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August 6, 2024
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Booked on Murder (A Haunted Library Mystery) by Allison Brook
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Librarian Carrie Singleton must catch a killer before she can say “I do” in the 8th delightful installment in Agatha Award-nominee Allison Brook’s Haunted Library mystery series.
Carrie Singleton is ready to kiss the single life goodbye. Her wedding to Dylan Avery is just a few weeks away, and a happy ending is about to be hers. But when a body is found on the lawn of their wedding venue, happily-ever-after is looking deadlier than ever.
The victim turns out to be Billy Carpenter, a young man recently released from prison after serving time for a bank robbery. The stolen money he’d buried is gone and Carrie and the police suspect Billy’s two alleged co-conspirators, his friends Luke Rizzo and Tino Valdez. But then Luke is murdered and Tino is nowhere to be found.
With no leads and only a week to go before her big day, Carrie is on the hunt for clues. She hopes to wrap up this investigation with a neat bow before she and Dylan tie the knot. Carrie has something old, something new, and something borrowed ready for her walk down the aisle. Now she needs to find the killer without becoming the ‘something blue.’
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ThoughI’ve never met a ghost, I’ve read enough about ghost sightings and hauntings tobelieve they exist. Experts in the field say some spirits remain earthboundbecause they’ve experienced a brutal or sudden death and don’t realize they’redead. Others remain here because they have unfinished business or issues theyneed to resolve before passing on. Ghosts, whether you believe in them or not, havea permanent place in our literary lore. Readers find their manifestationsunnerving, thrilling and intriguing. I include ghosts in some of my books.
As youwould expect from the title, there are a few ghosts in my Haunted Libraryseries. Evelyn Havers,a ghostly figure in her sixties, used to be an aide inthe Clover Ridge Library where my sleuth Carrie Singleton works. In fact, it isEvelyn who urges Carrie to consider accepting the position of head of programsand events instead of leaving town as planned.After getting over her shock thata ghost has spoken to her, Carrie accepts the job offer. Carrie and her littlecousin, it turns out, are the only people who can see and talk to Evelyn.
Evelynhelps Carrie ease in to her new position, and soon she is helping Carrie solvethe murder of a retired police lieutenant who has come to talk about a coldcase he now believes he's solved and is poisoned in front of his audience.Evelyn knows the people of Clover Ridge and many of their secrets. She providesCarrie with vital information, and together they analyze clues. However, whenEvelyn fears that her niece, the unpleasant reference librarian who resentsCarrie, might be the murderer, she withholds valuable information, at least temporarily.
Carrieand Evelyn continue to solve murders. Carrie even uncovers the real facts ofEvelyn's death in the library parking lot one cold and icy night.Theirrelationship deepens, and as the day of Carrie and Dylan's wedding approaches, Evelyntells Carrie she is the daughter her husband and she never had.
Thelibrary acquires the adjoining building for a much needed expansion. Thebuilding is derelict and requires a complete renovation. A body wrapped in ablanket is discovered in the basement. When a worker breaks through the joiningwall, the dead man's ghost enters the library. Unlike Evelyn, this ghost can beseen in a ghostly form. Agitated and disoriented, he causes a stir in thelibrary, fluttering pages and knocking books from shelves. Carrie and Evelyn quicklywhisk him to the library attic that's rarely used so he won't disturb thepatrons. The ghost turns out to be Dylan's uncle Alec. Carrie and Evelyn identifyAlec's murderer and Evelyn helps him move on. Evelyn remains in Clover Ridge,continuingto oversee the well being of the town and its residents.
WhenCarrie and Dylan are looking to buy a home, Carrie's great aunt and unclesuggest they look at a house quite close to the Singleton Farm where Carrieused to visit when she and her brother were young. Though the house isbeautiful and in good condition, it has been on the market for three years.Carrie and Dylan soon find out why. Two little ghost girls occupy the house and havebeen frightening prospective buyers. But they don't scare Carrie, or even Dylanwho knows of Evelyn's existence and has spoken to his uncle in his ghostly form.Carrie and Dylan decide to buy the house, and the little girls can't wait forthem to move in. Carrie has told them she'll get Evelyn to help them move on.
