Protag interview and some upcoming events

cj Sez: Today, I’m interviewing Dr. Mirabel Campbell, the protagonistin the novel, THE DAWGSTAR.

Lyrical Pens: Dr. Campbell, tell us a little bit aboutyourself. What do you do for a living? Any hobbies?

 

Mirabel Campbell, PhD.: Call me Mirabel, please. I’m abotanist, and I’ve just finished working on the international genome project. Beforeyou ask, I was studying the genomes of plants, not people. Finishing theproject allowed me to spend more time with my new hobby, astronomy. Theskies around Mendocito, California, where I live are super dark and perfect forstar-gazing.

 

LP: So, you traded a microscope for a telescope. 

MC: When you say it that way, my life sounds pretty boring.Neither activity by itself is exciting by any stretch of the imagination, but letme tell you, the two of them together? You know how people say, ‘What you don’tknow can’t hurt you?’ I found out what I didn’t know could kill me.

 

LP: Oh wow. Whathappened?

 

MC: One night I was out with my brand-new telescope andspotted what I thought was a new comet. That chance sighting was nearly thedeath of me. I became the target of a sociopathic assassin and got dragged intothe middle of an international crisis—we’retalking foreign intrigue, DARPA, and the CIA. Obviously I survived. but twopeople close to me didn’t. That’s all I can tell you because of national securityissues. The things that can be made public are revealed in cj petterson’s tell-allbook, THE DAWGSTAR.

 

Lyrical Pens says: THE DAWGSTAR is a suspenseful thriller witha touch of rekindled romance when Mirabel’s ex-husband is the CIA agentassigned to keep what she saw from going public and to provide 24/7 protection.
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More Author and Reader Notes
  Congratulations to P.M. Raymond, the winner of the Sistersin Crime 2024 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Crime Writers of Color! 
  From the SinC announcement: “Raymond’s winning submission, ‘ANasty Business’ is set on a Louisiana farm where a family tradition forces theheirs to compete in a series of grueling tasks.”
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  This year’s annual Alabama Writers Cooperative (AWC)conference for writers, readers, and literary community.is happening September6-8, 2024, in Orange Beach, AL.
 For more info, click on the followinglink:  2024 Conference —Alabama Writers Cooperative
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  CALLAHAN IN ACTION, Book 6 in the CatCallahan Mystery Series, is scheduled to launch August 8, and it's availablefor preorder. Click on the link below so you can put your name on a copy now:  https://books2read.com/CatCallahan6 I got mine ordered.
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  LOYALTY, book 3 in author Carrie Dalby’s WashingtonSquare Secrets series, releases August 27, 2024. And it’s available forpre-order now!
“In the autumn of 1920, a murder-suicide shakes theresidents of Washington Square. Officer Jim Abbott doesn’t realize the returnof his shellshock is only the beginning of his concerns.”
  Original watercolor featured on the cover is by Mobile Bayarea artist Amanda Manley. 
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  Okay, that’s it fortoday. You-all guys keep on keeping on, and I’ll try to do the same. Raisingprayers for a happy and safe you and yours. (P.S.A.: Counting August, there arefive monthly paydays until Christmas.)
cj
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