METHOD 15/33 by Shannon Kirk

About the Book:

Imagine a helpless, pregnant 16-year-old who’s just been yanked from the serenity of her home and shoved in a dirty van. Kidnapped. Alone. Terrified.

Now forget her.

Picture instead a pregnant, 16-year-old, manipulative prodigy. She is shoved in a dirty van and, from the first moment of her kidnapping, feels a calm desire for two things: to save her unborn son and to exact merciless revenge.

She is methodical. She is calculating, scientific in her plotting. She might be a clinical sociopath. Method 15/33 is what happens when the victim is just as cold as the captors.

Method 15/33 is due out May 2015 but has already seen publicity as a finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition and now with it's own trailer.

For more information on the author and her work check out her personal website  and follow her on twitter.

Posted by Intern Stacy Briscoe (@SLBriscoe)

MISTRESS OF LIES Cover

Holly West's MISTRESS OF LIES (MOL)  cover.

MOL is published by Carina Press and 

available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

I'm very excited to share my author Holly West's cover for her second book MISTRESS OF LIES (MOL). MOL is due out in late September through Carina Press, a digital-first imprint of Harlequin. Holly's first book in the series is titled MISTRESS OF FORTUNE. 

To read more about Holly West, click here.

To pre-order MISTRESS OF LIES, click here.

A Sweet Review for BORDEAUX: THE BITTER FINISH

The Midwest Bookwatch Review is a monthly online book review publication showcasing reviews and commentaries from both staff and contributing editors and reviewers.  In the June edition, Klausner's Bookshelf featured a sweet review for our very own Janet Hubbard's Bourdeax: The Bitter Finish:

American wine critic Ellen Jordan asks NYPD Detective Maxine Maguire to act as her bodyguard while she visits Bordeaux, France. Once in country Ellen asks French speaking (from her mom) Max also to protect one of the four wine magnums valued at over $30,000 each by auctioneer Paula Goodwin though the American believes these are worthless frauds.

At the annual regional wine tasting gala in Lussac, experts test the contested wines for authenticity. However, Ellen dies from asphyxiation in her hotel room and the magnum Max left in the hotel safe has vanished. Max believes her client was murdered so she persuades her former lover French magistrate Olivier Chaumont and Commissaire Abdel Zeroual to allow her in on the investigation.

With a nod to Ellen Crosby's Wine Country Mysteries (though in France rather than Virginia) the second Vengeance in the Vineyard Mystery (see Champagne: The Farewell) is a super whodunit as suspects straddle both sides of the Atlantic. Fast-paced from the moment Max learns Ellen died, readers will enjoy this solid whodunit as questioning those with motives seems to disprove Vino Veritas.

Cheers -- I'll drink to that!

For more information about Janet, her books, and her wine visit her official website and follow her on twitter.

Posted By Book-nerd/Wine-snob Intern Stacy Briscoe

Prose & Cons Multi-Author Blog

My author Peter Hogenkamp recently wrangled my other authors (and me) to contribute on a regular basis to a multi-author blog called "Prose & Cons." Prose & Cons is making some waves. A recent blog post by my author Garrett Calcaterra, titled "Fantasy Rocks: 8 Rock Songs Inspired by Fantasy Novels," went viral on social-media website Reddit.com and was picked up by Tor.com as well as SF Gate.

To take a look at Garrett's article "Fantasy Rocks,"and check out the my other authors on the Prose & Cons blog, click here.

Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference 2014

The 21st annual Mystery Writers Conference is on for this July 24th through the 27th in Corte Madera, California.

Interested in attending?  Writers of all levels are welcome to learn clues from those whodunit before -- editors, agents, and publishers specializing in the mystery genre, including our very own Kimberley Cameron.  Check out the official website for details.

bookpassage.com/mystery-writers-conference

Posted by Intern Stacy Briscoe

The New Super Hero: Science Fiction Writers

When I was in high school, I took a science fiction class because I'm awesome and nerdy like that.  Actually it was because, although I fancy myself a book nerd, my home library was lacking in the science fiction department.

We read everything from Mary Shelly's Frankenstein to Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game.  No matter the year written, background of the author, or what characters he or she decided to portray, the running theme was always the evolution of man: Where did we come from?  What are we doing here?  Where are we going?

Our author Garret Calcaterra has written a very detailed article for the online edition of Black Gate on the science fiction genre and how the imagination of the present day mind helps shape our future.  So what great debacle should the Sci-Fi author tackle next?  Calcaterra's gentle suggestion: global warming.

Read the full article entitled Can SF Save the World From Climate Change? on the Black Gate website and feel free to add your thoughts to the debate in the comments section.

Garrett Calcaterra is a talented "author of dark speculative fiction."  His latest work Dreamweilder has been received by the literary community with rave reviews and his eBook The Knight's Dog has received over 34k downloads on Wattpad. To learn more about him, his writing, and latest full-length novel, check out his official website.  And don't forget to follow him on Facebook and Twitter.

Posted by Intern Stacy Briscoe, whose biggest sic-fi pet peeve are people who think sic-fi and fantasy are the same thing (they are NOT, read the difference here).

YESTERDAY'S ECHO by Matt Coyle Nominated for Anthony Award

Murder, mystery, and manhunt.  Matt Coyle's Yesterday's Echo -- as David Marshall, book critic and blogger from Thinking About Books, states -- "...is a book that does absolutely everything right."  So it's no wonder the author's first novel is nominated for an Anthony Award for Best First Novel this year.  Read more reviews here.

About the Award:

The World Mystery Convention, or Anthony Awards is named after Anthony Boucher, a mystery fiction critic, editor and author.  This is a nonprofit organization run by volunteers.  Learn more about the awards on the official website, as well as a list of other nominees and past winners.  You can also follow the organization on Facebook.

About the Book:
(From the book jacket)

Unable to escape his own past, Rick Cahill risks his life for a woman who is hiding her own.  Rick Cahill was never convicted of his wife's murder, but he was never exonerated either.  Not by the police.  Not by the media.  Not even by himself.  Eight years later, police suspicion and his own guilt remains over his responsibility in his wife's death.  When he meets Melody Malana, a beautiful yet secretive TV reporter, he sees a chance to love again.  When she is arrested for murder and asks Rick for help, the former cop says no, but the rest of him says yes, and he grasps at a chance for love and redemption.  Rick's attempt to help turns terribly wrong, and he becomes a suspect in the murder and target of a police manhunt.  On the run, Rick encounters desperate people who will kill to keep their pasts buried.  Before Rick can save himself and bring down a murderer, he must confront the truth about his own past and untangle his feelings for a woman he can never fully trust.

The book is available in hardcover, kindle, and audio and your local bookstore or online.

About the Author:

Needless to say (but we'll say it anyway), we are all proud of our author Matt Coyle here at Kimberley Cameron & Associates.  To learn more about the author, his writing, and events, check out his official website.

And don't forget to congratulate him on Facebook or Twitter.

Posted by KC&A intern Stacy Briscoe