Showing posts with label The Mason's Mark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Mason's Mark. Show all posts

Saturday, August 3, 2019

M. S. Spencer Featured in August MFRW Newsletter

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Please visit the wonderful Marketing for Romance Writers magazine. Just released is the August issue featuring—are your ready?—ME. I’m talking ME...oh, and about Triptych, my romantic suspense set on the Potomac River and The Mason’s Mark, mystery romance set in Old Town Alexandria. Here’s the link:


I’m talking a little about my works-in-progress and my background. Then you’ll be treated to a taste of two of my books:



In the worst first day at work ever, docent Claire Wilding’s carefully rehearsed tour is spoiled by the discovery of a dead body. As she deals with a smitten detective, a hunky Senator, black ops agents, and eccentric mothers, she's learns all about jewels and pennies, renegade Italian Masons, and our first President’s family secrets. Along the way she discovers that first love is not always the right love.

And Triptych:


Take lost masterpieces, brilliant inventors, and stolen prototypes. Add the Three Sisters, Indian spirits who guard the Potomac River. Stir in three sisters and their lovers. Result? Jealousy, sex, genius, larceny and love. Who will end up with whom, and will the Three Sisters take another life as the legend demands?



Friday, August 2, 2019

The Mason’s Mark at the Bingeworthy Book Festival Today



Okay, so today’s the day! The Mason’s Mark: Love & Death in the Tower, makes its debut on N. N. Light’s Book Heaven’s Binge-Worthy Book Festival! 

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The Mason's Mark arose in part out of a true story. Starting in the 1940s an Italian named Licio Gelli embarked on a lifetime of bizarre scams and crimes. Alternately linked to rightists and leftists, he bilked or used people from Italian politicians, to the Nazis, the Communists, the CIA, even to Juan Peron, dictator of Argentina. His exploits cross the globe and spanned four decades. At last check, he was still alive, in his nineties and writing poetry from prison. In 1996 he was even nominated for the Nobel prize in literature.

Gelli is most famous for founding a Masonic lodge called Propaganda Due, a renegade group that was first dissolved, then reinstated, then erased by the Grand Orient de Italia. He had ensnared many prominent Italians into P2, which ultimately led to several huge scandals.  As the model for the shadowy puppetmaster in The Mason's Mark, I've saddled him with yet another—this time fictional--scandal. But you'll have to find your way through many plot twists and red herrings to discover just what that scandal really is.

Enjoy an excerpt at the Binge-Worthy festival on me!



Thursday, August 1, 2019

Binge on Books August 1-30, but especially August 2




Celebrate your love of books all month long at N. N. Light’s Book Heaven Binge-Worthy Book Festival. 43 books, 30 bestselling and award-winning authors, 5 Amazon/B&N gift cards plus authors share what their first binge-worthy book they read and recommend. Join in the fun!

August 2: Read all about Spencer’s The Mason’s Mark: Love & Death in the Tower.

The Mason's Mark, a murder mystery/romance, set in Alexandria, Virginia at the Masonic Memorial. If you’re interested in international intrigue involving renegade Masons and black ops, long-lost papers of George Washington, and great romance, this is for you.




Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Bingeworthy Books All August--I'm on August 2



Calling all readers! 


Feed your book addiction with N. N. Light’s Book Heaven Binge-Worthy Book Festival. 

43 books featured plus a chance to win one of the following:

Enter to win a $50 Amazon (US) or Barnes and Noble Gift Card
Enter to win a $50 Amazon (US) or Barnes and Noble Gift Card
Enter to win a $25 Amazon (US) or Barnes and Noble Gift Card
Enter to win a $15 Amazon (US) or Barnes and Noble Gift Card
Enter to win a $10 Amazon (US) or Barnes and Noble Gift Card

I’m thrilled to be a part of this event. My book, The Mason’s Mark: Love & Death in the Tower, will be featured on August 2


I even talk about my first binge-worthy book I read. You won’t want to miss it.


Bookmark this get-together and tell your friends:





Tuesday, May 28, 2019

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

BLOGGING WITH BEVERLEY



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.




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:


Friday, March 1, 2019

The Mason's Mark Available for Review--Get Your Copy Now



Do do do drop by Netgalley. The Mason's Mark is available for review for the next two weeks. Get your free copy and let us know how you liked it!

https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/143014



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.

Thursday, February 7, 2019

I’m Featured at N. N. Light’s Book Heaven!


Please drop by N. N. Light’s Book Heaven today: I am spotlighted (Note: NOT gaslighted).
I’m talking about settings and how they influence my books.
You’ll be treated to teasers for all twelve of my mystery/romantic suspense novels, and a bigger taste of three of them.







Also check me out at the Love & Romance Book Festival on February 21:

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