L.A. Starks > Recent Status Updates

Garland, TX Central Library
625 Austin St.

First-ever Curiosity Fest at Garland Library
All about writing and reading!

Please stop by if you're in the area --I'll be there 1-3 PM with the Lynn Dayton thrillers

My fall 2025 newsletter has just been published and is available by (free) subscription or online at my website. Since my last newsletter I've read 26 books and have many recommendations. https://lastarksbooks.com/2025/09/10/...

For fun entertainment: I've added updated short, punchy book trailer videos for all FOUR Lynn Dayton thrillers. You can see them at my GR profile.

https://www.goodreads.com/videos/list...

New video trailer (1 min) for Winner's Curse just dropped! You can see it here. https://youtu.be/K7oBmA7hpxs?si=4CzKJ...

90% discount on Kindle edition of Winner's Curse, A Lynn Dayton Thriller, from $9.98 US to $0.99 US for a few days only. Kindle Countdown deal.

https://www.amazon.com/Winners-Curse-...

0.99 Kindle Countdown deal today in US for Winner's Curse: A Lynn Dayton thriller! https://itswritenow.com/

Cool new Amazon A+ content now for e-book edition of The Second Law: Lynn Dayton Thriller #3 https://www.amazon.com/Second-Law-Lyn...

Thx to all who came to my signing yesterday at BN Lincoln Park! AND for thriller readers and movie lovers, here's a new, very short (<1 minute) book trailer on YouTube for The Second Law: Lynn Dayton Thriller #3. https://youtu.be/z3e038zKZ34?si=_5_SG...

North TX area readers: You're invited to Barnes & Noble, 7700 W NW Highway, Suite 300 in Dallas on Saturday, June 28 between noon and 3 PM. I'll be signing copies of Winner's Curse: A Lynn Dayton Thriller. Come by and let's talk books and everything book-related.
https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/sto...

Prescient! Even I have been surprised by the relevance of the detail in Winner's Curse: A Lynn Dayton Thriller (think Mediterranean gas pipelines) to the current Middle East situation. Read this thriller to find out one of the secrets of the eastern Med. https://lastarksbooks.com/books/winne...

An underrecognized theme in STRIKE PRICE, Lynn Dayton Thriller #2, is the important economic engine (approx $3.5 billion annual budget) that is the Cherokee Nation. Here's a great video from the Nation on exactly that subject. And a link to the Strike Price book page from my website. https://lastarksbooks.com/books/strik... https://www.youtube.com/live/2LYiIn7Q...

The Second Law: Lynn Dayton Thriller #3 is now available as an inexpensive Audible (Virtual Voice) audiobook. Check out the chapters read in the Australian accent (and all the other chapters.) https://www.amazon.com/Second-Law-Lyn...

Read or listen to the book that was both too prescient and with an antagonist too true for Hollywood. The Second Law: Lynn Dayton Thriller #3. Just now published in audiobook (Virtual Voice), joining print and e-book editions from Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Second-Law-Day...

Also available in print from Barnes & Noble (Firewheel!) or your favorite independent bookstore.

Briefly free: all four Amazon Kindle stand-alone short stories. Normally $0.99 each. Get your copy of "Incurable," "A Time for Eating Wild Onions," "Josh Rosen and Bubbe," and "Robert and Therese Guillard." Ends soon.
All at the link:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/L.%20A....

Check out the new 1-minute book trailer for STRIKE PRICE, Lynn Dayton Thriller #2, on YouTube!
https://youtu.be/umluWYE87VU?si=lhHP7...

Or check out both on my website.
https://lastarksbooks.com/

Thriller e-book giveaway! Enter for a chance to win an e-reader and e-book. https://www.bargainbooksy.com/thrille...

fun new video book trailer for 13 Days: The Pythagoras Conspiracy, first in the Lynn Dayton thriller series.
https://youtu.be/csoMtOa3jXo?feature=...

My semi-annual newsletter reprises Winner's Curse reviews and highlights several of the books I read in the last six months and now recommend. Do take a look.

https://lastarksbooks.com/2025/03/01/...

North Texans: Join me tomorrow for a book signing at Barnes & Noble in Allen, TX, Watters Creek Village, 2 PM. 988 Village Green Drive 77013. Winner's Curse plus the first three Lynn Dayton books!

Honored to be interviewed by Steve Cuden for StoryBeat about the writing process. You can find a link and a teaser here:
https://www.storybeat.net/

And Great Day SA host Roma was so welcoming for the Book Club segment on Monday, February 17. We talked about Winner's Curse and everything related.

https://youtu.be/ktqyhfitIjM