Dump the body
January 31, 2011
Your protagonist blows a tire on a deserted road. When she checks for the spare, she finds the body of a young girl (mid-teens.) What does she do?
Living in Berlin in the 1930s with a small income, Hannah doesn’t have a car. In “A Trace of Smoke,” she couldn’t even drive, but by “A Night of Long Knives,” she was a good enough driver to steal Ernst Röhm’s staff car and light out after Hitler. In the upcoming “A Game of Lies” a certain wine-red Opel Olympia plays a key role too. Read more
What I want from Santa
January 18, 2011
by Rebecca Cantrell
Here’s my problem (and I suspect I’m not alone): there is TOO MUCH to do. I twitter. I Facebook. I do physical book tours. I do virtual blog tours. I check in at goodreads and shelfari. I blog. I read and comment on other blogs. I have a newsletter. I go to conferences and book festivals. I review books. I help out organizations. I judge major contests. I do TV (a couple of times). I do radio (likewise). I get great reviews (and bad ones). I read about marketing. I try to reach my niche. I check through my google analytics web site data. It’s exhausting. Read more