I am delighted to tell you that once again Sassy and Bridgy have been nominated for an Agatha Award. This time they are nominated for Best Short Story in the delightful tale of how they managed to find a bit of trouble on their very first day in Fort Myers Beach. You can click through to my short story page to read “A Killing at the Beausoleil“.
Agatha Award Best First Novel Well Read, Then Dead is temporarily available for $1.99 (that’s a 75% discount) across all e-book formats. Get ’em while the getting is good.
I am delighted to introduce the cover art of Read to Death, the third book in the Read ‘Em and Eat cozy mystery series. By now you’ve met a lot of the folks who frequent the Read ‘Em and Eat bookstore/cafe in Fort Myers Beach, Florida. Be prepared to meet a few more, and a couple of imports from Brooklyn as well.
When the Cool Reads/Warm Climate book club trip to the Edison and Ford Winter Estates ends in murder, Sassy and Bridgy’s moms feel compelled to leave Brooklyn and fly to Florida to keep their daughters safe.
All I can say is that these are two interesting women. I cannot wait for you to have a chance to meet the moms!
This month is the 60th Anniversary of the fabulous Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. I am delighted to have a story entitled “Inquiry and Assistance” in this very special issue. And I am busting my buttons seeing my name in the icing on the anniversary cake.
I have had a wonderful year. Well Read, Then Dead won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. Caught Read-Handed was released to a warm welcome from the reading public. And I joined acclaimed novelist Laura Childs in writing the thirteenth novel in her scrapbooking series, Parchment and Old Lace.
So I wish a joyful month for all of us filled with hope and prayer and love. May the spirit of the season fill our hearts and surround our spirits and may we truly be neighbors to each other.
Terrie
The paperback copy of Caught Read-Handed is at a reduced price on Amazon. I am mega-excited because this is the first price reduction since the book was released. You can buy it here. I check constantly because the sale prices on Amazon wax and wane. As soon as the sale ends I will let you know, but in the meantime, CRH makes a great present for cozy readers and shopping time is nearly upon us.
The entire mystery community gathered in Raleigh, North Carolina for several days of work and fun at the world’s largest gathering of readers, writers and industry professionals. I was honored to be on a panel called The Resurgence of the Traditional Mystery with such super stars as Dorothy Cannell, Marcia Talley, Wendy Corsi Staub and Helen Smith.
Helen Smith and I are all smiles after the panel was finished and deemed a huge success.
One of the highlights of the conference was the launch of Murder Under the Oaks, the Bouchercon 2015 anthology. Isn’t it great that so many of the authors who have stories in the anthology showed up to sign?
And it is always the most fun to spend a bit of time with old friends like Debra Goldstein and Dru Ann Love.
Terrie, Debra, Dru Ann
And next year the whole show moves to New Orleans.
Did you ever wonder about the first day Sassy Cabot and Bridgy Mayfield arrived in Fort Myers Beach? Were they excited to begin their new lives? Were they exhausted from a long day of travel from Brooklyn to Florida? Most likely excitement and exhaustion are to be expected. But murder? Who expects murder? And yet…
I am delighted to tell you the short story “A Killing at the Beausoleil,” prequel to Well Read, Then Dead and Caught Read-Handed has been published in the November 2015 issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, available now. And I am greatly honored to join the authors who have stories in this stellar edition of EQMM, including Carolyn Hart and Brendan DuBois who have both been generous enough to give the Read ‘Em and Eat series excellent blurbs.
Well it’s been nearly a month since Caught Read-Handed was released. I am so pleased that friends have been sending me pictures showing the book on it’s travels.
Thanks Karen Kenyon
Thanks Laura Bradford
Thanks Tommy Ragusa
Thanks Karen Owen
I cannot tell you how happy it makes me to have friends and readers send these great pictures to me on Facebook. So if you have a picture, please find me there and I will post it on the website.
I am thrilled to announce that Caught Read-Handed is available on bookshelves everywhere. And most library systems either have copies or have Caught Read-Handed on order. In e-book format the download is instant. So, why are you still here? Run and get a copy. I am dying to know what you think.
