The British Are Coming, Y'all!

On the Importance of Reenacting

Terry Ambrose has published a nice article about me in The Examiner, capturing the essence of why Revolutionary War reenacting has been so important to me in the development of my fictional world. Big thanks to Terry!

Camp Follower has come off its 48-hour free run. During that time, it received more than 11,000 downloads from across the world. The book also peaked at #13 for all (free) Kindle books, #1 for all (free) Kindle Mystery, and #1 for all (free) Kindle Thrillers. Huzzah for Helen Chiswell! And thank you to everyone who helped with the promotion and/or downloaded.

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A Guest Post, Camp Follower is Still Free, and I'm Riding a Meteor!

I'm a guest today on the Writing Strong Women blog. Stop by and read what inspired me to write Camp Follower.

Grab Camp Follower while it's still free in Kindle format today, 15 February, from Amazon.  This stand-alone historical mystery/thriller was nominated for the Daphne du Maurier Award (Romance Writers of America) and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award (North Carolina Historical Society). Download a copy for yourself and the sweetheart in your life now!

A deadly assignment. A land poisoned by treachery and battle. She plunged in headfirst.

Late in 1780, the publisher of a loyalist magazine in Wilmington, North Carolina offers an amazing assignment to Helen Chiswell, his society page writer. Pose as the widowed, gentlewoman sister of a British officer in the Seventeenth Light Dragoons, travel to the encampment of the British Legion in the Carolina backcountry, and write a feature on Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton. But Helen's publisher has secret reasons for sending her into danger. And because Helen, a loyalist, has ties to a family the redcoats suspect as patriot spies, she comes under suspicion of a brutal, brilliant British officer. At the bloody Battle of Cowpens, Helen must confront her past to save her life.

UPDATE 16 Feb 0500 ET:  Camp Follower has peaked at #13 in the Kindle Store and #1 in Mysteries and Thrillers! It has been downloaded more than 11,000 times in the past 48 hours. Huzzah! Thank you, everyone, and bless you!

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Two Author Interviews and Another Five-Star Review for Regulated for Murder

I'm interviewed today at two blogs: Writers Who Kill and A Writer's Life. A huge thanks to Caroline Clemmons for the exciting five-star review of Regulated for Murder!

I continue to flog work with Amazon on the issue of transferring Regulated for Murder out of the Automotive category and into the correct fiction categories, so it will become visible.

Meanwhile, the book is now available for purchase at Barnes and Noble. And it isn't listed in the Automotive category at Barnes and Noble. Huzzah!

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Recipe for a Historical Thriller

One unexpected hero + liberal doses of hungry readers + a year's worth of bypassed history. Today on Auntie M Writes, I talk about the nuts and bolts of creating Regulated for Murder, a historical thriller.  Stop by and leave a comment.

Five days until the launch of Regulated for Murder!

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The South’s Other War

When did the Civil War start—1861? That was the second Civil War. Many scholars believe that the Revolutionary War, especially the way it developed in the Southern colonies, was America's first Civil War. Monday 20 June, I'm Kaye Barley's blog guest on Meanderings and Muses, talking about "The South's Other War" and why we Southerners sometimes shoot our own credibility in the foot with our love of legends. Stop by and weigh in on your favorite folklore or outrageous legend from the South.

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Encore of “The Things We Do For Research”

Today Writers Who Kill posts my essay "The Things We Do For Research." If you missed the essay when it was originally posted on "Meanderings and Muses," please join us today, learn what crazy hoops writers of mysteries, suspense, and thrillers jump through to conduct research, and let us know what you think. Thanks for this opportunity.

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Crafting Dialogue in Historical Mystery and Suspense

Why do authors of historical mystery and suspense create dialogue the different ways they do? How do readers react to the dialogue? That's the subject of my guest essay today on Lois Winston's blog, "They Said What? Crafting Dialogue in Historical Mystery and Suspense." Be sure to stop by and leave a comment. Lois will have a drawing, and I'll give away a copy of Camp Follower to one of the visitors who posts a comment.

Special thanks to the readers on LibraryThing who responded to my discussion topic over the summer and gave me input for this article.

Encore of "Of Fairy Tales and Dragons"

Today author K.D. Easley posts my essay "Of Fairy Tales and Dragons" on her blog. If you missed the essay when it was originally posted on "Meanderings and Muses," please join me today, learn what crime fiction and fairy tales have in common, and let us know what you think. Thanks for this opportunity, K.D.

Interview in the Nashville Examiner for Killer Nashville

With the approach of the Killer Nashville conference, the Nashville Examiner graciously interviewed me about the Revolutionary War in the South and the craft of writing.

Currently they're experiencing technical difficulties with the links in the interview -- and I'm credited with writing Paper Moon instead of Paper Woman :-). I hope they can correct the errors soon.

In the meantime, facts in the rest of the interview appear to be correct, so enjoy!

In the Moment

Foreshadowing with an iron fist isn't the way to tighten suspense. Please join me in the discussion today at Buried Under Books, Lelia Taylor's blog. What are some excellent uses of foreshadowing that you've seen?