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Bookin’ with Bingo is giving away a copy of Angel Condemned. All you need to do is comment on her preview of my latest book. The contest ends January 12 — good luck!

Angel Condemned, the fifth in my series of Beaufort & Company Mysteries, will be published November 1, 2011 by Berkley Prime Crime. In advance of that event, I’m offering Chapter One freely to anyone who wants it.

Click the button below to go to my Scribd profile and read Chapter One of Angel Condemned:

I’m very happy to announce that my Magical Mysteries series of young-adult novels — My Aunt, The Monster, White Magic and Next Door Witch — is now available in electronic editions for the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook!

Mary takes time out from the newest Claudia Bishop novel to school her pony! See more

The fifth novel in my Beaufort & Company Mystery series will be published on November 1, 2011. I just received the cover art yesterday.

Head on over to Fresh Fiction to read my guest blog about the Beaufort & Company series and writing in general. I hope you enjoy it!

The Heavenly Horse From The Outermost West, the book that began my fiction career back in 1988, has been reissued in electronic form and can now be downloaded from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

This appears to be coming in by iPhone from Master Chef Meg Quilliam and her inn-keeping sister Quill, both of whom are usually in Hemlock Falls in Claudia Bishop’s best-selling series. What’s Meg doing in Savannah, Georgia? That’s the stomping grounds for Brianna Winston-Beaufort of Claudia’s alter ego (or is it the other way around?) Mary Stanton. Usually, Brianna’s busy handling appeals for souls condemned to hell and she must be run off her feet with Angel’s Verdict coming out this week!

Has it really been a whole year since Avenging Angels was published? It has! The newest Beaufort & Company novel, Angel’s Verdict, went on sale today at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and good old-fashioned bookstores everywhere in the United States. Feels good.

Romantic Times recently asked me to offer some advice to authors who are preparing to write their first mystery novel and, to my amazement, they published it. Here’s a sample.