What do you do when Hollywood takes over your tiny Maine village to make a movie? My latest Maine cozy mystery Mrs. Spinney’s Secret is featured at N. N. Light’s Mystery & Suspense Bookish Event today.
Our hero
eats a bad lobster—was it poison or oversight?
Find it
here: https://www.
Enter to win
a gift card! Here's the rafflecopter link:
https://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/92db7750281
Fun for one and all—LASR is celebrating its 16th anniversary with books of all kinds and loads of prizes. Today my delightful mystery Mrs. Spinney’s Secret is spotlighted. Read all about it, answer a question and enter to win!
How would you feel if Hollywood came to your little village in Maine to make a movie…and corpses began to show up?
Here's the link:
What do you do when
Hollywood takes over your tiny Maine village to make a movie?
Five Stars for Mrs. Spinney's Secret
Casi McLean enjoyed Mrs. Spinney's Secret so much she gave it 5 stars! Here's a quote:
"Begin with well developed characters who live in a quaint coastal town in Maine, throw in an invasion of rich Hollywood actors and producers, a dash of quirky humor, some ghostly mishaps, a kiss of romance, some strange attacks, and a unique mystery storyline…stir gently and––voila––a wonderful book chocked full of entertaining hours of reading pleasure."
You can read the full review at these links:
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/reviews/3121028212
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5075432142
Amazon (as Kindred Spirit) :
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3N683AIJBN1KA/ref=cm_cr_othr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B08P886V99
Come one come all to the 15th annual Long and
Short Reviews Birthday Bash. Today they are featuring Mrs. Spinney’s Secret.
Lights! Camera! Action! Hollywood comes to Amity Landing,
trailing corpses.
Come on by for a taste of Maine mystery and romance and a chance to win one of many Amazon/Barnes and Noble gift cards!
Do drop by Uvi Pozansky’s lovely blog where she interviews me about Mrs. Spinney’s Secret. I write about the inspiration for the book and provide a funny excerpt. Enjoy!
My Maine Mysteries
If you
enjoy mysterious strangers, quirky romance, small town intrigue, more than one
murder, and hidden treasure, you’ll love The Penhallow Train Incident. Set in
Maine, it nonetheless manages to import Middle Eastern archaeologists, who set
the hero and heroine on a search not just for the murderer, but for the tomb of
the Queen of Sheba.
What do you do when Hollywood wants to make a movie in your
tiny Maine village? Cassidy Beauvoir, chairman of the board of overseers of
Amity Landing, is ready to throw the bums out until she meets Jasper MacEwan,
the director of American Waterloo: the Rout of the Penobscot Expedition. Their
budding romance is threatened by a series of deadly incidents. Are they
directed at the movie crew? Or is the target local Mainers?
WINNER!
The 2021 annual Critters Workshop Readers Poll is out, and I
am honored:
M. S. Spencer (that’s me) is #3 in Authors
And Mrs. Spinney’s Secret is #3 in Mystery!
Congratulations to my fabulous publisher The Wild Rose
Press, on being voted #1 publisher.
And to my fantastic editor Eilidh MacKenzie in Editors
And my lovely artist Tina Lynn Stout for her cover for Mrs.
Spinney’s Secret (#5)
Here are the links:
https://critters.org/predpoll/
https://www.critters.org/predpoll/final_tally_novelmys.ht
https://www.critters.org/predpoll/final_tally_author.ht
Come join me at N. N. Light’s Best
Bookish Event of 2021, where Mrs. Spinney’s Secret is featured. Enjoy a delightful
excerpt about bad lobsters, and enter to win an Amazon gift card.
Here’s the link:
https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/post/mrs-spinney-s-secret-bb21
Lights! Camera! Action! Hollywood comes to Amity Landing, trailing corpses.
Mrs.
Spinney’s Secret is featured on N N Light’s Trick or Treat Bonanza today!
https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/post/mrs-spinney-s-secret-tot
Read all about it and enter to win a
$75 Amazon gift card. See you there!
See you there!
I’m part of NN Light’s Trick or Treat Book Bonanza October 26 AND 28!
All Month Long: N. N. Light’s Book Heaven is hosting the third annual Trick or Treat Book Bonanza. Great books—great prizes. This year we are offering a $75 Amazon gift card.
