Typos fixed. Formatting fixed. Dedication written. QR codes embedded. The Wedding Fatality is on sale now at Amazon.
The CreateSpace software at Amazon makes it easy. If I say so myself, the book looks great. It's got words in it, and my name is on the cover. I hope you like it.
As for the next story (to be written; the next one to be published already is in the can), I read an interesting article somewhere on the web about why mystery writers never have a female thrill-killer villain. The article concludes that it's because there are so few in real life, and therefore a book with that kind of criminal would not lend itself to versimilitude. Science fiction or paranormal is one thing -- Paul's personality and memories migrated to Amy, and if the story line piques a reader he or she accepts it for the sake of the novel and reads on. Harry Potter is a wizard. Death speaks IN CAPITAL LETTERS. Ford Prefect is from a small planet in the neighborhood of Betelgeuse. Angel is a vampire.
But, the article suggests, the reader's expectations in the murder mystery genre are too grounded in reality for that sort of suspension of disbelief. How can there be a female Ed Goins when we all know women are not sadistic thrill killers?
Oddly enough, that evening I watched an episode of Father Brown that featured a woman as an indiscriminate thrill killer. Seemed as believable as any of the other Father Brown stories.
I'm enjoying fantasizing switching genders of the bad guys in the next Amy and Paul novel. Have the Alpha bad gal with a backstory of being abused and now wanting to get back at her ethnic tormentor by targeting people of that ethnicity. A Beta gal who might be a sister. A slightly younger but hulking idiot brother who supplies the muscle. I particularly like imagining the confrontation where the Alpha bad gal evaluates the captured Amy as a potential sex slave to be sold to some Arabian potentate.
I probably will not make this change, but it's fun to think about. Maybe some future story, about a mild mannered widow with a curious herb garden in the backyard and a crawl space full of human bones?
The Wedding Fatality is available in paperback and Kindle. Let me know what you think of it, okay?
The CreateSpace software at Amazon makes it easy. If I say so myself, the book looks great. It's got words in it, and my name is on the cover. I hope you like it.
As for the next story (to be written; the next one to be published already is in the can), I read an interesting article somewhere on the web about why mystery writers never have a female thrill-killer villain. The article concludes that it's because there are so few in real life, and therefore a book with that kind of criminal would not lend itself to versimilitude. Science fiction or paranormal is one thing -- Paul's personality and memories migrated to Amy, and if the story line piques a reader he or she accepts it for the sake of the novel and reads on. Harry Potter is a wizard. Death speaks IN CAPITAL LETTERS. Ford Prefect is from a small planet in the neighborhood of Betelgeuse. Angel is a vampire.
But, the article suggests, the reader's expectations in the murder mystery genre are too grounded in reality for that sort of suspension of disbelief. How can there be a female Ed Goins when we all know women are not sadistic thrill killers?
Oddly enough, that evening I watched an episode of Father Brown that featured a woman as an indiscriminate thrill killer. Seemed as believable as any of the other Father Brown stories.
I'm enjoying fantasizing switching genders of the bad guys in the next Amy and Paul novel. Have the Alpha bad gal with a backstory of being abused and now wanting to get back at her ethnic tormentor by targeting people of that ethnicity. A Beta gal who might be a sister. A slightly younger but hulking idiot brother who supplies the muscle. I particularly like imagining the confrontation where the Alpha bad gal evaluates the captured Amy as a potential sex slave to be sold to some Arabian potentate.
I probably will not make this change, but it's fun to think about. Maybe some future story, about a mild mannered widow with a curious herb garden in the backyard and a crawl space full of human bones?
The Wedding Fatality is available in paperback and Kindle. Let me know what you think of it, okay?