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Yet to Know

It was a pleasure to work with Helen Donovan on Yet to Know, a novel The US Review of Books says “asks intriguing questions throughout. For example… How does one recover from…dysfunction, and how does one learn to love when they are unloved by a parent? The ending is sweet and powerful and makes the book worth reading.”

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The Long Way Around

It was an honor to work with Douglas Cavanaugh on his second novel, The Long Way Around, an inspiring story of perseverance set in the heartland of America.

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Wear Your Home Like a Scar by Nik Korpon

“The stupid things you do for love…”

Wear Your Home Like a Scar is a master class in how to write both short stories and noir. Not a word wasted, no subject too dark to tackle, and absolute unflinching acceptance of the fact that all too often there is no such thing as happily ever after. There isn’t a misfire in the bunch, but there were a few standouts for me.

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What They Might Have Become by L.J. Sellers

L.J. Sellers’s latest novel, The Black Pill, a story that brings her series characters Detective Wade Jackson and FBI Agent Jamie Dallas together, is out now. Today, L.J. shares how a frightening and heartbreaking series of events she experienced in Costa Rica inspired her to use her fiction to explore how troubled people become who they are, and to ponder what they might have become had their early lives traveled down a different path.
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Savannah Justice

It’s a pleasure working with Alan Chaput on his Vigilantes for Justice mystery series set in Savannah, Georgia, featuring social icon Patricia Falcon. The first book in the series, Savannah Sleuth, was released in December of 2017, followed by Savannah Secrets in March of 2018. Savannah Justice is the latest entry in the series.

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Black Nowhere by Reece Hirsch

Our pirate ship is sailing. I can’t tell you how all this will end, but I can promise you an adventure. — CaptainMal

When CaptainMal promises users of his dark web site called Kyte an adventure, little does he know exactly how out of control things will get. Initially intended as a way for any free trade to occur beyond the oversight of government regulation, Kyte quickly turns into the go-to place for anonymous online illegal drug selling/buying.

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The Short and Long of It by Brandon Daily

It’s a pleasure to welcome Brandon Daily back to the site. Daily burst onto the scene in 2014 with A Murder Country, which won the Silver Medal for Georgia Author of the Year—First Novel. The Valley followed, a powerful look at the dark, often insidious nature of life in the fictitious Appalachian town of Corvin Valley. Today, he’s here in conjunction with his newest release, Darkening, a collection of a dozen short stories and a novella. Not surprisingly, his guest post is an ode to the virtues of the short story.
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Shamus Dust

It was an honor to work with Janet Roger on her novel Shamus Dust, which has garnered awards and acclaim, including winning the 2019 Beverly Hills Book Awards for Crime Fiction, and which has drawn comparisons to old-school, hard-boiled detective masters such as Raymond Chandler and Philip Kerr.

Shamus Dust finds expat American private investigator Newman in bleak, postwar London during the winter of 1947, where he is drawn into a Pandora’s box of murder and corruption that runs to the highest levels of the City.