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Cover Reveal for CLOCK AND DAGGER

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ClockandDaggerClock and Dagger will be released on August 2. It is available for pre-order here. I love writing this series, and can’t wait for you to read the next adventure of Ruth Clagan.

Here’s a blurb about the book: Ruth has three days to pull off four events—including the grand reopening of Cog & Sprocket, the clock shop she inherited from her grandfather—so she doesn’t have time for Beckett Green’s nonsense. The competitive owner of a new bookstore, Green seems determined to put other businesses out of business by also carrying their specialty items. He’s trying to steal Ruth’s new watchmaker, Mark Pine, not to mention block her plans to renovate the town clock tower.

Ruth is already all wound up when she’s alarmed to discover Mark’s dead body. As the denizens of Orchard each chime in as to who they think the murderer is, Ruth needs to watch her back as she investigates on her own. Despite the danger, Ruth won’t stop until the killer is behind bars and serving time…

Isn’t the cover wonderful?

The Launch!

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There will be a more comprehensive post next week, post Bouchercon, but for now all I can say is WOW. What a night at the New England Mobile Book Fair! So, so many people came by to wish me well. It was overwhelming.

Truly a wonderful day in my life!

Photos from JKT launch!

It’s About Time!

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Photo for launch of Just Killing TimeI have been writing blog posts for the better part of the last week, getting ready to launch Just Killing Time. I am SO thrilled about this book, and I look forward to exploring the role of “published novelist” for the first time.

Tuesday night is the official launch party. 5:30-7 at the New England Mobile Book Fair. Then I am heading out to Bouchercon, where I will be on panel next Sunday morning. Over the next two weeks I am going to be doing a blog tour. I’ll be posting updates here.

This week the Wicked Cozy Authors are going to be celebrating the release. I will also be on Dru’s Book Musings (Tuesday), Maine Crime Writers (Tuesday), and Jungle Red Writers (Wednesday).

What Happened To My Hour?

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Today, March 8, 2015, is Daylight Savings time. Not my favorite day, since we lose a precious hour of sleep, and I never really recover.

It also is the first time in almost a year that I have posted on this blog. Not the first time I’ve done a blog post this past year. Over at Wicked Cozy Authors, my name crops up regularly. On Live to Write/Write to Live, I post every other week.

The year has also been a big one in my writing life. I am writing the Clock Shop Mystery Series as Julianne Holmes, and boy, has she been busy. My first novel, Just Killing Time, is going to be released on October 6. Book #2 is plotted, and being written (due May 15). Book #3 is due in January.

I am and at large member of the boards of Sisters in Crime, and Sisters in Crime New England. Both of these organizations mean the world to me, and I am thrilled to be involved. (If you are a mystery writer, join Sisters in Crime.)

So I’ve been busy, but haven’t been checking in. That will change, even though I’ve lost an hour. Though losing an hour is a fairly regular situation for me. NOTHING takes as long as I think it is going to take. You’d think by now I’d be better at it, but you’d be wrong. Even a ten minute walk takes twenty minutes these days, due in no small part to the mountains of ice and snow in New England, and the layers and layers of clothes I need to wear.

I sprang forward, rebooted the blog, and exercised this morning. Even though I lost an hour.