Do youknow of other series that have characters that are ghosts?
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A former Spanish teacher, Marilyn Levinson writes mysteries, romantic suspense, and novels for kids. Her books have received many accolades. As Allison Brook, she writes the Haunted Library series. Death Overdue, the first in the series, was an Agatha nominee for Best Contemporary Novel in 2018. Other mysteries include the Golden Age of Mystery Book Club series, the Twin Lakes series, and Giving Up the Ghost. Her romantic suspense, Come Home to Death, was released on April 30, 2024, and her romantic suspense, Dangerous Relations, will be republished in 2025.
Marilyn's juvenile novel, Rufus and Magic Run Amok, was an International Reading Association-Children's Book Council Children's Choice and recently appeared in a new edition. And Don't Bring Jeremy was a nominee for six state awards. Her YA horror, The Devil's Pawn, came out in a new edition in January 2024.
Marilyn lives on Long Island, where many of her books take place. She loves traveling, reading, doing crossword puzzles and Sudoku, chatting on FaceTime with her grandkids, and playing with her kittens, Romeo and Juliet.
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August 1, 2024
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~ FRIDAY FICTION CHILDREN'S BOOK FEATURE ~ -- GUESS WHO IS IN GOD'S FAMILY -- AUTHOR KAREN FERGUSON
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Title: Guess Who is in God's Family
Series: Questions for Kids
Author: Karen Ferguson
Publisher: Ambassador International
Release Date: June 4, 2024
Genre: Children's Picture Book
When Lucy comes across some old family pictures, she has a lot of questions for Papa Joe. Who are these people? Why doesn’t she look like them? As Papa Joe tells Lucy about her family, he shares with her the uniqueness that God created in each of us from the very beginning, all the way back to our first ancestors, Adam and Eve. What follows is a wild adventure through the Bible, where Lucy and her papa discover God’s love and faithfulness for all people throughout all of history. In this second book in the Questions for Kids series, discover how much God loves diversity and how God created your family in the most beautiful and perfect way.
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Lucy camerunning into the kitchen. “Papa is this you?” she asked, pointing to a picturein a large book filled with faded photos.
“Why, yes,that’s me when I was your age!”
“Who isthat next to you?”
“That wasmy grandfather, Papa Bill. He was a wonderful man.”
“Have Iever met him?”
“Oh no, heis your great-great-grandfather, and he went to Heaven long before you wereborn.”
Lucy lookedat his picture and wondered how many other people in her family she hadn’t met,as the book was filled with pictures of people she didn’t recognize. “Are thesepeople my family, too?” Lucy asked, turning pages and pointing to one photoafter another.
“They sureare.”
“They lookso different from me,” she said, tugging at a strand of her fiery red hair.Then again, Lucy looked a lot different than Papa Joe. Her light skin, greeneyes, and freckled nose were completely different from Papa’s olive-coloredskin and dark hair and eyes.
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July 26, 2024
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Join me to stitch up a batch of festive Christmas holiday jar aprons,decorated jar lids, and gift tags for your friends, neighbors, party guests,teachers, and anyone else to whom you want to say 'Merry Christmas' or 'thankyou'!
The book also includes a list of resources for recipes for treats andother dry mixes you can make to fill up your jars before gifting them someonespecial!
To make the patterns user-friendly for seamstresses around the world, each pattern includes the measurements in Imperial and Metric. The book also includes completematerials lists and detailed cutting/sewing/crafting instructions for all threeprojects.
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July 18, 2024
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As I waspreparing to write this article, I realized just how much my readingpreferences as a child have informed my reading habits throughout my life.Historical fiction is still my go-to genre.
