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See Upcoming Signing Schedules
and Author News below!

Our congratulations to RMMWA member,
Sandi Ault, whose WILD INDIGO was named the
winner of the Simon & Schuster/Mary Higgins Clark Award in New York City in May.

New Trailers

The White Gates by Bonnie Ramthun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ogT-bcHgL0

The Undead Kama Sutra by Mario Acevedo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTFoT4J2G68

Author Signings

Colleen Collins will be the guest blogger on Poe's Deadly Daughters, Saturday, May 31, discussing the basics of finding missing persons ("Missing Persons 101"). One of the book-loving sleuths who blogs with questions will be eligible to win an "undercover booksafe." http://www.poesdeadlydaughters.blogspot.com/.

Robert Spiller will be making a tour of the South promoting his newest book, A CALCULATED DEMISE. If you're anywhere near, please stop in:
Wed., June 4, Waldenbooks, Biloxi Mississippi - 5:00PM
Friday, June 6, Barnes&Noble, Spanish Fort, Alabama - 2:00 Saturday, June 7, Barnes&Noble, Gulfport, Mississippi - 2:00 Sunday, June 8, Barnes&Noble, Pensecoloa, Florida - 2:00 Saturday, June 14, Barnes&Noble, Mobile, Alabama, 3250
      Airport - 2:00

Barbara Graham will be signing MURDER BY SERPENTS: The Mystery Quilt:
Friday, June 6 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Kalico Kat
      Quilt Shop, Casper Wyoming
Friday, June 13 from 5 PM to 7 PM at Barnes & Noble
      Centerra, Loveland Colorado.

New Releases

Jan/Feb 2008	“The Bondstone” by R.T. Lawton
December 2007	"Miracle on Bannock Street" by Colleen Collins
November 2007	"Shallow Grave" by Lori G. Armstrong
November 2007	“Of Wax and Watermarks” by R.T. Lawton “Cliff’s Folly” by Douglas Grant Johnson "Homestead" by Rex Burns (see blurb below)
November 2007	“Murder by Serpents: The Mystery Quilt” by Barbara Graham (see blurb below)
October 2007	“Lye in Wait: A Homecrafting Mystery” by Cricket McRae

 

RMMWA New Releases

"Click, Click, Click," by R.T. Lawton, AHMM January/February 2008 issue. To blend in with the Christmas background, Beaumont and Yarnell dress up in Santa suits in order to burglarize a dope dealer's house. Unfamiliarity with night vision goggles leads to problems, and they quickly realize the clicking noise they hear is not reindeer hooves on the rooftop.

“Of Wax and Watermarks,” AHMM November 2007 issue by R. T. Lawton, is the second story in the 1660’s Paris Underworld series. The Chevalier, fallen from the social world, is forced to commit a burglary, but first he needs a way to obtain a key to the right door. Our young orphan pickpocket begrudgingly decides to help him. Then the Chevalier must solve a weighty problem for the ruler of the Paris underworld. In doing so, he turns the deadly situation to his own advantage.

“Cliff’s Folly,” AHMM November 2007 issue by Douglas Grant Johnson is the third in a series featuring a depression-era auto mechanic trying to survive in a small town. Cliff Mills seems to have more trouble fixing cars than in finding out what happened to a customer who fails to retrieve a tire he is asked to repair. With plenty of time on his hands between customers, he is in a unique position to connect a series of clues that eventually lead, over his wife’s objections, to a dangerous confrontation .

MURDER BY SERPENTS: The Mystery Quilt
by Barbara Graham
Five Star, a part of Cengage Learning (November 14, 2007) ISBN13: 978-1-59414-590-2
     Murder arrives in the Smoky Mountains. A snake-handling preacher is killed with his own snakes. Sheriff Tony Abernathy's investigation involves reclusive, criminal and just peculiar residents. His wife Theo gathers gossip at her quilt shop and designs a mystery quilt (pattern included). Problems multiply. Every time the case seems sewn up, it comes unstitched. In addition to writing mysteries,
     Barbara is an award winning quilter. She invites you to visit her website

Rex Burns announces that his series of fables, "The Frogs of Sawhill Ponds," is available (since October) on Audible.com.

Mario Acevedo announces: the sale of his first three books to both the Science Fiction Book Club and the QPB (Quality Paperback Club). And, in an unusual move, the QPB will actually be hardcover, following the SFBC. He was also a finalist for a Colorado Book Award. Congratulations, Mario!

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