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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

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California signings--2 left

03/09/2012

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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.

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Fun blogs

03/09/2012

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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.

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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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Pre Left Coast Crime interview

02/25/2012

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Here's an interview with yours truly in a California based online magazine--the Left Coast Crime mystery conference will be in Sacramento at the end of March this year. I'm going to be on two panels on Saturday.

http://kingsriverlife.com/02/25/carola-dunn-interview/

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Southern California signings

02/18/2012

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I'm going to be heading south in March, with three Daisy book signings/discussions [Gone West and the paperback of Anthem for Doomed Youth] in the Los Angeles area and one in San Diego:

March 3 at 1 pm, Thousand Oaks, Mysteries to Die For
http://www.mysteriestodiefor.com/

March 6 at 7 pm, San Diego, Mysterious Galaxy
http://www.mystgalaxy.com/

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, all the stores will reserve a copy and get it signed for you, and personalized if you like.

UK edition, basically the same but they've brightened it up. Which do you prefer?

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Happy Valentine's Stories

02/13/2012

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Almost forgot to remind Regency readers who haven't yet read My Dearest Valentine that it's a perfect-for-the-season collection of novellas available in just about all ebook formats :-)

Frost Fair: a young girl who isn't what she seems meets a young man who isn't what he seems at the fair on the frozen Thames.
A Maid at Your Window: a mad scientist meets a girl with a secret...
Wooing Mariana: a retired governess gets into trouble with the starchy ex-soldier lord of the manor when her puppy runs loose.

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Book signings:NOTE CORRECTION!!

02/08/2012

I'll be signing GONE WEST and the paperback of Anthem for Doomed Youth this weekend:

SEATTLE Mystery Bookshop Saturday Feb. 11 at noon

PORTLAND Murder by the Book Sunday Feb 12 at 2 pm.

Stop by to say hi!