My favoriteauthors as a middle-grade reader were Louisa May Alcott and Laura IngallsWilder. Besides the fact that their stories were historical fiction, both ofthese women wove their personal family histories into their work. When I was ateen I read 'Christy' written by Catherine Marshall; it remains my favorite historicalnovel to this day. This author was inspired by her family's history to write apoignant story of a young teacher serving an Appalachian community by educatingtheir children.In two of myown original Christian historical romance works, 'Handmade Hearts' and'Christmas in Bonita Creek,' I wove a thread of faith, love, and militaryservice based upon my extended family's journeys through life.
'HandmadeHearts' was inspired by my aunt and uncle's love story which began in NewOrleans during World War II. My uncle was a wounded Marine who met my aunt bychance at a church social one evening after he returned from Guadalcanal. Inthis short story the main character tells his new friend (my aunt) about theservice records of his two brothers.
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In'Christmas in Bonita Creek,' I wove different aspects of my uncle's World WarII and Korean War military experience into the lead male character and onesupporting male character.
When we worked together on his narrative for theVeterans History Project at the Library of Congress in the early 2000s, myuncle shared many deeply emotional and painful events from his combat years inthe South Pacific and Korea. He emphasized with great feeling how much hemissed being at home for Christmas (which happened four times in his longcareer in the military). As he related his experiences, I gained valuableinsight into the toll that combat takes on our soldiers. These insightsprompted me to approach the feelings and actions of my characters in adifferent light.
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My shortstory written for middle-grade readers, 'Penny Says Goodnight,' was published in my 'Banjo & More Pet Stories for Children' story collection and was inspired bya true story shared with me by two of my aunts about the family's pet Cocker Spaniel in New Orleans in the early to mid-1940s. They told me that theirbeloved pet, Penny, wandered through the house each night to make sure everyone wastucked into their own bed before she would snuggle down in her basket in thekitchen for the night.
Personallyknowing my relatives my entire life and hearing the excitement in their voices as they told metheir stories when I was a child and an adult gave me a deeper connection tothe characters I later created for my fiction. I've been told by readers thatmy heartfelt ties to these beloved relatives shines through in my writing.
Thank you for letting me share some treasured family memories with you! I have a special treat for all of you! My dear friend, Carrie Schmidt, is here to share her thoughts about this subject with you! Enjoy her guest post below.
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I reachedout to author, blogger, influencer, and co-founder of JustRead Publicity Tours,Carrie Schmidt, to ask her to share her perspective on authors weaving truefamily history into their fiction writing:
"Ithink readers love it when they know an historical fiction author has (looselyor otherwise) written a book based on their own family history. Pepper Basham,Laura Frantz, Amanda Wen, Patricia Lee, Marguerite Martin Gray, and CarrieFancett Pagels, among others, have written novels like this. For Basham andFrantz in particular, nearly every historical story each writes has a bit ofthe author’s family history in it, but it’s most prominent in Basham’s 'Laurel’sDream' and 'The Heart of the Mountains' and Frantz’s 'TheRose and the Thistle.' Wen’s 'Sedgwick County Chronicles' – a series ofsplit-time novels – is inspired by the author’s ancestry, as is Patricia Lee’s 'TheDescendant’s Daughter,' respectively. Marguerite Martin Gray tells her familystory in her 'Revolutionary Faith' series, and Carrie Fancett Pagels expands onher own ancestors from a similar era in 'Saving the Marquise’s Granddaughter.'For readers, this personal connection to an author’s story gives us a feelingof community and camaraderie that in turn leads us to continued investment inthat author’s career."
CarrieSchmidt isan avid reader, book reviewer, story addict, KissingBooks fan, book boyfriendcollector, and cool aunt. She also loves Jesus and THE Story a whole lot.Carrie started the popular blog ReadingIsMySuperPower.org in 2015 and sincethen has had the honor of co-founding the Christian Fiction Readers’ Retreatand JustRead Publicity Tours. In addition to these endeavors, she is a regularcontributor to Seekerville and has written for magazines such as RT BookReviews and Christian Market. Carrie now lives in Georgia with her husband,though her roots range from East Tennessee to Central Kentucky and northernIllinois. You can connect with Carrie on ReadingIsMySuperPower.org, Facebook@meezcarriereads or @meezcarriewrites, and everywhere else social at@meezcarrie
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💠💠Please feel free to leave a comment on this post using this prompt:
Doesknowing that an author has woven her or his family's history into a novelinspire you to read it?
