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Good News!

I'm thrilled to announce that the second book in my Partners Series - The Other Woman will be released in February 2010. I'd also like to thank everyone who sent healing vibes my way after I was attacked while on vacation last July. I'm still recovering, but slowly getting there and hope to be back up to full speed in the near future. Continue

Added by Kira Chase on October 14, 2009 at 10:33pm — No Comments

Getting Back On Track

I apologize for not being around much this summer. I was attacked in July while on vacation and couldn't sit at the computer for any length of time due to my injuries. I'm finally getting my stride back and will eventually catch up on all the things I left unfinished. I apologize for not answering those who have written, but will reply as soon as I can. Continue

Added by Kira Chase on August 30, 2009 at 5:52pm — No Comments

New Review For The Prize

The Prize is a well-written romance centering on two beautiful but lonely women. While the plot isn't deep, the emotions are, and when Micki and Starlyn finally get each other alone, it's worth the wait. The sex was very well done, soft and satisfying but never over-the-top. Overall, The Prize is a feel-good lesbian romance, one I'd be inclined to recommend for someone looking for a light but fun read. Literary Nymphs Reviewer: Satyr Vael http://literarynymphsreviewsonly.blogspot.com/ http://… Continue

Added by Kira Chase on July 6, 2009 at 11:12am — No Comments

The Prize Review

I am thrilled with this review for The Prize. The Prize is a good example of a confident character becoming a bumbling mess when outside her comfort zone and how one should never make assumptions; communication is the key. Kira Chase has packed a lot of emotion into this short f/f read, which is worthy of a prize itself. Reviewer: Angelika Devlyn Alternative-Read.com http://www.extasybooks.net/ebjmsite/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=ebook_flypage&product_id=5664&cate… Continue

Added by Kira Chase on July 6, 2009 at 11:09am — No Comments

THE PRIZE IS RELEASED!

Entering a contest to win a date gets Micki more than she bargained for when The Prize has a goal of its own. For two years Micki has tried to convince Starlyn, the beautiful manager of the popular club TM's, to go out with her, but Starlyn has adamantly refused. When TM's holds a contest for charity with the prize being a date with Starlyn, Micki realizes that if she can win the competition, Starlyn will have no choice but to go out with her. EXCERPT: “Wow! Starlyn looks hot tonight!” Mic… Continue

Added by Kira Chase on May 12, 2009 at 11:48am — No Comments

Emerald Envisage Is Released!

My story The Necklace is included in this new anthology from eXtasy Books. Can a necklace change one's destiny? When Jordan finds a long lost necklace from her late grandmother, her life takes a new and unexpected turn. To Purchase: http://www.extasybooks.net/ebjmsite/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=34&flypage=ebook_flypage&product_id=3247&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=44 Continue

Added by Kira Chase on March 30, 2009 at 2:57pm — No Comments

NEW RELEASE!

I'm happy to announce the first book in my series Partners: The Wrong Corpse is now available in print and several ebook formats. To read an excerpt from the first chapter or to purchase: https://www.whiskeycreekpress.com/torrid/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=392 Continue

Added by Kira Chase on March 11, 2009 at 12:45pm — No Comments

COVER FOR PARTNERS: THE WRONG CORPSE

I've just received the cover for the first book, The Wrong Corpse, in my new series Partners. Twelve years ago Frankie Barker and Johanna Obrien became partners, then lovers, on the Philadelphia Police Force. After two years, the women were tired of city living. They quit the force and moved to Charlestown, Pennsylvania, where they built a log home and hung out their shingle as private investigators. Coming March 2009 from Whiskey Creek Press Torrid. Frankie and Johanna take a case they fe… Continue

Added by Kira Chase on February 14, 2009 at 1:01pm — No Comments

The Waiting Game!

