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Guest Post: Reading, Promoting, And More with J. J. Hensley

Please welcome author J. J. Hensley to the blog today. He has a new book out, Record Scratch, which is the second book in his Trevor Galloway Series. The new book picks up a few months after Bolt Action Remedy ended. I have been reading a lot of positive reviews for the new book and that includes this recent review by David Nemeth over at his site, Unlawful Acts.

Reading, Promoting, And More with J. J. Hensley

Trevor Galloway Series #2

            Like most writers, I read. Actually, I read a lot. To be more accurate, I read and listen a lot. I always have one book waiting for me on my bed stand and an audiobook loaded on my cell phone. So, at night I might be reading an old Jonathan Kellerman paperback and during my commute I could be listening to Jennifer Hillier’s Jar of Hearts. I’m pretty much hooked on mysteries and thrillers, so the odds are a soft romance isn’t playing through my headphones when I’m in the gym and I usually don’t have anything dealing with killer robots on my Kindle. Well… I do have a seven-year-old, so there is a Transformers game on there and I hear a lot of explosions coming from the ol’ e-reader. So, I suppose there are actually killer robots on my Kindle.

            Thus far, 2018 has been a great year for mysteries and thrillers. Admittedly, I’m not awesome at keeping up with the latest and greatest and I’ll often ignore the hype surrounding new books, especially those published by one of the Big Five publishers. But several books, both big and small press, hyped and non-hyped, have stuck with me in a positive way over the past few months. I’m just as excited about what’s on my “to be read” list for the remainder of this year and the first part of 2019!

To recap some of my recent adventures in fiction:

            “Oh, you just have to read The Force, by Don Winslow. It’s so good.”

            “Don Winslow’s latest book is the bomb!”

            Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever.

I put this one off for a quite a while. It’s a big press book that gets lots of media attention which means marketing money gets tossed into the ring. If you’re like me and you go through a book every week or two, you learn marking buzz doesn’t always equate to quality. I also wasn’t excited about this book because I’m typically not blown away by police procedurals and I end up picking them apart because of my background in law enforcement. Then, a writer friend of mine whose opinion I trust told me I really need to check it out. Reluctantly, I did. Of course, then I was mad at myself for not reading it sooner. It’s gripping. And I’m completely aware when any author uses the word “gripping” it sounds like a lame attempt at a cool blurb, but that’s the word that comes to mind. The Force was certainly one of the better books I read this year.

            Earlier, I hinted I’m not much of a science fiction guy. Well, if anyone could convert me it’s Tom Sweterlitsch. I liked his first novel Tomorrow and Tomorrow. But, I LOVED The Gone World when I read it a few months ago. It’s got everything I don’t want in a novel. Time travel, futuristic inventions, other worlds—but, THIS… BOOK…IS… AWESOME. I thought about this book long after I turned the last page. In the interest of full disclosure, I know Tom. In fact, Tom helped drive the direction of my novel Record Scratch and I named a character in the book after him. However, if his book was mediocre then I would have plugged something else into this post and that would have been the end of it. Believe me. You’ll want to check out this book.

            An author whose work I’d wanted to read, and finally did, is Joe Clifford. I picked up his novel Lamentation and it didn’t disappoint. I’m already anxious to read more of Joe’s work because I can tell it’s going to have a lot of the elements I like in mysteries. Lamentation had an imperfect protagonist, a slew of shady characters, and there is something authentic about Joe’s work. If you’re a reader who needs a knight in shining armor as the main character, then this book may not be for you. However, if you want something that lends itself more toward gritty reality than fantasy, then give this one a shot.

Trevor Galloway Series #1

My To-Do List:         

My list of books to be read is extensive, but I have some highlights. I’m crazy excited for E.A. Aymar’s The Unrepentant. This book isn’t out until March 2019, but promises to have a dark side and work in a little comedy. I know Aymar, so I would expect nothing less.

