Authors, even well known ones, can find themselves at events where few people attend. I once did a book talk and signing with the famous Laurie R. King at a local bookstore. The audience was fewer than a dozen people.

It’s comforting at such moments to remember the six-degrees-of-separation theory. We might not sell a single book, but who knows where the connections might lead.

This year, I was invited to join in Sleuthing Women: 10 First-in-Series Mysteries, a boxed set of 10 full-length books featuring murder and assorted mayhem by 10 authors. The collection offers 3,000 pages of reading pleasure for lovers of amateur sleuth, capers, and cozy mysteries, with a combined total of over 1700 reviews on Amazon, averaging 4 stars! I am not nearly as well known as the other authors in this collection. I can only speculate how my name . . . read more at http://misteriopress.com