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June 26, 2024
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
At the behest of her ailing mother,former FBI special agent turned rare-book collector Ivy Elliott arrives inAlaska to secure an unpublished Jack London manuscript kept secreted away fordecades. But when she arrives, she learns the manuscript is gone--taken by thegranddaughter of the woman who possessed it. Ivy sets off in pursuit, not justto save the manuscript but to save the vulnerable girl, who was previouslytrafficked and has no idea what she's getting herself into.
Joining forces with Alaska State Trooper Nolan Long, Ivy must battle ablizzard, sabotage, and the worst of an Alaskan winter as the search goes on.But every answer they find only raises more questions--and the danger to theirlives and to the missing girl may only be the tip of the iceberg.
Don't miss this breathtaking race for truth set amid the glorious--anddeadly--Glacier Bay from USA Today bestselling author Elizabeth Goddard.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Elizabeth Goddard is the USA Todaybestselling and award-winning author of more than 60 novels, including ColdLight of Day and Shadows at Dusk, as well as the Rocky Mountain Courage andUncommon Justice series. Her books have sold nearly 1.5 million copies. She isa Carol Award and Reader's Choice Award winner and a Daphne du Maurier Awardand HOLT Medallion finalist. When she's not writing, she loves spending timewith her family, traveling to find inspiration for her next book, and servingwith her husband in ministry. Learn more at ElizabethGoddard.com.
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MY REVIEW:
A complex tale filled with mystery andsuspense in Alaska's wilderness involving a twist from the past. . .
In this final installment of theauthor's 'Missing in Alaska' series,former FBI agent Ivy Elliott has returned to Alaska at the request of hermother. Her mother wants her find a missing Jack London manuscript from theearly 20th-century. Although Ivy is reluctant to return to the cold ruggedlandscape of Alaska, readers quickly learn that someone is pressuring her tofind the manuscript. Ivy does not want to let her mother down for severalreasons.
Nolan Long is a well-respected,experienced Alaska State Trooper, who is assigned to the missing person caseIvy inadvertently falls into when she arrives in Southeast Alaska. These twocharacters are definitely not strangers, and they discover that the spark they eachfelt when they originally met on another case has not died off.
This story is filled with amazing actionscenes, deep conversations between the two lead characters, dead ends, twistsand turns, deceit, betrayal—everything fans of this genre want to read. As for romance—thereis a tender and touching romance that blossoms as the story progresses. Familyrelationships play a large part in the arc of this story.
The author's descriptive writing of thesetting and action scenes is excellent! The faith thread is subtle, but everpresent. This book is completely clean in language and content.
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I received a copy of this book from the publisherthrough their Revell Reads Blogger Program. All of my thoughts and opinionsshared here are solely my own.
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June 24, 2024
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~ TUESDAY CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK FEATURE ~ -- 'I DREAM A DREAM FOR YOU' -- WRITTEN BY BOB HOSTETLERILLUSTRATED BY BENEDETTA CAPRIOTTI ⭐🌛🌕🌜 ⭐🌛🌕🌜 ⭐🌛🌕🌜⭐
Welcome to the Blog Tour for I Dream a Dream for You by Bob Hostetler (illustrated by Benedetta Capriotti) hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!
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Title: I Dream a Dream for You
Author: Bob Hostetler
Illustrator: Benedetta Capriotti
Publisher: Kregel Children's Books
Release Date: June 18, 2024
Genre: Picture Book
A charming read-aloud bedtime book for toddlers
With its sweet bedtime rhymes, I Dream a Dream for You resembles the classic title The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton. A family of red pandas make their home in the forest. When it's time for bed, Mom and Dad tuck in their three kiddos, and as they all drift to sleep, dreams come to life through the vibrant pictures and story. Parents or grandparents will enjoy reading this sweet bedtime rhyme, filled with dreams and aspirations for their little ones. With amazing, colorful illustrations, this read-to-me story richly shows the love of a faith-filled family with creative, interesting scenes that kids will love to see over and over--and those who read it to them will experience the blessing of God's love, which is meant to be shown and shared with families.