            A while back, I read Shannon Kirk’s book Method 15/33 and was blown away. She has a sequel coming out and the English edition doesn’t have a title yet so I’ll just call it Shannon’s Psychotic Sequel. I had gone into Method 15/33 thinking the book was going to be the typical girl gets abducted and either struggles to escape or waits to be rescued type thriller. It was something much, much more devious and it was wonderful. The sequel promises to be unpredictable in all the right ways.

            I’m so far behind on my list and I’m kicking myself because I still haven’t read Silent Hearts by Gwen Florio. I absolutely loved Florio’s Lola Wick’s series, and I know this deviation into a tale of two women caught up in the Afghan War. Florio is a journalist and has spent time in that region and she brings realism to all of her novels. Silent Hearts will be no different.

            In between reading these great books, I’m out promoting my new novel Record Scratch and working feverishly on my next Trevor Galloway mystery, Forgiveness Dies on the Vine. The best part of having a great reading list is it sets the bar high for what an author wants to achieve in one’s own work. With this list, the bar is set pretty damn high.

J. J. Hensley ©2018

J.J. Hensley is a former police officer and former Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service. Hensley is the author of the crime novels RESOLVE, MEASURE TWICE, CHALK'S OUTLINE, BOLT ACTION REMEDY, RECORD SCRATCH, and several short stories. He is originally from Huntington, WV and currently resides near Savannah, Georgia. You can learn more about the author and his books by visiting his website http://www.hensley-books.com/

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Guest Post: Judy Hogan--How Did Passionate Love Come Into My First Mystery?

Please welcome Judy Hogan to the blog today…

How Did Passionate Love Come Into My First Mystery?

Photo Credit: “The City and County of Swansea”

The Sands of Gower: The First Penny Weaver Mystery.  Hoganvillaea Books, December 2015, Paperback: $15.00 ISBN-13: 978-1515191063  E-book: $2.99. 194 pages

As a writer, my first published work was poetry.  Cassandra Speaking came out in 1977.  Beginning in 1981, I scraped together enough money to go to the U.K.. for six weeks.  I called it a writing vacation.  My ex-husband had the children in the summer months.  Once there, I found Wales my favorite place, very conducive to writing poetry, especially the Gower Peninsula near Swansea.

Somehow during the years after separating from my husband in January 1975, I began falling in love a lot–one man at a time.  It surprised me.  It didn’t take much–some man’s friendly interest, and I loved him.  Not much happened.  It wasn’t the same for him, I always came to realize.  As for my feelings, I decided they were normal.  Men talk about the attractiveness of various women and don’t think anything about it.  Woman have their fantasies, too, I thought. 

In fact, a few years later when I had read Carolyn Heilbrun’s book Writing a Woman’s Life, I decided that I fitted her understanding that for some writers, falling in love was a way to stimulate the Muse.   Some people need to write more than to have an actual love affair. She suggested that W.B. Yeats did that.  I wrote a lot of love poetry those years, and Wales became my favorite place to give myself a big chunk of writing time, it being so conducive to poetry, especially the Gower Peninsula.

The year that I began plotting The Sands of Gower, in 1990, I had visited Kostroma, Russia, as part of a Sister Cities writer exchange, and this time when I fell in love, with my Russian partner in the exchanges, he also fell in love with me.  Then I went to Wales.  The poems I wrote that summer were for him.  I published two books written not long after that, in 1990-91 and 1992 (This River: An Epic Love Poem and Beaver Soul.  It made complete sense to me to have my mystery novel’s amateur sleuth, Penny Weaver, fall in love with the Welsh detective inspector with whom she worked to solve the crime.  Looking back, I’m sure some of my passion in the book was coming from that Russian visit.  We held our erotic feelings in check in Kostroma, but they were certainly present.

Then the Gower landscape is perfect for describing passion.  The wind off the sea is normally 40 mph, and then as I ranged the cliffs, I saw the impetuous waves crashing against the rocks.  Everything I saw became part of how I felt.  A few years earlier I had written:

Love is a golden liquid,

and today the sea is gold.

Heavy with light, it moves

toward foam and land.