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. I’ve finished the galley for THE WRONG CORPSE the first book in my new series PARTNERS, which will be released in March. It’ll be available in both ebook and print. I can’t wait to see the cover! While I’m waiting for the release I’ve been busy on the second book in the series THE OTHER WOMAN. The writing has been going so well on the book that the first draft should be finished in about two weeks. If that isn’t enough to keep me busy I’ve also… Continue

Added by Kira Chase on January 20, 2009 at 12:04am — No Comments

Happy Holiday Wishes!

I wish everyone a safe and happy holiday! Hugs, Kira Continue

Added by Kira Chase on December 24, 2008 at 1:13am — No Comments

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

I hope everyone has a safe and Happy Thanksgiving! Hugs, Kira Continue

Added by Kira Chase on November 25, 2008 at 7:14pm — No Comments

Sanguinary Seductions Review

Reviewer Top Pick and 5 Hearts! "Each of these stories deserves a 5/5 plus on their own." Dee ~ Night Owl Romance http://www.nightowlromance.com/nightowlromance/reviews/Review.asp?ReviewId=2649 Continue

Added by Kira Chase on November 25, 2008 at 7:12pm — No Comments

OUT OF CONTROL IS RELEASED!

Blurb Alex is in a loveless relationship with Chelsea, but feels responsible for her. Then Alex meets Molly, a woman who immediately captures her heart. As things heat up between them, Alex sets out to remove Chelsea from her home, but can't seem to drive the message into Chelsea's head. When the truth comes out, Molly has second thoughts and puts on the skids. Excerpt “I’m not sorry, Alex,” Molly quietly replied, her gaze boring into Alex’s. Her lips came closer and lingered briefly before… Continue

Added by Kira Chase on November 25, 2008 at 7:10pm — No Comments

REVIEW FOR THE INTERVIEW

The Interview is a very sweet and satisfying love story that didn’t disappoint me on any level. In fact, it left me feeling warm and fuzzy all over and wishing to read more of Rae and Shayla’s story. What I loved about this story is that Kira Chase managed to really convey all of those feelings of excitement and joy that that happens when falling in love as well as all the insecurities that come up until really getting to know each other. It was very real and well written. Reviewed by: Madame… Continue

Added by Kira Chase on October 23, 2008 at 1:49pm — No Comments

The Writing Life – For The Week Of October 20

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. ~Jules Renard, "Diary," February 1895 Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. ~Author Unknown A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. ~Karl… Continue

Added by Kira Chase on October 23, 2008 at 1:47pm — No Comments

The Writing Life – For The Week Of October 13

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ~Vladimir Nabakov Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies. ~Emme Woodhull-Bäche Metaphors have a way of holding the most… Continue

Added by Kira Chase on October 14, 2008 at 11:09pm — No Comments

The Writing Life – For The Week Of October 6

Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. ~Mark Twain I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. ~James Michener The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clear… Continue

Added by Kira Chase on October 7, 2008 at 9:34pm — No Comments

The Writing Life – For The Week Of September 29

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948 A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ~Charles Peguy And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imaginatio… Continue

Added by Kira Chase on October 1, 2008 at 12:08pm — No Comments

The Writing Life - September 23

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. ~Samuel Butler The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded,… Continue

Added by Kira Chase on September 23, 2008 at 8:18pm — No Comments

The Vamp

My story The Vamp is included in the soon to be released anthology Sanguinary Seductions from eXtasy Books. It will be available in both print and ebook formats. Continue

Added by Kira Chase on September 15, 2008 at 12:15am — No Comments

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Are you ready?

I am so not ready for Christmas. I just realized I don't have much time either. One good thing is the DH is off Friday and possibly all next week, so I can give him a few chores to do, which may help some. I'm counting on him to put stamps and labels on the Christmas cards, and do a few things around the house to straighten it out some. Unfortunately, I'm the organizer in the family, so I can't expect too much on the getting-the- house ready front. That's pathetic, since I'm not very organized. (g)

Anyway, I hope to get the house into decent shape before Christmas, when I do my annual meal for the family. There's also that Christmas list to get together. Time is ticking away.

