July Events Schedule at Tale Spinner

Be sure to check out my July events in the left sidebar of Tale Spinner. Here's a quick look:

7/2 N. N. Light Christmas in July: Mason’s Mark: https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/bookpromos/categories/christmas-in-july-fete

7/17-18 Janet Walters the Eclectic Writer: a two day interview and discussion of 3 of my books: https://wwweclecticwriter.blogspot.com/

7/25 GUEST Mona Sedrak & her new release Gravity

7/30 N. N. Light Christmas in July: Flotsam & Jetsam: https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/bookpromos/categories/christmas-in-july-fete

The Mint Invasion—out of chaos comes jelly—I’m at Alicia Dean’s today

I’m on Alicia Dean’s wonderful website talking about a hobby of mine—and by extension, a hobby of my heroine Lacey Delahaye in Whirlwind Romance.  We’re both jelly makers—and both unapologetic romantics. Come for a story and a recipe for Cocoplum jelly!

Cocoplum

https://aliciadean.com/2020/01/28/hobbycareerpassion-the-mint-invasion-out-of-chaos-comes-jellyand-romance-by-m-s-spencer/

Changes in Latitude brings a change in Attitude--at Viviana MacKade's Today

A New Year’s resolution that went terribly right. Read all about it at Viviana MacKade’s wonderful blog. I’m talking about how a change in latitude breeds a change in attitude (with thanks to Jimmy Buffett). I also thoughtfully provided an excerpt from my mystery romance Flotsam and Jetsam: the Amelia Island Affair.

Read it here: https://viviana-mackade.blog/?p=17402

Thrills, Chills & Flying Machines—Spencer at Fearless Friday

Come join me for a little autobiographical tour and a taste of my romantic suspense Lapses of Memory. 

Follow my adventures from one of the earliest commercial transatlantic flights to the steps of the Golestan Palace in Iran. Check it out here:

https://brendawhiteside.blogspot.com/2019/06/thrills-chills-flying-machines-by-ms.html

Raspberries & Revelations-A new excerpt from Spencer’s Mason’s Mark at Beverley Bateman

Do drop by Beverley Bateman’s wonderful site for a taste of my mystery romance the Mason’s Mark: Love & Death in the Tower. I share a new excerpt exhibiting the powers of observation that rise when two sharp little old ladies get together.

The Mason’s Mark: Love and Death in the Tower

In both the best and worst first day at work ever, docent Claire Wilding meets the man of her dreams, but her carefully rehearsed guided tour of the George Washington National Masonic Memorial collapses when she discovers a body and is drawn into a dark world of black ops and Italian renegade masons, of secret cabals and hidden treasure.

Also cloaked in mystery is handsome Gideon Bliss, a George Washington expert who haunts the Memorial, his manner evasive. What is his secret? Claire fears she'll fall in love with him only to learn he's a thief or even a murderer. Juggling two eccentric mothers, an inquisitive sister, and an increasingly smitten detective, Claire must find answers to a complex web of intrigue, including who to trust and who to love.

Here’s the link:

https://beverleybateman.blogspot.com/2019/05/ms-spencer-and-her-latest-book.html

For the Love of a Spy Goes LIVE Today

For the Love of a Spy: the Scrivener and the Handyman GOES LIVE today! December 27 my new romantic suspense is released by I Heart Publishing.  Read about it at Sharon Buchbinder’s New Release Blast:

https://sharonbuchbinder.blogspot.com/2018/12/new-release-for-love-of-spy-scrivener.html 

When Maris Graystone, political writer, and Michael Kinder, CIA troubleshooter, meet, sparks fly. Their love affair intensifies against the backdrop of the dramatic world events of 1991. Michael appears and disappears at unpredictable moments, leaving Maris limp and lovelorn. Looking for safe harbor for her emotions and her body, she accepts the advances of a dashing French diplomat.

Torn between the luxury and comfort of Émile and his chateau, and the romance of international intrigue with Michael, who will she choose?

Moonlight & Mystery Blog: Pogo My Favorite Fictional Hero

Please drop by Moonlight and Mystery today, and click on Moonlight Muse Blogs to find my paean to Pogo the Possum. M&M's theme this month is our favorite fictional hero, and I chose Pogo--for fairly obscure reasons which I try to explain in the blog. Anyway, it's fun!

http://www.moonlightandmystery.com/moonlight-muse-blog/pogo-my-hero-and-my-favorite-possum/

Mary Stewart & Me! Blogging at Moonlight & Mystery

Drop by the beautiful site Moonlight and Mystery, where I'm talking about one of my favorite childhood authors, Mary Stewart.

Mary Stewart

http://www.moonlightandmystery.com/moonlight-author-mystic-mysteries-blog/english-inspiration-mary-stewart-me/

My Amazon Trip--at Kay Phoenix's today

Please join me at Kay Phoenix’s lovely blog today. I’m talking about one of my favorite trips (and the subject of my current work-in-progress)—to the Amazon! As an added treat, read a new excerpt from my newest release The Pit and the Passion: Murder at the Ghost Hotel.

Find them both here:  https://kayphoenix.blogspot.com/2018/05/author-m-s-spencer.html

Embarrassing Moments and How To Avoid Them

Today at Romance Books 4 Us I’ll be discussing how to use your personal memories wisely and effectively in your prose—without getting in major

trouble with a friend or relative. I even confess one of my most embarrassing moments! Check it out here:
http://www.romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/2013/10/guest-blog-ms-spencer-relax-memories.html

Notes from a writer's weird world

Does this ever happen to other writers? I'm working on my new work-in-progress set on Chincoteague, and my heroine decided to call herself Addison Steele. So, in the spirit of the thing, I began to name everyone else after 18th-century British writers. Thus the hero is Hugh Radcliffe, others are Smollett, Swift--well you get the picture. At that point I had to come up with a name for the hero's brother. I wanted the hero to have a tattoo signifying
brotherly love, which brought me to Elton John's Daniel My Brother. Yay--perfect, until I realized what the brother's name would be....