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Briefly free Kindle short story, A Time for Eating Wild Onions, available worldwide, celebrates Oscar nominations for the Killers of the Flower Moon movie, particularly for Lily Gladstone as best actress. Wild Onions references the Osage wealth so well portrayed in KFM. It also gives backstory for the second Lynn Dayton thriller, Strike Price. https://www.amazon.com/Time-Eating-Wi...

Authors must cut scenes. So, short story: Robert & Therese Guillard: Choices. Taken from the context of 13 Days: The Pythagoras Conspiracy: Lynn Dayton Thriller #1--in this alt universe, Robert G's day of wingsuit flying darkens when he discovers his wife w/ her lover. An anti-Valentine's Day short story. Briefly free worldwide on Kindle. https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Therese...

Free for a few more days: a short story on Kindle about grandmothers and our love for them https://www.amazon.com/Josh-Rosen-Bub...

For anyone who has Kindle app & who has/had a grandmother. Though details are different, I was reminded recently of the origins of this (briefly free) short story w/my own grandmother. https://www.amazon.com/Josh-Rosen-Bub...

northern OK history spotlighted in STRIKE PRICE, Lynn Dayton Thriller #2, by Grann/Scorsese (book/movie) Killers of the Flower Moon & now by Vanity Fair https://lastarksbooks.com/books/strik... https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/...

My free twice-yearly newsletter is up. Book recs and KFM notes. https://lastarksbooks.com/2023/10/30/...

Lily Gladstone is excellent in Killers of the Flower Moon.

After attending a premiere, I can wholeheartedly recommend Killers of the Flower Moon movie, along with the David Grann's book. Good pacing, good acting.

Read David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon, get your tickets for Martin Scorsese's movie this week, and dive into other First American-themed books, like STRIKE PRICE.

Killers of the Flower Moon: fantastic vignette on the use of the Osage language in the movie. (Similar to use of Cherokee language in Strike Price.) https://www.motionpictures.org/2023/1...

#FirstAmericans economic clout in Killers of the Flower Moon and Strike Price https://lastarksbooks.com/books/strik...

Final few hours of global free Kindle short story that ties into STRIKE PRICE and adjacently, Killers of the Flower Moon movie and book: A Time for Eating Wild Onions https://www.amazon.com/Time-Eating-Wi...

Background short story to STRIKE PRICE, "A Time for Eating Wild Onions" is briefly free worldwide on Kindle. https://www.amazon.com/Time-Eating-Wi...

To learn more about First Americans, read STRIKE PRICE and KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON.

Bonus: Strike Price has a short book trailer. KFM will soon be a movie (next month).
https://lastarksbooks.com/books/strik...

Get or order copies of Oklahoma-set books KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (book sure to be a hit, award-worthy movie) and STRIKE PRICE at near-Osage-county independent bookstore Brace Books & More in Ponca City, Oklahoma. https://lastarksbooks.com/books/strik...

Get ready for the sure-to-be-hit movie Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese) by reading David Grann's book if you haven't already. And for a thriller set among this same First Americans' history & culture (Osage, Ponca, Cherokee), read STRIKE PRICE, Lynn Dayton Thriller #2. https://lastarksbooks.com/books/strik...

August 1 is it: award-winning Strike Price Kindle discount to £0.99 in UK and to $0.99 in US. Understand First American culture before Martin Scorsese's fall movie, Killers of the Flower Moon. US https://www.amazon.com/Strike-Price-D... UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=Strike+P...

Kindle editions of thriller Strike Price discounted to £0.99 in UK and to $0.99 in US. Know First American history & culture in advance of Martin Scorsese's fall movie, Killers of the Flower Moon. US https://www.amazon.com/Strike-Price-D... UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=Strike+P...

Briefly free worldwide, a Kindle short story tying First Americans, 70s challenges, and STRIKE PRICE, Lynn Dayton Thriller #2, while aligning with Killers of the Flower Moon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003NE6DGA

Venture Wednesday, April 26, to the stunning new Frisco Library at 8000 Dallas Parkway (75034) at 5:30-7:30 PM for a Q&A with authors of the short stories in the Sisters in Crime North Dallas mystery anthology, RECKLESS IN TEXAS: METROPLEX MYSTERIES VOLUME II.

Can't make the trip? Get your paperback or Kindle copy here.
https://www.amazon.com/Reckless-Texas...

Launch at the stunning new Frisco (Texas) Public Library in just over a week--April 26th, 5:30-7:30 PM--for RECKLESS IN TEXAS: Metroplex Mysteries Volume II anthology of short crime fiction by Sisters in Crime North Dallas authors. Community Event Room B (and appropriately, within shouting distance of the T Rex skeleton). Pls stop by if you're in the area.

The editor of RECKLESS IN TEXAS: METROPLEX MYSTERIES VOLUME II, Barb Goffman, just published an informative column in Sleuth Sayers with highlights from each of the ten stories' authors, as well as news of her own impressive award nominations! You can read the column here: https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2023/03/...

So happy to see that among the nominees from International Thriller Writers for best short story is our SinC anthology editor, Barb Goffman!
Link for the anthology and link for the ITW nominees:

https://www.amazon.com/Reckless-Texas...

https://thrillerwriters.org/2023-thri...

"May you have as much fun with these ten tales of murder and deception as I did, and may you remember them long afterward. As Carl Sandberg said, “Texas is a blend of valor and swagger.” So are these stories."
—from the Foreword by JOHN M. FLOYD Mystery short fiction from SinC authors, edited by Barb Goffman, recommended by best-selling thriller author Joseph Finder. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BW2KJPJW/

My semi-annual newsletter on books, energy, writing. PLUS pub day(s) for the new mystery short fiction anthology.

Here's a direct link to RECKLESS IN TEXAS: Metroplex Mysteries Volume II (paperback and Kindle).
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BW2KJPJW/

And this link will take you to my newsletter. https://lastarksbooks.com/2023/03/06/...
Happy reading! LAS