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Texas then and now
This week in the Hill Country The Texas Book Festival is this weekend, Oct. 17-18, on the Capitol Grounds in Austin. 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Saturday, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Sunday. I will be there along with...
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Texas Book Festival Saturday – Sunday, October 17-18, 2015 Texas Capitol Grounds, Austin, Texas Here again I’ll be signing my books, wearing my Francis Bacon outfit on Saturday and my comfy working...
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Indie B.R.A.G. blog hop
Join Indie B.R.A.G. (Book Readers Appreciation Group) for a month-long festival of blogs! Authors who have won the coveted B.R.A.G. medallion, including yours truly, will post about their holiday...
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Bacon hits the bricks!
The Francis Bacon Mystery Series is now available in the real world at Austin’s two favorite bookstores, BookPeople and Half Price Books. That means you can buy them in person for cash money, in...
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Bacon’s essays: Of Goodness
Bacon doesn’t mince words when it comes to the importance of goodness, by which he means something like philanthropy: working toward the good of humanity. “Without it,” he writes, “man is a busy,...
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Murder and Mayhem
Four great books for only $0.99! Murder & Mayhem: Four Historical Mysteries I’m proud to be a part of this stellar collection. I’ve read all of the other three books and can highly recommend them....
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Moriarty was framed!
Moriarty by Sidney Paget I launched a new mystery series on Wednesday (June 1) with Moriarty Meets His Match. That’s the Professor James Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes universe invented by Sir...
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Summer sale season begins
In honor of the end of the school year and the Key West Mystery Fest, I’m giving folks a chance to try two of my series for FREE. Black & White & Dead All Over is free Friday & Saturday,...
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Free Moriarty!
Moriarty was framed — learn the truth! Read all about it for FREE, Amazon only,Aug. 27-28. “Enthusiastically recommended.” Historical Novel Society reviews. Professor James Moriarty has one desire...
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Historical Novel Society meeting, Oxford
I’m off to the meeting of the Historical Novel Society in beautiful Oxford this weekend. (That’s England, y’all; not Mississippi.) This trip is part of my ongoing celebration of my 60th birthday; plus,...
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Indie Author Day
Tomorrow, all across the land, libraries will be celebrating independent authors. It’s a natural collaboration, although harder to make the connection than you might think. It’s the usual problem of...
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Launch!! Moriarty Takes His Medicine
My latest book hit the virtual shelves last week. This is the second book in the Professor & Mrs. Moriarty Mystery series, Moriarty Takes His Medicine. This series will be Amazon-only until the...
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Read an Ebook Week
Smashwords is having a festival of freebies and deep discounts this week, from March 5 to March 11. Many books will be on sale, including the boxed set of my first three Francis Bacon mysteries....
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Let’s pflee to the Pflugerville Book Pfestival!
Pflugerville Book Pfestival Saturday, April 29, 1:00 – 5:30 Pflugerville Public Library This is going to be an amazing event, y’all! With wildflowers en route. 19 authors, including best-sellers in...
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Launch! Publish and Perish
Please welcome the fourth book in the Francis Bacon mystery series, Publish and Perish. This one is the answer to my irrational obsession with the Marprelate Controversy, a conflict of great concern...
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It’s shorts month!
July, 2017 is the first annual Short Story Writing Month, an exciting new event devised by yours truly, with the full collaboration of the Austin-based Indie Author Society. It’s a short story writing...
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Launch! Moriarty Brings Down the House
Moriarty Brings Down the House I’m happy to announce the publication of the third book in the Professor & Mrs. Moriarty mystery series, Moriarty Brings Down the House. This one’s set in London in...
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Bacon’s essays: Of Fortune
Uh-oh! I can see at a glance that this essay, Of Fortune, is loaded with Latin. Sigh. What would we do without our good friend Richard Whateley’s fine translations and commentaries? Destiny is in your...
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Medieval to Modern: Eight great historical mystery shorts
Medieval to Modern: An Anthology of Historical Mystery Stories is available now at all your favorite online bookstores. What will you find in this volume? Three novellas and five short stories, ranging...
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Launch: Let Slip the Dogs
The 5th book in the Francis Bacon series is out today, August 15th. It should be available almost everywhere that books are sold. It won’t be on the shelf at your local bookstore, but you can ask them...
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