Guesting, Publishing, Contracts… A Busy Day Today
Today is 12/12/12. It’s the last time this kind of date will happen for about 90 years. There’s nothing particularly auspicious about it. It’s a facet of the way we write dates, nothing more. And yet, for me, it’s turning out to be quite special.
I woke to find that Murder at the Murder Mystery Weekend is still in the UK Kindle British Detective top 100. It’s low down, for sure, but it’s still in there.
And now I have no less than four announcements to make.
First off, I’m guest posting over on Cathie Dunn’s excellent blog (link below). Cathie, who writes top-notch, historical romance/thrillers such as Dark Deceit, has allowed me space to give you some background to the STAC Mystery series. Today I’m concentrating on A Murder for Christmas, and on Friday, I’ll be talking about the above mentioned Murder at the Murder Mystery Weekend.
Next, for the fourth year running, my dear friends, Maureen Vincent-Northam, Laurie Clayton, and I, have cobbled together the annual Writelinkers Christmas Magazine. I’ve been a member of Writelink, and a moderator for about 8 years now, and the Christmas magazine is composed of work by the members, many of them published authors, some not yet published, but turning out a fine body of work just the same. You can follow the link from the bottom of the post.
Finally, two items about forthcoming releases.
The history of The Handshaker is splattered all over this blog, so I won’t go into it again. Early this year, I decided that Croft and Millie should have their own series, and the first stage of that process was to write a sequel The Handshaker. The second stage was to offer the series to Crooked Cat, who said, ‘yes, come on down’. The third stage is the transfer of publication rights of The Handshaker to Crooked Cat Books, as a platform for future titles. That process completes on January 18th when Crooked Cat Books will re-release The Handshaker under their imprint.
It’s one of the last of my self-published titles, and it will be the last I hand over to Crooked Cat. The rest, a scattering of bits and pieces, will never be developed any further than they are now, and they will remain with me.
I signed the publication contract yesterday, and The Handshaker will be removed from my lists just after Christmas. It will reappear on Crooked Cat’s on January 18th, so make a note in your diary.
It wasn’t the only publication contract I signed with Crooked Cat yesterday. My final item of news brings us full circle, back to the STAC Mysteries.
I’m giving nothing away when I tell you that Joe is feeling amorous in Murder at the Murder Mystery Weekend. By the turn of the year, he’s also feeling lonely and reckons it’s time he had a lady in his life. And what better time to find romance than St Valentine’s Day? And that is the catalyst for the sixth STAC Mystery, My Deadly Valentine.
This title gave me more headaches than my credit card bill, but it finally went off to Crooked Cat a week or so ago, and they liked it so much that the contract landed in my email yesterday.
A little darker than the others in the series, your favourite characters all have a role to play in the search for the Sanford Valentine Strangler, and this time Joe doesn’t have far to look for the main suspect… it’s him.
That’s all you’re getting for now. My Deadly Valentine is scheduled for release on February 6th 2013, so stay tuned for more news.
And that’s it. 12/12/12: a busy day.
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