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🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟A colorful, meaningful bedtime story forchildren to share with their families and caregivers time and time again . . .
Told by Mother Red Panda, this sweet boardbook about prayers for her little ones truly touched my heart. Her wishes forher children include a wide array of personality traits and life experiencesincluding having fun, being polite and kind, standing up for the right thing,working hard, and loving the Lord.
Rhyme, rhythm, and repetition are keybuilding blocks for early literacy in youngsters, and this author haseffectively provided a narrative which reinforces these three elements. He alsointroduces the concept of prayer in a way that young children will understandand enjoy.
The illustrator has created amazingillustrations filled with vibrant colors, fun background details, andexpressive faces on the wide variety of characters. I envision families andcaregivers playing 'I Spy' with young readers as they move through the engagingtext.
I received a copy of this book from thepublisher through JustRead Publicity Tours. All of my thoughts and opinionsshared here are solely my own.
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About the Author
Bob Hostetler is an award-winning author, literary agent, and international speaker. His first children's book, Don't Close Your Eyes, and its subsequent success, was a dream come true for him. His fifty other books include the award-winning Don't Check Your Brains at the Door (co-authored with Josh McDowell) and The Bard and the Bible: A Shakespeare Devotional. He has won two Gold Medallion Awards, four Ohio Associated Press awards, and a Selah "Book of the Year" honor. He and his wife make their home in Nevada.
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About the Illustrator
Benedetta Capriotti was born in Italy, in a seaside town of the central region Marche. Since she was a child, she has had a great passion for drawing and art. In high school she would draw on Greek and Latin books, so she chose to attend a professional School of Fashion and Technical Drawing. Afterward she joined the Illustration class at the International School of Comics in Rome. In addition to drawing, she likes reading, traveling, and animals, and would like to live in the English countryside.
Connect with Benedetta on Instagram.
Tour Giveaway(1) winner will win a print copy of I Dream a Dream for You and book-related goodies!
Full tour schedule linked below. The giveaway begins at midnight June 25, 2024 and will last through 11:59 PM EST on July 2, 2024. Winners will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. US/CAN only. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.
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June 18, 2024
~ WEDNESDAY MYSTERY FEATURE AMISH BOOK CELLAR ~
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Welcome to the Blog Tour for The Amish Book Cellar by Tracy Fredrychowski hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!
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Title: The Amish Book Cellar
Series: Willow Springs Amish Mystery Romance #1
Author: Tracy Fredrychowski
Publisher: The Tracer Group, LLC
Release Date: June 4, 2024
Genre: Christian Fiction Amish Cozy Mystery
It will take everything she has to face her past. Can this wayward woman find her way back into the hearts of her Amish Community?
When a mistake forces Lydia Troyer to leave her Amish roots in exchange for a new life as an Englischer, she finds herself running from more than her past as Wally Troyer's rebellious daughter.
Upon her father's untimely death, she is called home to take over The Book Cellar, Willow Springs's favorite Amish bookstore. A series of strange happenings and whispers among her people lead her to suspect there are more than books hidden in the cellar. Will she chance getting her heart broken again if she leans on a longtime friend and carpenter, Aaron Shetler, to help her discover the truth?
Widower Aaron Shetler has too much at stake to allow Lydia Troyer back into his life. Will it take his young daughter, Mattie Rose, to convince him what he yearns for the most is the one thing he's fighting against the hardest?
Together with their Labrador Yankee, Lydia, and Aaron help bring to light a century of mysteries waiting to be unearthed about some of Willow Springs's most upstanding citizens.
Can this woman find the courage to stand up for what is right and find her place back among her people?
