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Iza Moreau

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Mystery, Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

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Iza Moreau is a three-time Lesfic Bard Award Winner, a two-time Rainbow Award Winner, a a Golden Crown Finalist, a , and a 10-time Next Generation Indie Award finalist. She lives in the Deep South and counts Sarah Waters, Maggie Estep, and the Bronte sisters--Acton, Currer, and Ellis--among her literary influences.

THE NEWS IN SMALL TOWNS, the first novel in the Small Town series, was a Next Generation Indie Award finalist in both Mystery and Regional Fiction.

The second, MADNESS IN SMALL TOWNS, was also an Indie finalist in Mystery.

SECRETS IN SMALL TOWNS was a Golden Crown Finalist in Mystery/Thriller as well as an Indie finalist in Lesbian fiction.

MYSTERIES IN SMALL TOWNS was an Indie finalist in Lesbian fiction.

The XYZ MYSTERIES was a fi ...more

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Why did you decide to have a co-author for the last two books of your Elodie Fontaine Mystery Series?

Iza Moreau After writing and publishing a dozen books between 2012 and 2022 I found myself in a quandary. There were still two books in the Elodie Fontaine serie…moreAfter writing and publishing a dozen books between 2012 and 2022 I found myself in a quandary. There were still two books in the Elodie Fontaine series that demanded to be written but I had exhausted my store of plot devices and conversations. The quality of my writing was fine; I just didn't have any more ideas.

As a connoisseur of lesbian mystery novels, I had been knocked off my reading couch by the novel Where the Hell is Tessa Ryker, by R. E. Conary, which had won that year’s Rainbow Award for Lesbian Mystery. It is the latest book in his own series of lesbian mysteries—The Rachel Cord Confidential Investigations. His handling of a teenage co-protagonist was consistent with my own characters in the Elodie Fontaine series and his style was similar—but not too similar—to my own. I realized that if he consented to help me, not only could he feed me ideas, but his style would invigorate and spice up my own.

So I swallowed hard and sent him an email along with the first 4 books in the series, which he read conscientiously. Then he wrote back and said that he would be happy to co-write the last two books. And I’m delighted to say that Bob is fabulous to work with and we turned out both remaining books—Billy’s Legacy and Stormy Weather, in under a year.
So, are the final books as good as the first? I think so, yes. Although the series takes place within a school year, Elodie grows until her later adventures deal with more adult subjects and we try to push the envelope in what constitutes a modern—versus a Nancy Drew—girl mystery.

And it is worth remembering that most of the Nancy Drew mysteries were written by several different authors under the name of Carolyn Keene. Many, if not all, of these had co-writers so that the ones written by Mildred Wirt Benson got their ideas from either publisher Edward Stratemeyer or his daughter Harriet Adams. And both the Vicki Barr and Cherry Ames series of girls’ mysteries were written by both Helen Wells and Julie Tatham (although not together.) Bob was my Stratemeyer!

So co-writing YA mystery books has a long tradition. I’m glad to be part of it. Check out the whole series; I think it’s a good one and it is certainly ground-breaking.

And there’s no way I could have finished it without R. E. Conary.(less)

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	The News in Small Towns (Small Town Series, Book 1) 3.85 avg rating — 89 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Madness in Small Towns (Small Town Series, Book 2) 4.29 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secrets in Small Towns (Small Town #3) 4.42 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mysteries in Small Towns (Small Town Series, Book 4) 4.13 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Question of Breeding 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tank Baby (Elodie Fontaine Mysteries Book 1) 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swamp Girl 3.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trail Ride and Barn Dance After (Small-Town Series) 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghost in the Piano (Elodie Fontaine Mysteries Book 2) 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The XYZ Mysteries 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Last week I was honored to receive my third Lesfic Bard Award for lesbian fiction. What's more, I did it in three different categories. Tank Baby, the first book in my Elodie Fontaine mystery series, won in the Young Adult category. In 2022, Persephone's Mare, a novel set in a world that reveres horses, won in the Fantasy category. And this year, the last book in the Elodie series, Stormy Weather, Read more of this blog post »

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