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Phyllis Gobbell's new novel, Prodigal, is Southern fiction, due for release November 2024. Her fourth Jordan Mayfair mystery is now available -Notorious in Nashville (2023)! Award-winner Treachery in Tuscany (2018) is third in the Jordan Mayfair Mystery Series that began with Pursuit in Provence (2015) and continued with Secrets and Shamrocks (2016). She also co-authored two true-crime books based on high-profile murders in Nashville: An Unfinished Canvas with Mike Glasgow (Berkley, 2007) and A Season of Darkness with Doug Jones (Berkley, 2010). She was interviewed on Discovery ID's "Deadly Sins," discussing the murder case in An Unfinished Canvas. Her narrative, "Lost Innocence," was published in the anthology, Masters of True Crime (Prome ...more

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Phyllis Gobbell Because I have a series going, I never have to wonder what to write. I know what's coming next in my story. But I do - often - have a "block" (we'll a…moreBecause I have a series going, I never have to wonder what to write. I know what's coming next in my story. But I do - often - have a "block" (we'll all it) that just won't let me get into the scene. How do I deal with it? I work through it like working through exercises at the gym that are hard - groaning, but keeping on keeping on. It's important to write something, even if, later, I have to trash it and do it over. Writing poorly at one point may get me to another point at which the writing flows.
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October means the Southern Festival of Books, the biggest, most important literary event in Nashville! Over 20,00 book lovers are expected to attend, October 12-14, downtown. Authors from all over the U.S. will be presenting.

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Notorious in Nashville by Phyllis Gobbell
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Posey Jarvis and her daughter Callie Jane are opposites whose alternating points of view give us a highly entertaining mother-daughter story set in a small Tennessee town in the 1960s.

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