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The familiar scentof new books triggered a cascade of memories. Yankee, her father’s loyalcharcoal lab, used to greet her at the door with enthusiasm. She half-expectedto see him running to her but nothing but silence greeted her. A wave ofloneliness washed over her, and she yearned for the comforting touch of the dogand the gentle thud of his tail against the floor and the warmth of hiscompanionship. She couldn’t help but wonder what may have happened to the olddog.
As she walked around to the back of thecounter, she tripped over a pile of books and papers scattered on the floor.She stopped to gather up the mess when a note in her father’s handwritingcaught her attention. She ran her finger over his perfect penmanship, realizinghim being gone was still too enormous to grasp.
It was like she was swimming through amuck of guilt and grief, trying to keep from drowning. If only she had stayedand faced her mistakes. Instead, she ran and hid her shame from her father andthe boy she truly loved.
The crack finally opened, and she fell back,hid her face in her hands, and let her heart shatter. Thirty minutes later, herbody ached from the aftershock of her emotional outburst. She had not beenprepared for how hard it was to step back into a life she could no longer sharewith her father.
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In northwestern Pennsylvania, Tracy grew up steeping in the virtues of country living. A pivotal moment in her life was the tragic murder of a young Amish woman in her community. This event profoundly influenced her, compelling her to dedicate her writing to the peaceful lives of the Amish people. Tracy aims to inspire her readers through her stories to embrace a life centered around faith, family, and community.
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June 13, 2024
~ FRIDAY MYSTERY FEATURE SORRY, KNOT SORRY ~
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Sorry, Knot Sorry (An Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery) by Lois Winston
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ABOUT 'SORRY, NOT SORRY':
Sorry, Knot Sorry (An Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery)
Cozy Mystery13th in SeriesSetting - New Jersey & New York City
Independently Published (June 4, 2024)
Print length : 300 pagesDigital ASIN : B0CXTY8D76
Magazine crafts editor Anastasia Pollack may finally be able to pay off the remaining debt she found herself saddled with when her duplicitous first husband dropped dead in a Las Vegas casino. But as Anastasia has discovered, nothing in her life is ever straightforward. Strings are always attached. Thanks to the success of an unauthorized true crime podcast, a television production company wants to option her life—warts and all—as a reluctant amateur sleuth.
Is such exposure worth a clean financial slate? Anastasia isn’t sure, but at the same time, rumors are flying about layoffs at the office. Whether she wants national exposure or not, Anastasia may be forced to sign on the dotted line to keep from standing in the unemployment line. But the dead bodies keep coming, and they’re not in the script.
Craft tips included.
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🎂🎈🎉 ~ How to Craft a CraftyBirthday Party ~ 🎉 🎈 🎂
By Lois Winston
I write theAnastasia Pollack Crafting Mysteries, a humorous amateur sleuth series where myprotagonist is the crafts editor at a women’s magazine. She’s also drowning in debtand dealing with a loan shark demanding fifty thousand dollars, thanks to herdeceased husband and his love affair with Lady Luck – an affair Anastasia knewnothing about until after he dropped dead in a Las Vegas casino. She thought hewas at a sales meeting in Harrisburg, PA.
That’s theopening of Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun, the first book in the series. Sinceit debuted in 2011, the series has grown to thirteen books and three novellas. Sorry, Knot Sorry, is the latest release. Each book features a differentcraft.
Even thoughAnastasia’s financial situation is more dire than most, most of us deal withbudgets. If you have young children, you know how expensive it is to throw abirthday party these days. Most of us aren’t rolling in the kind of dough ittakes to rent out the local cineplex or skating arena. We’re more the Play-dohand pizza dough types.
So what do youdo when it’s time to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of your very ownchip off the old block? Some parents tell their kids they can only invite asmall number of friends to a birthday party – five kids for the fifth birthday,six for the sixth, seven for the seventh, etc. Try explaining to a six-year-old thathe wasn’t invited to his friend’s birthday party because he didn’t make thecut.
Instead oflimiting the number of kids and causing all sorts of hurt feelings, as well asyears of therapy (don’t we parents always get blamed for everything?), plan aparty that doesn’t cost the equivalent of your next mortgage payment. Invite allyour child’s friends to a crafting party.
