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First Sunday! New Releases by the Stiletto Gang Members

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New Releases by the Stiletto Gang Members!

Join us in celebrating the latest books written by our blog mates! 


A MURDER OF PRINCIPAL – A million stories beyond the flagpole…

A MURDER OF PRINCIPAL starts when a maverick principal
comes in with a student-centered agenda, and there’s no more business as usual
at Lincoln High School. Killing the principal is just the beginning…

Someone sets fire to Lincoln High and kills its new principal.
Chaos threatens to overtake the urban school. Assistant Principal Sally Pearce,
hired by the deceased principal to help him revamp and change the culture, vows
to carry on the mission. In doing so, she gets caught up in gang threats,
racial tensions, grievances, sexual harassment complaints, and the murder
investigation, as well.

Sally never dreamed, when she stepped up to lead this culturally
diverse school, that she would be faced with solving a mystery and returning
the school to order. When a second murder happens on school grounds, Sally
realizes she is trapped in a cycle of violence that must be stopped.

Universal book link:  https://books2read.com/u/3yz0nl

Learn more at Saralyn Richard’s website:  http://saralynrichard.com 


MALBEC MAYHEM – Mix
a Spanish chef with an Italian winemaker and create some mayhem…Malbec
Mayhem!

Successful
restaurateur Alex Montoya’s charmed life has hit a snag. His trusted business
partner turned out to be not exactly trustworthy, and Alex could be facing jail
time over some of his partner’s shady financial deals. As if that weren’t bad
enough, creditors are calling in loans he didn’t know he had and he’s desperate
to prove his innocence before all his businesses are repossessed. 

After a
career-building stint in Napa Valley, Sofia Pincelli has returned home to
eastern Washington to take over the family’s winery. Running the family
business, however, means dealing with her ailing father’s constant
micro-management—and his disapproval of Alex. Her father’s condemnation of
Alex’s rumored involvement in his business partner’s schemes runs so deep, it
threatens Alex and Sofia’s blossoming romance…along with the Pincelli family’s
signature red wine. Sofia needs Alex’s crop of Malbec grapes to show her father
she has what it takes to make award-winning wine—and save the reputation and
finances of the Pincelli winery.

When the Malbec
grapes go missing, Alex and Sofia must join forces to find the fruit before it
spoils—or risk destroying both of their businesses and their hearts.

Universal book link: https://books2read.com/u/3n8xjP

Learn more at Cathy Perkins website: https://cperkinswrites.com  


MOMS IN BLACK – A Mom Squad
Caper

When Cassandra
Davenport applies for a job at www.savingtheworld.us, she expects to find a
‘green’ charity. Instead, she becomes the newest member of a covert
organization run by ex-government officials. Dubbed the Mom Squad, the
organization is the brainchild of three former college roommates—attorney
general Anthony Granville, ex-FBI agent Gavin Demarco, and tech billionaire
Liam Hatch—all of whom have lost loved ones at the hands of terrorists.
Financed by Hatch, they work in the shadows and without the constraints of
congressional oversight, reporting directly to Granville.

Demarco heads
up one of the six groups that comprise the new operation. He hires Cassandra as
the newest member of his New Jersey based team. In the course of monitoring
possible terrorist threats, the Mom Squad discovers a link to Cassandra’s
ex-husband. Before she’s fully trained, Cassandra is thrust into a world where
her ex may be involved with radicalized terrorists bent on killing as many Americans
as possible.

Universal book link:  https://books2read.com/u/3n8RQR  

Learn more at Lois Winston’s website: www.loiswinston.com

Food of Thoughts

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By Bethany Maines

Last weekend, I participated in a local author program
called Food for Thought.  Put on by the local
business district in partnership with a local literary group, CreativeColloquy, the program hosts different authors each week at a farmer’s market
for a minimal fee ($5).  These type of
events are great ways to connect with readers, brush up on my “elevator pitch”
for books, and see what’s resonating with the public.  The elevator pitch is essentially a one to
two sentence synopsis of a book.  And
with that many people visiting the booth, I can try out different versions and
wording to see what pitch makes people look interested in a book.  For my Carrie Mae Mysteries, slightly older
ladies resonate with “It’s the story of what would happen if Mary Kay ran an
international espionage organization.”  But
the younger women and men do better with “If James Bond was a woman.”  Even if I didn’t end up selling a good amount
of books, that kind of market research is pretty invaluable.  But, of course, being out in the public is
also a way to connect with the… um… unique individuals that walk among us.
My favorite unique person this last weekend was the
gentlemen who told us a series of stories about his experiences with ghosts
including some “Indians” because he had been staying at a house built on an “Indian
Burial Ground.”  The problem was that as
he meandered on about his experiences, the Native Americans he described
sounded straight on out of the movies, and lacked any resemblance to the actual
tribes that populate the area.  Not all
tribes wear “leathers” crazy face.  Our
tribes used capes woven from cedar bark and a type of fabric woven from the
hair of a now extinct type of dog.  <LEARN MORE HERE>  So…
try being more educated before doing drugs. Also, and not for nothing, if a
housing developer were to find human remains, archaeologists and police would
have to be called and the local tribes would claim the bodies.  Nobody wants to build on top of human remains
– they disintegrate, leaving cavities in the ground and make foundations
unstable.  It’s unsound construction, OK,
nut job?  And also, also, you’re scaring
people away from my booth.

But he’s just the tiny fly in the ointment. The majority of
people at such events are at minimum polite and usually excited about talking
to an actual author.  And in the end, talking to such enthusiastic readers and writers are what keep me coming back to
these type of events.  So if you see me
out and about, stop by to say hi.  Just
don’t tell me about your ghost experience… unless it’s historically accurate.
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Bethany Maines is the author of the Carrie
Mae Mysteries, Wild Waters, Tales
from the City of Destiny and An
Unseen Current.  You can also view the Carrie Mae youtube video
or catch up with her on Twitter and Facebook.