Entries by Bethany Maines

Many Thanks!

Welcome to the Stiletto Gang Black Friday Gift Guide! We here at the Stiletto Gang love our readers and hope that you’re all healthy and happy this holiday season. We’ve put together a list of our recent works to inspire you during the gift shopping free-for-all of Black Friday.  Aside from some fantastic sales many […]

Christmas is Coming!!

by Bethany “Run for the Hills” Maines Thanksgiving is looming and that means that… gulp… Christmas is around the corner!  But what that means for me is that I have some awesome new releases to share with readers. That’s right, I’ve been hard at work on stories of murder, romance, theft, and puppies. I may just […]

Wine & Murder

by Bethany Maines I want to kill someone in public. I don’t have a particular person. Just someone. Last weekend I volunteered for my business districts wine walk event.  It was a fun event that paired artists and wineries with local businesses.  Visitors bought a ticket which guaranteed them ten tastings from the wineries of […]

Supposed to be…

by Bethany Maines I’m not supposed to be writing this.  I have a pretty stiff yearly schedule on what I intend to write.  And while the Stiletto Gang blogs are on my schedule, I have currently abandoned all sanity and schedules and have started committing time to a project that is NOT on the calendar.  […]

Dancing in Red Shoes

by Bethany Maines We are celebrating our new logo this month and discussing what our red stiletto means to us.  As I have been recently taking a trip through the Grimm’s Fairy Tales and the stories of Hans Christian Anderson, I was immediately reminded of the story of the Red Shoes. In the story an […]

Sunburn and Books

by Bethany Maines Last weekend I participated in a “Literary Corner” at a local arts festival.  It was a chance to sell books, meet readers and network with other authors.  It’s always so great to see how other authors sell and a chance to learn some pointers.  It was also, as it turned out, a […]

Selected Readings

by Bethany Maines This week I’m going to take part in a live reading event called Noir at the Bar.  It’s a fun event that focuses on crime tales and the forties pulp-fiction style.  I’m excited to participate, but as usual it throws me into a tizzy of what to read.  Short stories come in […]

Post-Publication

By Bethany Maines Me Before Publishing: I just love writing and I would never bother anyone to buy my books.  In fact, I prefer not to talk to people at all.  I’ll just stay in my writing cave over here and type some more. Me After Publishing: BUY MY BOOKS!!!  REVIEW MY BOOKS!!! I NEED […]

Against the Undertow

by Bethany Maines It’s release day for Against the Undertow! I’m so excited to bring this book out into the world. The San Juan Island Murder Mystery Series is a little like Matlock went to the beach. It features a cantankerous ex-CIA agent, Tobias Yearly, and his granddaughter, Tish, as they solve mysteries from their […]

Diversity Through a Novel Lens

by Bethany Maines Diversity and inclusion are words we hear a lot of these days. And they’re also terms that get a lot of eye rolls. We already get bombarded with have-tos on a daily basis. Why should I have to think about including people that aren’t like me?  I was recently working with a […]