Kate Carlisle's Blog - Posts Tagged "one-book-in-the-grave"
Mailing List Contest Coming Soon
To celebrate the upcoming release of Pages of Sin: A Bibliophile MysteryAn eSpecial from New American Library and One Book in the Grave, the next two Bibliophile Mystery stories, I'm going to hold a really fantastic contest soon with a one-of-a-kind prize. The winner will be chosen at random from the members of my mailing list, so be sure to sign up at www.katecarlisle.com. It's easy and free, and I promise I won't email you often enough to bug you!
Giveaway: ONE BOOK IN THE GRAVE jigsaw puzzle
Check out this fabulous 513-piece jigsaw puzzle of the cover of Bibliophile Mystery #5, One Book in the Grave: A Bibliophile Mystery! One lucky reader on my mailing list is going to win this fabulous puzzle, so be sure to sign up now at www.katecarlisle.com.
PAGES OF SIN Launch Party! (and Contest)
Time to get your party on! Although I realize that everyone’s a little party-weary after Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s… this is RELEASE DAY!!! Well, Release Day Eve. Pages of Sin: A Bibliophile Mystery - An eSpecial from New American Library, will be available tomorrow for download for the Kindle, NOOK, Kobo, Sony… everywhere ebooks are sold. If you don’t have an ereader, keep reading because I’ll tell you how you can read the book even without an ereader. Hey, I’m here to help!
So, now that I’m writing full-time, there’s very little I miss about the workaday grind, but one thing I did sort of miss this year was our annual office Christmas party. So let’s make today... read more
So, now that I’m writing full-time, there’s very little I miss about the workaday grind, but one thing I did sort of miss this year was our annual office Christmas party. So let’s make today... read more
PAGES OF SIN is available now!
Bibliophile Mystery fans, don't miss the ebook novella Pages of Sin: A Bibliophile Mystery - An eSpecial from New American Library, which is available now!
If you don't have an ereader, you can get free software from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Sony Reader so you can read the novella on your computer. Here are the links:
Kindle for PC
NOOK for PC
Sony Reader for PC
And don't forget that
One Book in the Grave will land in bookstores on February 7!
If you don't have an ereader, you can get free software from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Sony Reader so you can read the novella on your computer. Here are the links:Kindle for PC
NOOK for PC
Sony Reader for PC
And don't forget that
One Book in the Grave will land in bookstores on February 7!
Breaking Bibliophile Mystery News
Big news! I've been biting my tongue, sitting on my fingers, but now I can tell you because it's been announced in Publishers Marketplace... I just signed a contract to write THREE more Bibliophile Mystery novels!
Be sure to watch for One Book in the Grave on February 7!
"Get Cozy with Mystery" Giveaway
Want to win this One Book in the Grave coffee mug, plus a cheese board from Avery Aames, author of the Cheese Shop Mysteries... and books from both of us? Then enter the "Get Cozy with Mystery" sweepstakes!
Click here to get started: Get Cozy with a Mystery Sweepstakes
Contest! Contest! Contest!
There's still time to enter the "Get Cozy with a Mystery" contest from me and Avery Aames, author of Clobbered by Camembert! The winner will win books, a One Book in the Grave coffee mug, a lovely cheese platter from Avery, and other fun goodies!
Click here to enter: Get Cozy with a Mystery Sweepstakes
Click here to enter: Get Cozy with a Mystery Sweepstakes
ONE BOOK IN THE GRAVE is available now!
I'm excited to let you know that One Book in the Grave: A Bibliophile Mystery, is available today!Bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright's chance to restore a rare edition of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST seems a fairy tale come true—until she realizes the book once belonged to an old friend who died under mysterious circumstances. Brooklyn decides to track down the book dealer who last sold the prized BEAUTY, but finds him murdered. Now Brooklyn must unravel an intricate murder plot—before she ends up in a plot herself.
If you're in the Los Angeles area, I hope you'll join me and Avery Aames (The Cheese Shop Mysteries) at our joint book launch party at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore TONIGHT! We'll have wine, cheese, goodies, and giveaways. It's like a cocktail party—with books!
Or catch me at one of these upcoming events:
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 4:30 p.m.
Book signing and chat with Miranda James, Avery Aames, and Melissa Bourbon Ramirez
Murder By The Book
2342 Bissonet Street
Houston, TX 77005
Saturday, February 18, 2012, 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Book signing and chat with Avery Aames
Barnes and Noble
Hillsdale Shopping Center
11 West Hillsdale Boulevard
San Mateo, CA 94403
Saturday, February 25, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
All-day conference and multi-author book signing
Passion and Prose
Westin Long Beach
333 East Ocean Boulevard
Long Beach, CA 90802
As always, you can connect with me on Facebook and Twitter, and catch up with all the latest news at www.katecarlisle.com.
Learning from Mystery Novels
From the One Book in the Grave blog tour
I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately to what it is that we mystery readers love about mystery novels. For me, one of the biggest draws of mystery novels is that, with a lot of them, I can learn something while being entertained. What a concept! I especially love reading amateur sleuth mysteries, in which the hero or heroine is not a detective or a cop, but is in a completely non-crime related career field and somehow gets caught up in solving mysteries. The best of these books include... Click here to read the rest of my guest blog on Murder She Writes
I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately to what it is that we mystery readers love about mystery novels. For me, one of the biggest draws of mystery novels is that, with a lot of them, I can learn something while being entertained. What a concept! I especially love reading amateur sleuth mysteries, in which the hero or heroine is not a detective or a cop, but is in a completely non-crime related career field and somehow gets caught up in solving mysteries. The best of these books include... Click here to read the rest of my guest blog on Murder She Writes
Quirky Characters Welcome
From the One Book in the Grave blog tour:
Last week at the grocery store, a wizened woman on a bright red motorized scooter putt-putt-putted out of the liquor aisle. I stopped to let her pass. Her leg, in a cast, was propped up in front of her. She wore a hot pink track suit and a sunshine yellow hard hat. At her elbow sat a paper bag crumpled around an open bottle... Read more at Lesa's Book Critiques!
Last week at the grocery store, a wizened woman on a bright red motorized scooter putt-putt-putted out of the liquor aisle. I stopped to let her pass. Her leg, in a cast, was propped up in front of her. She wore a hot pink track suit and a sunshine yellow hard hat. At her elbow sat a paper bag crumpled around an open bottle... Read more at Lesa's Book Critiques!
