Raquel V. Reyes's Blog, page 3

OjO–> VM Burns

Authors that write more than one series at a time always impress me. Valerie, VM Burns, writes three! Born in Indiana, she now lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee with two poodles that look an awful lot like the dogs on the covers of her Mystery Bookshop series.

Plotting and writing a full-length story is not easy. It is time consuming and often leads to late nights or early mornings staring into the mocking glow of a computer screen alone. Why do you write? Is it affliction or solace?

Honestly,...

OjO->Carolyn Wilkins

Carolyn Marie Wilkins has a great cover on Mojo for Murder and a great name for her main character, Bertie Bigelow. The second in the series features a Jamaican psychic and a  hot sauce king. If that doesn’t entice you to read it I don’t know what will. Carolyn is a jazz pianist and a professor at Berklee College of Music.

Plotting and writing a full-length story is not easy. It is time consuming and often leads to late nights or early mornings staring into the mocking glow of a computer scr...

OjO->Tracy Clark

Tracy Clark‘s first novel Broken Places has made almost every must-read-list and was nominated for  an Anthony and a Lefty. The second in her Chicago PI series, Borrowed Time drops May 29th. A native of the windy city, Tracy has a newspaper background and a soft spot for Nancy Drew.

Plotting and writing a full-length story is not easy. It is time consuming and often leads to late nights or early mornings staring into the mocking glow of a computer screen alone. Why do you write? Is it afflic...

OjO-> Nikki Dolson

Nikki Dolson writes gritty, female-in-the-lead noir and literary crime friction. She lives in the perfect neon lit city for noir, Las Vegas. All Things Violent is her debut novel on Fahrenheit Press. Her short stories have appeared in Thug Lit, Shotgun Honey, Betty Fedora, and Bartleby Snopes to name a few.  Her second full length novel Love & Other Criminal Behavior will drop November 2019.

Plotting and writing a full-length story is not easy. It is time consuming and often leads to late ni...

OjO-> J.L. Brown

J.L. Brown’s third novel in the Jade Harrington series is set to drop May 9th. J.L. is a political junkie that writes political thrillers. Who would have guessed?! What you might not have guessed unless you read her blog is that she is a big sports fan from futbol to football (the British kind) to football (the American kind) and all the other ball sports, too.

Plotting and writing a full-length story is not easy. It is time consuming and often leads to late nights or early mornings staring...

OjO–> Cheryl A. Head

Cheryl Head was recently induced into the Saints & Sinners Hall of Fame. Isn’t the coolest name for a writer’s festival? Cheryl is very active in the writing community–especially the crime fiction genre and  LGBTQ literary organizations. Her Charlie Mack Mystery series is on Bywater Books. I had the good luck to meet her at Bouchercon 2018. She is dynamic and a pay-it-forward type person. I hope you get to know her via this interview if you are not already a fan of her PI novels.

Plotting an...

OjO-> Jessica Laine

 

Jessica Laine is a Peruvian-American with Indigenous roots. Her awards include the 2017 Sisters in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland award and the 2016 Mystery Writers of America-Midwest Hugh Holton award. She writes crime fiction with a Latin twist. Her latest short story appears in the Murder-a-Go-Go’s anthology. Yes, you guessed correctly. It is a collections of crime stories centering on Go-Go’s songs. This 80’s kid has been eagerly awaiting its March 25th release date. (Bonus-> proceeds go...

OjO–> Richie Narvaez

 

 

 

Bienvenidos a Richie Narvaez. If you are a short story reader you may already know his name as he has a long list of them published in a wide array of anthologies and periodicals. Hipster Death Rattle is his first full-length novel. ¡Wepa! The cover is brilliant and the writing even better.Definitely keep your OjO on this guy.

Plotting and writing a full-length story is not easy. It is time consuming and often leads to late nights or early mornings staring into the mocking glow of a com...

OjO–> Delia Pitts

Delia C. Pitts  writes hard-boiled mysteries. She holds a doctorate in African history, has worked in the United States Foreign Service, Been a journalist in Chicago and has written over 60 fan-fiction stories under the pen name Blacktop.

Plotting and writing a full-length story is not easy. It is time consuming and often leads to late nights or early mornings staring into the mocking glow of a computer screen alone. Why do you write? Is it affliction or solace?

Writing drops me into a state...

OjO– S A Cosby

 

 

S.A. (Shawn) Cosby writes Southern Noir. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. His story “Slant-Six” was selected as a Distinguished Story in Best American Mystery Stories for 2016. When he isn’t crafting tales of murder and mayhem, he is a mortician’s assistant.

Plotting and writing a full-length story is not easy. It is time consuming and often leads to late nights or early mornings staring into the mocking glow of a computer screen alone. Why do you writ...