I sit among grasses and laces,

wild parsley’s delicate umbel;

the lavender faces of woundwort;

below me the dark rocks

the tide is pulling away from.

Above me a gull, flying

without flapping....

A sailboat

skims in the golden sea, its bows

almost hidden by light.

Will the light engulf me then?  Will I

weather that sea, plated gold, but underneath,

salty and cold?  Only by remembering

all the kinds of light, and being able to return

when I am troubles to the drop of gold

in a single tormentil.                Light Food, p. 59-60 (1989)

I was in Gower in 1981, 85, 88, 90, 95, and 96.  In 1990 I sprained my ankle and couldn’t go out by day to walk and write poetry, so I wrote of the landlady’s garden, and some passion flowers climbing up the wall of her home, which I could see from my bedroom window, and I read mysteries.  One day she suggested I write my own “murder,” as she called it.

My amateur sleuth is a poet like myself, the same age, but gifted in detecting.  On the morning in The Sands of Gower when the death of the difficult, narcissistic German woman’s body was discovered on the sand at Three Cliffs Bay, Penny meeting Kenneth Morgan, come to investigate, and not only does Penny fall in love, but so does Inspector Morgan.  Both in their fifties, and unattached, and they both fall hard.  Kenneth knows the village, but Penny had come to know the other guests at the B&B, one of which could well be the murderer.  So Penny helps the police with their inquiries, and their attraction is somewhat hampered by the needs of the investigation, and vice versa.

Here’s the plot.:Penny begins a new and lively stage of life, her children raised, with a powerful erotic attraction, and the freedom to cross lines that usually hold people apart.

            The Sands of Gower is set in a Bed and Breakfast on the Gower peninsula near Swansea, Wales.  Penny Weaver, luxuriating in her two-month vacation, is disturbed by the murder of a German guest.  Penny’s independent, outspoken American lifestyle contrasts with the more conservative ways of the village’s pensioners.  In the process of solving the crime, Penny and Detective Inspector Kenneth Morgan are powerfully attracted.  This, plus the British post-World War II continuing distrust of the Germans, complicates their investigation.

Judy Hogan ©2015

Judy Hogan Bio

Photo Credit: Lee Sauer

Judy Hogan’s first two mystery novels, Killer Frost (2012) and Farm Fresh and Fatal (2013) were published by Mainly Murder Press in CT.  Judy founded Carolina Wren Press (1976-91) and was co-editor of Hyperion Poetry Journal (1970-81).  She has published six volumes of poetry and two prose works with small presses. She has taught all forms of creative writing since 1974. In 1983 she helped found the North Carolina Writers’ Network and served as its first president (1984-7).  She joined Sisters in Crime in 2007 and has focused on writing and publishing traditional mystery novels.  In 2011 she was a finalist in the St. Martin’s Malice Domestic Mystery contest for Killer Frost. In 2015 she decided to set up Hoganvillaea Books, her own publishing imprint, in order to publish more of her mysteries. The Sands of Gower: The First Penny Weaver Mystery is her first release under this new imprint. Her Penny Weaver series takes up community issues.  Most of the novels take place in central North Carolina fictional village of Riverdell, but three take place on the Gower Peninsula in Wales where Penny meets and falls in love with Kenneth Morgan, a Welsh Detective Inspector.  The twists and turns of her life’s path over the years have given her plenty to write about.  She is also a small farmer, a community activist, and lives in Moncure, N.C., near Jordan Lake.

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Guest Post: Lois Winston and Where She Gets Some Of Her Ideas

Please welcome author Lois Winston to the blog as she discusses where she gets some of her ideas….

My husband and I live in one of the “bridge and tunnel” community of New Jersey, so named because many of the state’s residents, my husband included, either commute into Manhattan via the George Washington Bridge or through one of several train and car tunnels under the Hudson River. Because

we’re so close to the city, real estate prices are much higher here than in many other parts of the country. For this reason, when my husband came across a recent real estate listing for a home several blocks from us, it piqued our curiosity.

