Sarah Glenn and I have contracted with Scott Ellis Reads to produce our first audiobook. We're starting with Murder on the Mullet Express, the first book in our Three Snowbirds series. The projected date of release is in January 2025, almost a hundred years after the story's setting. This will fulfill a dream we've had since we started. 

I will be at the Venice Book Fair next weekend, March 23rd. It's been a few years, but I'll be there with my books and Paradise is Deadly: Gripping Tales from Florida's Gulf Coast. This is the anthology my press published with the Florida Gulf Coast Sisters in Crime. I also have the pleasure of being this year's chapter president.
If you come for the Writers' Festival on the 22nd, other members of the chapter will be presenting Paths to Publishing Your Crime Novel. I recommend it.

Sarah and I participated in our first in-person event for 2022: a panel on mysteries hosted by the Barbara Ponce Library in Pinellas Park. After the panel, we showed off our books to potential new readers. I had books available from both the Nessa Donnelly series and the Three Snowbirds series, plus some anthologies that included my short stories.
​It was good to see people again.

The third book in the Three Snowbirds series will be Ybor City Blues. When a beautiful young singer is murdered, Cornelia Pettijohn must solve the crime... due to a "call to adventure" she can't refuse. We're working on it now, but here's a sneak peek at the cover.

The Derby Rotten Scoundrels (a Kentucky-based chapter of Sisters in Crime) have released a new anthology of mysteries and feature articles based on Kentucky's signature liquor: bourbon. I've contributed a new Nessa Donnelly short story to this collection, and it also includes the first Three Snowbirds story that Sarah Glenn and I wrote. 
Mystery and Horror, LLC is currently running a giveaway for the anthology. You have until July 21, 2020 to enter the drawing for a free print copy of Mystery with a Splash of Bourbon. Pop over and register your entry today!

Sarah and I are pleased to announce that we're on blog tour this month. We've partnered with Lori Caswell and have a number of guest spots and reviews that will be posted over the next couple of weeks. Please visit the sites and join in the fun. Be sure to scroll down at our promo page at Escapes with Dollycas to discover all the ways you can submit multiple entries for the book giveaway.

We're really pleased with the reviews of our new novel, Murder at the Million Dollar Pier. Christine Gentes of Map Your Mystery described it as "A riotous adventure featuring three gutsy characters." Doward Wilson of Kings River Life said, "This was a delightful and fun read." One of the early Amazon reviews said that "the action, and the glam, comes at a fast, jazzy clip."
​If you've read the novel, please share your opinion with us. If you haven't read it, the novel is free on Kindle Unlimited. We'd appreciate your feedback!

Coming in February 2020: learn more about Cornelia, Teddy, Uncle Percival, and their authors with Great Escapes!

If you enjoyed Murder on the Mullet Express, you will be pleased to learn that the sequel,  Murder at the Million Dollar Pier, will be coming out this September. Our intrepid snowbirds from the first novel, Cornelia Pettijohn, Teddy Lawless, and Uncle Percival, arrive in Saint Petersburg, Florida, and take lodgings in the then-new Vinoy Hotel. Uncle Percival selected the hotel for its excellent view of the construction on the Million Dollar Pier, but when Teddy Lawless sees her ex-fiance in the dining room, trouble follows. 
Like the first novel, this one will be published by Mystery and Horror, LLC.