What about you? Are you ready for Christmas? Or do you celebrate another Holiday? If so, are you ready?

Please Welcome Mary Cunningham, Cynthia's Attic Author

Discovering Family in Cynthia's Attic

One of the main reasons for writing "Cynthia's Attic" came from my failure - failure to appreciate my ancestors. Our family stories are probably no more or less interesting than most, and I went out of my way to avoid remembering most of them or asking questions about my grandparents lives.

For instance. Did I bother to ask my grandfather what it was like playing in the first night football game in America?

Or did I try to find out just which relative "supposedly" sold a city block on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for $20,000? Guaranteed, I would not be sitting here writing a blog had that particular relative held on to the property.

Then there's the story, "Cynthia's Attic: Curse of the Bayou," of my great-great grandfather, Augustus Boilliat who disappeared in 1860 while taking a load of produce down the Mississippi River to New Orleans? Oh, sure I've read different accounts about what happened to him, but lost forever are the stories his grandson (my grandfather) could've told me about facts he'd heard from my great-great grandmother, Marie Julia, about her husband's disappearance.

I remember a few accounts told by my dad about his adventures as a teenage cave guide at one of the largest caves in the Southern Indiana area, Wyandotte, but I only have to guess at some of the adventures he must've had.

That's why I'm writing adventures I wanted my ancestors to have; adventures I can enjoy with them through the eyes and voice of my character, Gus.

The idea for Cynthia's Attic: The Magician's Castle came from detailed genealogy research done by my cousin, Betty. Long before the Internet, she traveled to Switzerland to search for documents that would tie our great-grandmother, Harriet Kistler, to Peter Kistler the First, President of the Republic of Bern, 1470-1480. I've tried to honor the Kistler family in the fourth adventure in Cynthia's Attic.

Thanks, Morgan, for having me as a guest!

Mary Cunningham

Mary Cunningham is the author of the award-winning 'Tween fantasy/mystery series, Cynthia’s Attic. She is proud to announce the release of book four, "The Magician's Castle," Dec 1, 2009. Her children's mystery series was inspired by a recurring dream about a mysterious attic. After realizing that the dream took place in the home of her childhood friend, Cynthia, the dreams stopped and the writing began.

She is also co-writer of the humor-filled, women's lifestyle book, "Women Only Over Fifty (WOOF)," along with published stories, "Ghost Light" and "Christmas Daisy," A Cynthia's Attic short story.

To celebrate the release of "The Magician's Castle," (Quake/Echelon Press, DEC 1, 2009), a winner will be chosen on each blog stop to receive a copy of the "Cynthia's Attic" short story, "Christmas With Daisy!" So, be sure to make a comment!

Mary Cunningham Books
http://www.marycunninghambooks.com/

Cynthia's Attic Blog
http://www.cynthiasattic.blogspot.com/

Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Cunningham/e/B002BLNEK4/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=digital-text&field-author=Mary%20Cunningham

Fictionwise
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/a20811/Mary-Cunningham/?

Quake/Echelon Press
http://www.echelonpress.com/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=23&zenid=4ac57b7ae19fa071cab3b4295df7baf3

Please leave a comment to welcome Mary.

Check out the Mystery of the Missing Checks

Monday, I'm over at my group blog, http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com/, where I'm blogging about the mystery of the missing checks. Come on over and find out what it's all about.

Thanks,
Morgan Mandel

Can We Talk?

I'm firming up some dates for speaking engagements in 2010. One's tentatively set for March 28, at 1:30 at the Niles Public Library, another probably in mid May at the Schaumburg Township District Library.

Also, coming up is a radio interview at WJJQ again on May 7, at 9:35 a.m. before my booksigning May 8 at Cover to Cover Books in Tomahawk, WI.

I've heard that some people are more afraid of public speaking than of dying. Surprisingly, I find it easier each time I do it. As long as I have my cheat sheet with me to glance down at once in a while for security and I like what I'm talking about, I'm okay.

What about you? Do you like to talk or would you rather not?

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