It all takes place here: https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/trick-or-treat-book-bonanza
Save these dates: October 26 and October 28. You’ll get a teaser and a bit more about my mystery/romances.
On October 26: Mrs. Spinney’s Secret
N. N. Light’s Book Heaven is
hosting the third annual Trick or Treat Book Bonanza. Great books—great prizes.
This year we are offering a $75 Amazon gift card.
It all takes place here: https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/trick-or-treat-book-bonanza
Save these dates: October 26 and October 28. You’ll get a teaser and a bit more about my mystery/romances:
and Orion’s Foot: Myth, Mystery, and Romance in the Amazon
Drop into the Long & Short Reviews Anniversary Blogfest today, Thursday, August 26, for a taste of my Maine mystery/romance Mrs. Spinney’s Secret.(It goes live at 7:00 am.)
Mrs. Spinney’s Secret:
Lights! Camera! Action! Hollywood comes to Amity Landing, trailing corpses.
LASR
is giving away lots of Amazon gift cards, including TWO $100 cards! All you
have to do is read my blurb, answer a question on the Rafflecopter, and win!
Easy peasy and great fun.
Father’s Day is upon us! Come by N. N. Light’s
Book Heaven TODAY for a preview of special books featuring all kinds of fathers,
including my Maine mystery Mrs. Spinney’s Secret. The
hero, Jasper MacEwan, is an aspiring movie director, and his father Philip has
given him his first major motion picture.
You can read two excerpts that show Philip in two lights—as the Hollywood tycoon, and an unexpectedly softer side as a father.
Enter the Rafflecopter to win an Amazon gift
card! Meanwhile, check Mrs. Spinney’s
Secret out here:
https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/post/mrs-spinney-s-secret-cfbe
Father’s Day is upon us! Come by N.
N. Light’s Book Heaven June 15-20 for a preview of special books featuring all
kinds of fathers. On June 20 (Father’s Day!) she will feature my Maine mystery Mrs. Spinney’s Secret. You’ll meet
our her Jasper’s father, a Hollywood tycoon with a softer side. Enter the
Rafflecopter to win an Amazon gift card!
Meanwhile, check out all the lovely books from today to Sunday.
https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/celebrate-fathers-bookish-event
I'm participating in the Winter Games Reader Challenge, featuring my new mystery romance Mrs. Spinney's Secret. Part of the book takes place in Castine, Maine.
Castine—where the Penobscot Expedition—met its fate, is a
town on the Blue Hill peninsula in Maine. It is the oldest continuously
occupied town in New England. Founded in 1613 as a trading post, the Baron de
St-Castin developed it in 1667.
It is a beautiful, classic Maine village with Greek Revival
and Federal houses. It is home to the Maine Maritime Academy. The town has a
checkered history. Controlled at various times by Abenaki Indian tribes,
French, Dutch, English, and Americans, it was a bone of contention during the
American Revolution, when the British sought to annex it as a haven for Tories
and a bulwark against marauding privateers.
I'm participating in the 2021 Winter Games Reader Challenge. If you love to read this group is a fun way to get meet more than 50 authors and challenge yourself to read more and faster. Games and giveaways daily, Author Q & As, free books, and more. And you might win up to $250! I'm offering Mrs. Spinney's Secret for free read to review.
https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSdHFwMRdVC8fu.../viewform
Here's a fun fact about Mrs. Spinney's Secret you want like:
Their leaders—including the revered Paul Revere—were dumb as
tree stumps and couldn’t decide how to attack the city—a city that sticks out
like a sore thumb on the Blue Hill peninsula. The Redcoats were prepared to
surrender, but the Americans dithered offshore for almost three weeks, which
was just enough time for English reinforcements to arrive and surround the hapless
armada.
Hey buckaroos! Mrs. Spinney's Secret is now on sale at Amazon for $1.99. Get your copy now!
If you want a free copy for review, join the Winter Games Reader Challenge.
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Join us on Facebook tonight at 7 pm EST for our opening ceremonies!
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JOIN THE WINTER GAMES READER CHALLENGE
If you love to read, this group is for you. Winter Games is
a great way to meet and get to know 56 authors, read tons of books, and
challenge yourself to read more and faster. The event includes games and
giveaways daily, fun raves twice a week with Author Q & As, free books, and
loads of fun. Oh, and you can win big cash prizes! The main event runs Feb
14th-March 14th but the fun has already started.
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