Forget the partyfavors. Instead, buy inexpensive T-shirts at your local crafts or big box store.Washthem ahead of time to remove the fabric sizing, but skip the fabric softener.
Depending onthe age of the kids, buy supplies for either sponge painting, rubber stamping,or fabric painting. Fabric markers or crayons work best for very young children. Supplybuttons, pompoms, or “jewels” for embellishment. Make sure the paints, inks, andglue are made specifically for working with fabric. Many white glues aren’twaterproof. Read the labels.
You’ll alsoneed a sheet of cardboard for each shirt (cut up those shipping or cereal boxesyou normally recycle) and either plastic grocery bags or plastic wrap to coverthe cardboard. Slip the cardboard into the shirt to keep the paint frombleeding through and the front from sticking to the back.
Working outsideat a picnic table is ideal, but if the weather isn’t cooperating, make sure youcover your floor with a plastic drop cloth and use one on the table.
Now, let thekids have fun. They’ll have a blast creating their own shirts and take home aparty favor that won’t break or be consumed within five minutes of leaving.
Afterwards, putyour feet up and relax with a glass of wine and Sorry, Knot Sorry, the newestAnastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery. 😀
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ABOUT AUTHOR LOIS WINSTON:
USA Today and Amazon bestselling author Lois Winston began her award-winning writing career in 2006 with Talk Gertie to Me, a humorous novel about a small-town girl in Manhattan and the mother bent on bringing her home. That was followed by the romantic suspense Love, Lies and a Double Shot of Deception. Lois wrote her first mystery thanks to a conversation between her agent and an editor looking for a crafting-themed cozy series. Thus, was born the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mysteries, which Kirkus Reviews dubbed, “North Jersey’s more mature answer to Stephanie Plum.” The series now includes thirteen novels and three novellas. To date Lois has published twenty-two novels, five novellas, several short stories, one children’s chapter book, and one nonfiction book on writing, inspired by the twelve years she worked as an associate at a literary agency. Learn more about Lois and her books at http://www.loiswinston.com.
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~ RENDEVOUS 2024 BOOK EVENT ~
Welcome to the Blog Tour for JustRead Rendezvous 2024, hosted, sponsored, and organized by JustRead Publicity Tours!
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JustRead Rendezvous
November 15, 2024
Join fellow readers and authors at the JustRead Rendezvous to celebrate Christian fiction and sweet reads. This event, modeled after the Christian Fiction Readers Retreat, aims to sweeten reading and storytelling experiences with fellowship and encouragement. Activities will include corporate worship, speaker sessions, author panels, small group discussions, games, giveaways, a pop-up book shop, and author signings.
Baker Publishing Group fiction imprints (Bethany House and Revell), Enclave Publishing, and Kregel Publications have joined JustRead Publicity Tours as event sponsors.
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Participating Authors
first row: Amanda Barratt, Amanda Cox, Amanda Dykes, Angela Ruth Strong, Becky Wade, Elizabeth Goddard, Elizabeth Musser, Emily Conrad, Gabrielle Meyer. second row: Janilise Lloyd, Kate Breslin, Katie Powner, Kimberley Woodhouse, Kristi Ann Hunter, Laura Frantz, Linda MacKillop, Lisa Phillips, Lynn Austin. third row: Mesu Andrews, Nancy Mehl, Nicole Deese, Robin W. Pearson, Ronie Kendig, Sara Brunsvold, Sara Davison, Sara Ella, Sara Watterson
Keynote speakers include Amanda Dykes, Becky Wade, and Ronie Kendig. Kimberley Woodhouse and Lisa Phillips will lead worship. More authors will be added to the event as reader registration increases!
Check out recent releases by participating authors in the JustRead Amazon Storefront.
RegisterThe registration fee (including a book tote, lunch, afternoon snack, and more) is $124 for readers. We’re nearing the reader registration mark to add more best-selling, debut, and indie authors to the 2024 event. Tell your friends and register today to pave the way by August 1!
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