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The narrow canals of Omo’s hometown were higher than expected for this time of year. From her ferry, she watched two beautiful black gondolas row by and smiled to herself at the enthralled tourists struggling to balance themselves against the waves while taking their frenzied photos. Pigeons crowned the many antiquated homes and edifices that dotted each cluster of land her ferry went by, scattering in mellifluous beauty whenever an aircraft passed overhead.

She emptied her mind with a hard...

by Mellissa Thomas

Two years after the Tenderfoot Series entered the world on the Kindle and five years after it was completed, Episode 2, In the Rough, is on Kindle’s horizon, releasing Tuesday, March 31, 2015, and here’s its cover.

Drum roll, please…

As the cover teases, expect some globetrotting. (No espionage tale works without that, right?)

Episode 1, Abstracted, plunged you into International Supremacy Bureau (ISB) Agent Maia Highland’s perilous world right from Chapter 1 with an att...

The soft-spoken, Franco-Italian accented International Supremacy Bureau lead agent Evan Knightley speaks on loyalty, being a ginger, and his two new charges, Agents Maia Highland and Roy Chambers.

Interview by Mellissa Thomas

1) So, in a few words, how would you describe yourself?

Old enough to make good decisions, young enough to take risks.

2) Let’s go there. You’re among the youngest of ISB’s lead agents. How do you handle the rigors of managing three hundred agents?

By doing what I ju...

Agent Maia Highland may be in the wrong line of work.

“If there’s nothing else you learn about me, it’s that I don’t do discretion. The secrets and the whispers here and there and whatever, I don’t do it. I’m just letting you know that straight up.” – Agent Maia Highland

Flickr photo by Skelekitten. The Maia Highland character and quote are property of Mellissa Thomas, (c) 2009-2013. All Rights Reserved.

Agent Maia Highland may be in the wrong line of work.

“If there’s nothing else you learn about me, it’s that I don’t do discretion. The secrets and the whispers here and there and whatever, I don’t do it. I’m just letting you know that straight up.” – Agent Maia Highland

Flickr photo by Skelekitten. The Maia Highland character and quote are property of Mellissa Thomas, (c) 2009-2013. All Rights Reserved.

Carlos Fuentes hit the nail on the head:

“Writing is a struggle against silence.”

Wallpaper courtesy of WinePress Publishing.

Carlos Fuentes hit the nail on the head:

“Writing is a struggle against silence.”

Wallpaper courtesy of WinePress Publishing.

by Agent Maia Highland

Here’s the very first Tenderfoot poem drop we received.

A high-priority suspect left this one behind at the ISB Retention Compound in Vicenza, Italy as he gave us the slip.

(And probably a middle finger, too.)

You can find all the details of the jailbreak in Abstracted.

In the meantime, here’s a question for you: do you believe in heaven and hell? And what kind of message do you think a fugitive’s trying to send with a poem like this?

Do shatter Darkness w...

by Agent Maia Highland

Here’s the very first Tenderfoot poem drop we received.

A high-priority suspect left this one behind at the ISB Retention Compound in Vicenza, Italy as he gave us the slip.

(And probably a middle finger, too.)

You can find all the details of the jailbreak in Abstracted.

In the meantime, here’s a question for you: do you believe in heaven and hell? And what kind of message do you think a fugitive’s trying to send with a poem like this?

Do shatter Darkness with mighty...

What do you get when you mix two serial killers with serious psychological kinks, an eclectic mix of art and art history, globetrotting, Scandinavian journalism and policing, and a desperate NYPD detective?

You get The Postcard Killers, a fast-paced joint venture between Alex Cross creator James Patterson and Swedish bestselling author Liza Marklund.

The killers earn the titular moniker from their ritual of sending a postcard of their next target city to a journalist or reporter in that city wi...