HOUSE FOR SALE

$341,100

5 beds 2.5 baths, built in 1957

nearly 9,000 sq. ft. lot with pool

estimated value: $742,495

Great opportunity to own in (name of our town) for way under market. Interior condition is unknown. Interior and exterior inspections are not available, and the property is being sold as-is. Property is occupied. Inspections not available. Contact with occupants is prohibited. Buyer is responsible for all inspections & municipal certificates, including certificate of occupancy.

Why would anyone sell a house for half its value? We walked over to take a look. From the outside the home appeared well maintained. No peeling paint. No deteriorating roof. No piles of trash in the yard. The lawn was neatly trimmed, the leaves raked, the shrubs pruned.

The mystery writer in me immediately began churning possible scenarios. Was this listing the result of a nasty divorce? An estate sale with feuding siblings? A rental property occupied by squatters the owner couldn’t evict? Did the house sit over a massive termite colony? Had it been used to cook meth? Was it the scene of a murder? No matter what the problem, it seemed evident the owner was attempting to unload a massive problem onto some unsuspecting bargain hunter. If he succeeded, would the new owner retaliate in some way once he had keys in hand and realized the scope of the problem?

No matter what the situation, as a writer I’d hit the mother lode. The plot possibilities continued to bombard me as we walk home. My husband even came up with a few ideas I hadn’t considered.

Authors are often asked where we get the ideas for our stories and characters. My ideas often come from my own personal experiences or events I’ve either witnessed, read about, or seen on the news. Sometimes a combination of all all of these. Yet, even though one of the maxims of fiction is to write what you know, I never realized how much my own life impacted my stories until I took a look at my catalogue of work.

I’ve published more than two dozen novels, novellas, and short stories in the past ten years. Looking at each one, whether mystery, romance, romantic suspense, or even my middle grade children’s book, I find elements of my own life’s experiences, newsworthy events, and people who have impacted me in one way or another. Some of this was deliberate. Other times it was subliminal and only afterwards did I make the connection between the story and my own life.

These influences run the gamut from minor references in scenes to major characters and plots. For instance, in the late 90’s a Main Line Philadelphia latex glove salesman convicted of strangling his lawyer wife turned out to be leading a double life. Love, Lies and a Double Shot of Deception, my award-winning romantic suspense and my second published book, is not even remotely based on this case, but the case inspired the book in several ways, including the double life of my protagonist’s husband, the Philadelphia setting, and one of the minor characters.

A few years after writing Love, Lies and a Double Shot of Deception, I accompanied a recently divorced friend to our local bookstore. This was several years before online dating sites changed the world of dating. My friend was feeling vulnerable and unsure how to go about getting back into the dating pool. She was also a stockbroker and used to doing in-depth research. So she purchased an armload of how-to-catch-a-man advice books, including the infamous The Rules, and set about learning how to snag her next husband. Thanks to her, I came away from that bookstore trip with the idea for my award-winning romantic comedy Hooking Mr. Right.

My humorous amateur sleuth Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series is probably influenced the most by my own experiences. Anastasia is forced to share her home with her communist mother-in-law. For six long years I shared a home with my own communist mother-in-law. We got along as well as Anastasia and Lucille get along—which is to say, not at all. I’m still not sure whether creating Lucille was catharsis or revenge on my part or simply a case of turning lemons into lemonade, but Lucille has become the character readers love to hate. Although some readers implore me to kill her off, most would boycott my books if I ever did. So the curmudgeonly Lucille is here to stay.

I’ve also given Anastasia a profession I know intimately. Anastasia is a crafts editor at a women’s magazine. For many years I worked as a craft designer and editor for magazines, book publishers, and kit manufacturers. Although I’ve often had to research various aspects of my plots, I’m able to draw from my own years of experience for Anastasia’s job.

But the influences don’t stop with characters and professions. Revenge of the Crafty Corpse finds Anastasia moonlighting as an arts and crafts teacher at a senior living residence. I based the setting on a place where some family members lived.

