stopped moving. A scrabble of pebbles rolled down the hill. No sound, but two rescuers breathing heavily.
“Litter, sitrep,” Ralph said over the radio.
Grunting against the pain, Gracie pushed herself up off the litter and crouched on the steep hillside, propping herself in place by planting a hiking boot against the side of a boulder. “What the hell, Lenny?”
His breath coming in quick huffs, Lenny pointed down the hill and off to the left. “There.”
“Litter, sitrep,” came Ralph’s voice again, more sharply.
“Stand by one,” Gracie said, in as normal a voice as she could muster. She slid around so she was facing downhill and swept the hillside below with the light of her headlamp, straining to see what Lenny had seen.
Then she saw it . . .
A few feet below them on the slope lay a human arm.
“Murder Off the Beaten Path” releases Tuesday, October 7, 2014.
Both “Murder Off the Beaten Path,” and the first book in the series, “Zero-Degree Murder” are available at http://www.amazon.com; http://www.barnesandnoble.com, and at your local brick and mortar bookstores–if they don’t carry it, they can order it for you.
