News and Views

Since my move to a new town in a new state last September, my writing schedule has pretty much gone to hell. Luckily I am getting my stride back, and I've been working on Book 31 of the Lacey Fitzpatrick and Sam Firecloud Mystery Series, Twilight Walk. Here's a preview and the cover:

Paranormal investigators Lacey Fitzpatrick and Sam Firecloud have their lives turned upside down by a sudden medical emergency that sidelines Lacey for the foreseeable future. At the same time, however, the LAPD is stymied by what appears to be a serial murderer, and not just the ordinary garden variety. This one leaves teeth marks on the victims’ necks. Is a vampire loose in LA? Sam intends to find out, and must plunge alone into the dark underground of bloodlust culture. Can he track down the evidence by himself, and can recalcitrant Lacey follow doctor’s orders long enough to let her body heal?

I'm not quite done with this one yet, but will be soon, and I think you'll enjoy the ride.

Meanwhile my cover designer has been redoing more of the covers of the series, and they are looking fabulous, if I say so myself. Here's a sample:

I think they look pretty nifty, don't you? It'll take a while to get them all redone, but it'll happen.

And finally, one more announcement. There's a beta program that's now allowing us to publish hardback books, and I was quick to jump on that and try it out. I've released my non-fiction, the biography of my aunt who was a prisoner-of-war, as a hardback. Now that book is available as an ebook, a paperback, a hardback and an audio book. Whew! I think we've got everyone covered there, whatever your choice of format might be.

Meanwhile, I hope everyone is staying safe and enjoying some of the newfound freedom we're seeing as we're getting this virus under control. It's been a long haul, but we're definitely seeing some progress. Together, we can beat this. 

New Release: Suicide Walk

Spring has spring. and Sam and Lacey are on another difficult case in Suicide Walk. This one has a double whammy to it, a stubborn case coinciding with stubborn family issues that the pair are trying to solve.

Raising teenagers is tough. Medium Sam Firecloud and his partner, Lacey Fitzpatrick, have that brought home to them in spades when Sam’s sixteen-year-old son, Daniel, calls a sudden family meeting to make an unexpected, and unwelcome, announcement. Not only are Sam and Lacey struggling to deal with the development, they’re doing it in different ways, adding to the tension. At the same time, they are hired to investigate the death of a fifteen-year-old girl who chose to tragically end what was a privileged but tragic life.  When Sam’s usual methods for dealing with a tethered soul go stunningly wrong, he and Lacey are left to wonder if they can ultimately help either of the two teens—living and dead—to find peace.

This is Book #30 of the popular series, and to celebrate this milestone, I am reducing the price of ALL ebooks in the series to just 99 cents each. If you've been waiting for a reason to grab up an armload of Sam and Lacey, or if you've read them through Kindle Unlimited only and want to own them so you can re-read them anytime you want, now is your chance. The books will be on sale through March 31, 2021, so get 'em while they're hot... eh, cold. Follow the paranormal pair on all their adventures, from California to New York, from the US to Ireland to Israel. 

And as always, I hope everyone is staying safe. We're making it through the tough challenges we're facing all around the globe. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel!

See the full series here.

New Release--Finally!

I'll bet some of you thought I'd fallen off the planet. Over the past three or four years, I've been releasing a new book about every 6 to 8 weeks, and now all of a sudden I dropped out of sight for months. Well, I've been busy--moving. This summer in AZ was too brutally hot, so my husband and I moved to Kanab, Utah. Kanab sits at 5000 feet and is easily 10 to even 20 degrees cooler than where we were. It's a charming little town set smack amid red rock canyons, and is close to Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Lots of amazing places for us to explore.

But during all that time of packing, moving, and unpacking, I left Sam and Lacey working frantically to solve serial murders in the tony community of Huntington Beach, California. Luckily the pair of paranormal investigators were up to the challenge of not only pursuing the murderer, but staying on track even as I was busy elsewhere. Now, finally, I am happy to announce the release of Book 29, Execution Walk. Here's the scoop:

On a lazy morning, paranormal investigators Sam Firecloud and Lacey Fitzpatrick take some rare time off and head for the beach—Huntington Beach, to be exact. What they don’t expect is to wander onto the scene of a brutal murder committed the night before. When Sam’s initial impressions are surreptitiously recorded by TV cameras at the same time that a local psychic named Anubis makes startling claims about the murder, news journalists smell a ratings bonanza—the battle of the psychics. All Sam and Lacey want to do is stop the killer from killing again, which turns out to be more complex than they’d imagined—especially with the annoying distraction of being partnered with Anubis.

Sound interesting? I think so. It's Sam and Lacey doing what they do best. To celebrate the new release, the ebook of Execution Walk is only 99 cents through November 1, 2020. If you still haven't been introduced to the ghostbusting pair, Ghost Walk, Book 1, is always only 99 cents. And, I'm happy to report, I've started working on Book #30.

In the meantime, my wonderful narrators have been busy, as well. The first 10 books in the Lacey Fitzpatrick and Sam Firecloud Mystery Series are now on audio, with 11 soon to come. In addition, both books of the No Time for Travis time-travel series are now on audio. You can see all my audio books here. If any of my audio books look tantalizing to you, let me know. I have free promo codes to give away, and you can download and listen to any (or all) of those books for free! Just shoot me an email and let me know what books you'd like to have and I will send you the codes. I have codes for both US and UK available.

I hope you all have a safe and scary-fun Halloween. What could be better for Halloween than ghosts and more ghosts? After all, it is the day when the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. And when those ghosts become troublesome, or in need of redemption, who you gonna call? Why, Sam and Lacey, of course! 

Happy Halloween!