Several years ago my husband and I took a trip to Barcelona. I fell in love with Parc Güell and decided it would make a perfect setting for one of Anastasia’s adventures, which became Mosaic Mayhem.

I’ve also drawn from my experiences raising teenage sons. However, Anastasia and I differ in one extremely huge way: my husband is still very much alive and definitely not a gambling addict. At least I don’t think he is. Come to think of it, Anastasia didn’t have a clue about Karl’s duplicity until he dropped dead in Las Vegas. Hmm…maybe I’d better do a bit of investigating myself…

Lois Winston ©2015

There are currently five full-length novels in the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series, which

include Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun, Death by Killer Mop Doll, Revenge of the Crafty Corpse, Decoupage Can Be Deadly, and the recently released A Stitch to Die For, as well as three mini-mysteries: Crewel Intentions, Mosaic Mayhem, and Patchwork Peril.

USA Today bestselling and award-winning author Lois Winston writes mystery, romance, romantic suspense, chick lit, women’s fiction, children’s chapter books, and nonfiction under her own name and her Emma Carlyle pen name. Kirkus Reviews dubbed her critically acclaimed Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series, “North Jersey’s more mature answer to Stephanie Plum.” In addition, Lois is an award-winning craft and needlework designer who often draws much of her source material for both her characters and plots from her experiences in the crafts industry. Visit Lois/Emma at www.loiswinston.com and Anastasia at the Killer Crafts & Crafty Killers blog, www.anastasiapollack.blogspot.com. Follow everyone on Tsu at www.tsu.co/loiswinston, on Pinterest at www.pinterest.com/anasleuth, and onTwitter at https://twitter.com/Anasleuth. Sign up for her newsletter at https://www.MyAuthorBiz.com/ENewsletter.php?acct=LW2467152513

Guest Post: Judy Penz Sheluk-- When Less Needs More: The Story Behind THE HANGED MAN’S NOOSE

Please welcome author Judy Penz Sheluk as she explains the background to her new mystery ….

When Less Needs More: The Story Behind THE HANGED MAN’S NOOSE

As writers, we are often asked where we get our ideas. In the case of my debut mystery novel, The Hanged Man’s Noose, the story began in a Creative Writing Workshop. The short story itself wasn’t particularly brilliant (or even particularly good), but it did set the stage for what would eventually become The Hanged Man’s Noose, the first novel in the Glass Dolphin Mystery Series. Consider the opening:

“Arabella Carpenter’s day started off just like any other, with a three mile walk from her one bedroom apartment in midtown, to The Glass Dolphin Antiques on Main. The unit, as she referred to it, was on the tenth floor of a sterile glass and steel tower. The apartment had been somewhat optimistically billed as “overlooking” Lount’s Landing, although to do so required leaning over a small balcony and precariously craning one’s neck to the left.

Not that there was much to see. Lount’s Landing was a once small village that had, over the course of several decades, accepted growth with some reluctance, and urbanization in bits and bytes. The end result was a rather schizophrenic mix of high-rise condos and sprawling McMansions, amid an assortment of post-war bungalows, freehold townhomes, and dreary neighborhood parkettes.

The Glass Dolphin, on the other hand, was housed within a meandering warehouse conversion in what the locals liked to call the old part of town. In keeping with the building’s “industrial authenticity,” the architects had preserved some of its quirkier details, including exposed glass block and brick, wide pine plank floorboards, and tall open ceilings with the original ductwork on view. A cynic might suggest that conserving such details also saved the developer money, but no matter, such ambience was the perfect backdrop for a modern day antiques shop. At least that’s what Arabella had told herself last month when she signed a three-year lease.

She decided to name the shop after her first antique find, a sapphire blue Boston & Sandwich pressed glass candlestick, circa 1840. Arabella loved the way the dolphin’s head rested on a slab glass base, its mermaid-like tail curling seductively upward.

Still, there were some, among them Arabella’s ex-husband, who might say that this wasn’t the time to invest heart and soul (not to mention one’s hard fought life’s savings) into brick and mortar, especially when so much of today’s antiques trade was negotiated online. But while Arabella respectfully acknowledged that an Internet presence may be necessary, replacing lemon oil and old leather for search engines and live bidding was as foreign to her as relinquishing the tactile feel of page and paper for a Kindle.”

