Damned If You Don't Giveaway!

If you leave a comment at Women of Mystery, May 10-13, you'll be eligible to win a signed copy of Damned If You Don't. I hope this excerpt from the current Gumshoe Review will lure you over.
 
Damned if You Don't by Anita Page
Review by Don Metzler
L&L Dreamspell Trade Paperback  ISBN/ITEM#: 9781603183819


"Author Anita Page's debut novel is a winner, start to finish. Page's characters come alive with the everyday concerns, fears, and challenges of real people, the sort of challenges that most of us deal with on a regular basis. The situations and scenes that Page draws are believable and down-to-earth, sometimes gut-wrenchingly familiar. From Hannah's involvement at a help center for battered and at-risk women, to the shady, graft-ridden politics of small town America, it all rings true. The sometimes lush but always well-developed settings in the Catskill Mountains of New York provide a backdrop that adds color and visceral substance. The prose is crisp and enjoyable to read, and the story moves at a pace that keeps the reader involved, but never seems frantic or hurried.

 The conclusion of Damned If You Don't leaves the door open for this becoming a series rather than a one-time effort. Future novels featuring amateur sleuth Hannah Fox would be welcome indeed."

Ian Williams was kind enough to allow me to talk about Damned If You Don't on The Catskill Review of Books, his weekly program on WJFF  Radio Catskill, a public radio station in Jeffersonville, New York. He's the kind of interviewer who not only reads your book but makes you forget you're on the air. Lots of fun. Follow the link if you'd care to listen.

Two Sentence Tuesday

 It's Two Sentence Tuesday over at Women of Mystery. Please join us there if you'd like to share two sentences you've written and/or two you've read. Here's my contribution from the WIP:


The conversation played out as Gaby had imagined, except that Stefan cleaned up his language because their son was there. She could hear Sam badgering Stefan to let him tell her the thing he’d forgotten to tell her about the gerbil, and then, “When is my mommy coming?” After a long silence, Stefan said she could come on Sunday between nine and eleven, and she knew he’d thrown her that crumb because Sam was at his elbow.

(I know, I know. That's three sentences, but it's okay to cheat.)

WWED (What Would Elmore Do)?

If you're looking for inspiration, there are a couple of items on the freebie table At Women of Mystery today.

What's the sound of one hand typing?

I have no idea. But the sound of two hands typing is another story. Read more at Women of Mystery today where you'll catch a link to Bill Meissner's lament on the subject.

When You Don't Know What You Don't Know

"...I was the avid mystery reader in the family, and assured him there wouldn’t be much of a leap between reading mysteries and writing one."

Read more at Poe's Deadly Daughters where I'm guest blogging today on this topic: When You Don't Know What You Don't Know.

A RAY OF HOPE!

NTTR: Novels to the rescue! At last, a ray of hope in this bleak political season. Read more at Women of Mystery.