Summer Review Event at Moonlight & Mystery

Moonlight & Mystery is lining up a Summer Review Wars event for July  15 to August 15 and we’re looking for a maximum of fifty authors to sign up. It will be a month-long Facebook party/reader event, where active readers get free books to choose from. Their completed reviews get them entries into giveaways (gift cards, print books) so they have a lot of motivation to get those Amazon reviews in. 

There is an entry fee of $50 to cover gift card giveaways and to pay the organizer.  Entrants are responsible for scheduling a sale on their title during their 5 days...Indie and self-published books are welcome.. It’s recommended that you put your book on sale for 99 cents.

Please make sure you read the FAQs here:  https://moonlightandmystery.com/epic-author-events-faqs/

Sign ups and more info here: 

https://moonlightandmystery.com/epic-events/summer-review-wars/

Shocking! Spencer’s For the Love of a Spy at Dawn’s Reading Nook

Ready for a new, shocking excerpt from my romantic suspense For the Love of a Spy?

For the Love of a Spy: the Scrivener & the Handyman

Maris Graystone writes the Scrivener, a political column, and Michael Kinder is a handyman with a secret. They meet on a hot day in Washington DC in 1991, an era electric with possibility and peril. Empires are falling, peace is being negotiated, and their love affair is caught up in the whirlwind of events.

Come find it at Dawn’s Reading Nook today, May 22:

https://dawnsreadingnook.blogspot.com/2019/05/guest-author-day-with-m-s-spencer.html

Back from Gainesville Book Signing

Back from Gainesville a little lighter.

I’ve just returned from a wonderful book signing event in Gainesville, Florida. The venue was the Alachua County Libraries main branch, an awesome building with soaring wooden ceilings. There were 35 authors there—representing genres from science fiction to romance to mystery to memoirs. I met many authors and quite a few readers, and even sold books! Many many thanks to Cheri Roman and her band of sisters for a great event.

A shoutout to my new friends! I should have gotten all your cards! But I wasn't thinking! 

/Bangs head on desk/

I’m Going to the I Heart Book Festival Saturday May 11!

I’m Going to the Fourth Annual  I Heart Book Festival 

Saturday, May 11, Noon to 4 p.m.

Be prepared for a wonderful book signing right in the middle of Florida! The 4^th annual I Heart Book Festival will be held at the main branch of the Alachua County Libraries in Gainesville on May 11. Join me and more than forty authors from around Florida for prizes, fun, books and conversation!

Here’s the event page for more information.

https://floridawriters.net/conferences/multi-genre-book-signing/

Attendance is free. The event will be held from 12 noon to 4 pm at

Alachua County Library District: Main Branch

401 E. University Ave

Gainesville, FL 32601

Come find me! I’ll have copies available for sale of all twelve of my romantic suspense and mystery novels , including Flotsam & Jetsam: the Amelia Island Affair (yes, it’s set right here in Florida).

Three corpses strewn across the sand. Who are they and how did they get to Amelia Island?  State Park rangers Simon Ribault and Ellie Ironstone must find the answers while contending with a secretive group called the League of the Green Cross. Are the deaths linked to it? Or could they be tied to the colorful history of the island, which was won and lost eight times?  Mucking up the investigation is the crucial question—who will Ellie choose: Thad, the handsome local idol, and Simon, the clever, quirky bookworm?

TWRP     Amazon     Barnes and Noble     ITunes

KOBO     Indigo     Google Play     Indie-bound

Bookstrand     Walmart

and For the Love of a Spy, my 1991 global adventure romance:

In 1991, an era electric with possibility and peril, Maris Graystone, who writes the Scrivener, a political column, and Michael Kinder, jack of all trades, meet. Despite the instantaneous sparks, they both sense there is more to their relationship than physical attraction.

Their love affair intensifies against the backdrop of the dramatic world events—a disintegrating USSR, Middle East peace talks, and Vietnam’s reemergence on the world stage. Michael appears and disappears at unpredictable moments, leaving Maris limp and lovelorn. Looking for safe harbor for both her emotions and her body, she welcomes the advances of a dashing French diplomat, Émile de Canalon, who whisks her off to France.

Will she embrace the luxury and comfort of Émile and his chateau or the romance of international intrigue with Michael?

I Heart Books     Amazon     Smashwords     KOBO

Barnes & Noble     Indigo     I Tunes

Great Review for Artful Dodging: the Torpedo Factory Murders

The grainy black and white photograph showed the marina in front of the Torpedo Factory. The sky was dark, and a few dots of light flickered from the riverboat moored at the dock. In their refracted glow, the boats appeared to dip and sway. A lone figure wearing a hooded sweatshirt leaned into the back of a launch at the end of the dock, too far away to make out his face.

 From a great review by Heidi W. on NetGalley:

“The Artful Dodging is a fun well paced hot romance with the right amount of mystery.  The characters are off beat allowing readers into the world of M.S. Spencer.”

https://www.netgalley.com/book/162586/reviews

Artful Dodging: the Torpedo Factory Murders, by M. S. Spencer:

Brooding on both the death of her husband and the four needlepoint stockings she has to finish,  not to mention two mysterious murders, Milo Everhart is distracted by the handsome man standing in the pub doorway.
Tristram Brodie, hard-driving lawyer and former Marine, is focused on his plan to convert the Torpedo Factory Art Center into a box store. He is drawn to the beautiful woman watching him, but blocking the road to romance is his proposal to gut her beloved studio.

As Milo and Tristram edge closer to love, they must find a way to overcome not only their differences but also the still painful memory of her loss.