Yes, I know what you’re thinking: the opening is far too longwinded for a short story. After all, we’re at 370 words and there’s still no hint of a mystery. But part of me had already fallen in love with Arabella Carpenter, an irascible thirty-something throwback in time who loves antiques and hates social media. I knew I couldn’t let her languish in the pages of an unpublished short story. I knew I had to create a world for Arabella to live in.

I wish I could tell you that I immediately began outlining The Hanged Man’s Noose, or that the ideas and the words flowed onto the page, tumbling upon one another in their rush to get out. The harsh reality is that it would be another year before I even started on the novel.

Now, I can blame any number of things for my procrastination, and probably did at one time or another, but undoubtedly my most ironic excuse was this: I was already too busy writing. You see, in my day jobs I’m a freelance writer, and the Senior Editor of New England Antiques Journal and the Editor of Home BUILDER Magazine. Those who aren’t familiar with the role of magazine editor might think all an editor does is assign features and tweak punctuation and grammar, but the truth of the matter is we do all that, plus write a good deal of the copy (much of it without a byline).

So the “too busy writing” excuse become my official mantra. “Other folks write to get from their day jobs,” I’d lament to any poor sod who was willing to listen. “If I was a plumber, and I plumbed all day, writing would be my escape.”

Thankfully, Arabella Carpenter wasn’t listening. Instead, she continued to live on in my head, prodding me with new ideas and stickier situations. “What if a big shot, big city real estate developer came to the sleepy little town of Lount’s Landing?”

Hmmm …

“What if he had plans to convert the deaccessioned elementary school at the foot of historic Main Street into a mega-box store?”

Double hmmm … I’d seen firsthand how animated small town folks can be when it comes to development—not that I’d ever heard of anyone getting murdered over it. But the idea stuck with me, until finally, on the morning of Christmas Eve, 2011, with nearly two weeks of time off looming ahead of me (and no real vacation plans), I decided to take the plunge. After all, what was I going to do for the next twelve days if I didn’t write? It wasn’t like I could take up plumbing.

I’m not saying it was easy, and I’m not saying I didn’t make my fair share of rookie mistakes. I may make my living as a writer and editor, but I discovered early on that writing a 70,000-word amateur sleuth mystery was a far cry from writing a 1,000-word fact-based feature article. In fact, truth be told, the first draft was nothing short of abysmal. What that first draft did, however, was prove to me that I could write as an escape from my day job, and escaping to Lount’s Landing, to Arabella and company, became as vital to my daily routine as exercise, eating and sleeping.

I’ve been asked if Arabella is like me, and the short answer is no, although I do admire her unrepentant expectation for authenticity in objects and people alike, and I’ll admit I can be every bit as irascible.

I also share her passion for cookies.

Stay tuned for Judy’s next post: When More Needs Less—The Story Behind “Beautiful Killer,” a flash fiction story in the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s FLASH AND BANG anthology.

Judy Penz Sheluk ©2015

Bio

Judy Penz Sheluk’s debut mystery, The Hanged Man’s Noose, was published July 2015. Her short crime fiction is included in The Whole She-Bang 2, World Enough and Crime, and most recently, Flash and Bang, the first anthology by members of the Short Mystery Fiction Society.

Judy is a member of Sisters in Crime, Crime Writers of Canada, International Thriller Writers and the Short Mystery Fiction Society. Find Judy at www.judypenzsheluk.com, where she blogs about the writing life and interviews other authors.

Buy Links

The Hanged Man’s Noose is available in print and eBook at http://www.barkingrainpress.org/dd-product/hanged-mans-noose/  and all the usual suspects including Amazon http://authl.it/3jg

Flash and Bang is available in print and eBook from Untreed Reads http://store.untreedreads.com , as well as all the usual suspects, including Amazon http://authl.it/3wb    

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