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Cherry Cake and A Cadaver
About Writing by Susan BolesAuthors come to write books by a lot of different paths. I knew I wanted to be a writer all the way back in junior high school. I was in a secret club with two friends who loved to read and liked writing, too. We wrote little stories, that, now, would be called flash fiction. But back then, knowing nothing about word count and the publishing world, we thought we were the bees knees. We didn't show the stories to anyone except each other. Because, you see, we were nerdy, shy girls. The ones you see in every class in every school with secret dreams they don't share with anyone.I still have some of those stories preserved in an old blue cloth, three ring binder. I'm not sure how they survived all this time, but they are a prize possession.So, fast forward several years to making college decisions. My parents didn't think writing a was a good career choice, and since they were paying, I chose to get my degree in a double major of Business Administration and Marketing. With a triple minor in microeconomics, art history, and literature. Yep. Over achiever here. LOL.
So, fast forward a LOT more years and the writing bug is biting me pretty hard. So I dive into the whole thing and discover it's a pretty hard road to walk. But I kept at it and got two book published by small independent presses. But then, life happened, like it does, and I stepped away just as I was bulding a little momentum. Fast forward several more years, and I knew that if I didn't get back into writing, I would always regret it. So, here I am with my cozy mystery series about some crazy southern people in a fictional town in North Mississippi. And you know what? Those girls are still my friends and they're cheering me on with a lot of enthusiasm.
By Susan Boles
Lily Gayle Lambert, Book 2
Publisher: Argent Ocean Publishing
Release Date: March 31,
2017
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Length: 106 Pages
ISBN: 9780997909326
ASIN: B06XK2Q44N
About the book:
Lily Gayle
and the gang set out to find a killer after local baker Luxen Natolovich is
found dead hours before the grand opening weekend at the new Bed and Breakfast
in town, Midnight Dragonfly. As Lily Gayle deciphers the clues around Luxen’s
death she uncovers a conspiracy of lies and half truths that could very well be
tied to a refugee camp in Mississippi during World War II. The deeper Lily
Gayle digs, the deeper the conspiracy runs, and the closer she comes to being
the killer’s next victim.
About the Author:
Susan calls
McNairy County, TN her home ground even though she has moved away. It was here,
at Bethel Springs Junior High School that she began her writing career with two
friends. They formed their own little writers group that was so secret they
were the only ones who knew it existed. She still has some of the stories they
wrote carefully preserved in a loose leaf binder and tucked away for safety.
She has
worked in retail management, briefly for the Census Bureau and for many years
in the investment/insurance industry in the regulatory compliance arena. All of
which are left brain activities. So she exercises her right brain activity with
reading and writing…just to keep both sides even.
Reading has
been a passion since she was very young. As a toddler, her mother read to her
from her ‘baby books’ and her Mother tells a story about her holding one of
them upside down and ‘reading’ by repeating the story verbatim from memory.
Death of a
Wolfman is the first in the Lily Gayle Lambert mystery series. Her previously
published romantic suspense novel, Fated Love, is a contemporary paranormal
romantic suspense (with a twist of paranormal) set in Memphis, TN. Her
first novel, Kate’s Pride, is a historical women’s fiction set in West
Tennessee in the aftermath of the Civil War. The novel is loosely based on her
own Great Grandmother and published under the pen name Renee Russell.
Life got in
the way of writing for many years but now she’s come back to her early love.
Author Links:
Webpage – www.susanbolesauthor.com
Twitter – @SusanBAuthor
Sounds like a great cozy.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Rita!
DeleteI really enjoyed the description of the book and I love the cover. Looking forward to reading.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Dianne!
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