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Daisy, world traveller

03/26/2012

 
Daisy in the UK: My UK editor just sent me some pics of the Cosy Mystery display in Waterstones (a large UK chain) store in Reading (a largish UK city). Daisy's rubbing shoulders with AA Milne's only mystery, the Red House Mystery, and Agatha Christie!


Waterstones has two stores in Reading, each catering to a different kind of reader/customer, and apparently Daisy's doing very nicely in both.
 

Valley of the Shadow

03/21/2012

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I just turned in the revised manuscript of the third Cornish Mystery, Valley of the Shadow, to my editor. It's been "available for pre-order" on Amazon for a couple of weeks already!! Coming out in December, along with the paperback of the first Cornish Mystery, Manna from Hades, with new cover art.

http://caroladunn.weebly.com/cornish-mysteries.html
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Regencies reviewed

03/15/2012

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A new review of my Regencies came out last month--amazing all this time after I wrote them!

http://www.vcstar.com/news/2008/feb/10/prolific-authors-historical-novels-run-the-gamut/

They're still going strong as e-books, as well as reissues in large print and in the UK (Miss Jacobson's Journey, Lord Roworth's Reward, and Captain Ingram's Inheritance, in October).
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Home, Sweet Home

03/15/2012

 
A day late, because of snow in the Siskiyou mountains, but I'm home and trying to catch up with life!

Errands can be fun. At the Post Office, the clerk invited me to speak to her book group; among the accumulated mail were a royalty cheque (e-Regencies) and a hand-written letter from a reader in Australia, forwarded via my UK publisher and my NY publisher; and in the library, an elderly (ie older than me) lady patted me on the shoulder and said she loves my books. Came home smiling :-D
 

California signings--2 left

03/09/2012

 
I have just two California signings to go:

March 11 at noon, Huntington Beach, Mystery Ink
http://mysteryink.com/

March 11 at 3 pm, S. Pasadena, Book'Em Mysteries
http://www.bookem.com/

If you can't make it to these signings, the stores will reserve a copy and get it signed for you, and personalized if you like.

Signed copies can also be ordered from Seattle Mystery, Murder by the Book in Portland OR, Mysterious Galaxy San Diego, or Mysteries to Die For in Thousand Oaks.


 

Fun blogs

03/09/2012

 
I've just posted on one of Marshal Zeringue's blogs for writers:

http://whatarewritersreading.blogspot.com/2012/03/carola-dunn.html

As you can see, on this one he asks writers what they have been reading recently. It's a great place to pick up tips on interesting books to read.

He has a number of other blogs--on one he interviews writers about their pets. Another couple ask what is on page 69 or 99 of the most recent book. I would have done one of those but both pages of Gone West turned out to be unsuitable, for different reasons. I've done it several times in the past though. Sometimes p.99 turns out to encapsulate the whole book!

There are links to the various blogs on the page linked above.

Altogether, he's a wonderful resource for writers and readers alike.

 

EuroCrime review

03/05/2012

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Wonderful quotable review of Gone West from the EuroCrime mystery review website:

".....This very gripping story rushes on to its startling conclusion.

"This story could be pigeon-holed as a 'cosy' or a 'Country House' mystery, perhaps similar to many others written by authors such as Dorothy L Sayers, Agatha Christie or even the stories by P G Wodehouse. The author who is English born but based in Oregon, USA, has done her research (listing her substantial resources) and the story has lots of evocative touches of the English world of 1926. I found it particularly engaging. The cast of characters is very large but the author has written such detailed pen-portraits of them that I was never confused. This is her twentieth mystery story featuring Daisy Dalrymple, but my first and I enjoyed very much. Recommended."
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