Celebrate! The Holiday Season Is Upon Us!
We’re past Halloween.
Thanksgiving! Christmas! New Year’s!
All are Important Times for Family & Friends.
Here at Writers Ink Books we will Celebrate Five Anniversaries … and Two New Releases still to Come.
Seven to Celebrate in November and December ~
For Fantasy Readers ~ Dream a Deadly Dream (epic novel)
The exiled wizard Alstera wandered into Vaermonde, seeking an opportunity to rid herself of the Fae marks that shackle her power. The nightmares of the fugitive comtesse Cherai offer the chance to serve one of her penances and free one element of her power.
Can Alstera stop the poisoned nightmares before they kill Cherai? Or will she fall into the tainted blood magic before she frees Cherai from those sorcerous deadly dreams?
Published in 2017, the dark epic fantasy Dream a Deadly Dream is the second book in the grim Fae Mark’d Wizard series.
Bk 1: Weave a Wizardry Web https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074HJG1P7
Bk 2: Dream a Deadly Dream https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077CTRD9V
And Bk 3: Sing a Graveyard Song https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BK9DYDK
The opening trilogy is a best-bargain bundle of this epic fantasy, released this summer as Tangled Spells. Available as an ebook or a massive paperback here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0973LXLC2
View the trailer at this link: https://youtu.be/zwWFb11GP1g
Gothic Mysteries in a Duology ~ Perils in Lace and Hard Iron
Everyone knows there’s no such thing as ghosts. Someone needs to tell the ghosts.
View the Trailer https://youtu.be/S30xkJH4phk
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The Dark Lord ~ A Regency Gothic Mystery
Something strange is driving servants from Feldstone Grange. Elizabeth Fortescue is too desperate to reject the offer of housekeeper, and Baron Harcourt is desperate to fill the position.
On her first night at the Grange, Elizabeth encounters two ghosts. One is the well-known Silent Lady. The other ghost persists in haunting her, enticing her to follow it.
Is it a real ghost? Is a fellow servant attempting to terrify her? Or does someone have a wicked reason to haunt the new housekeeper?
Elizabeth doesn’t know the answer—but she has more incentive to stay than leave.
Will she remain at the Grange? Or will the second ghost’s increasing hauntings drive her away?
Or lead her into death?
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The Bride in Ghostly White ~ A Victorian Gothic Mystery
When Enid’s beloved cousin died while riding, she didn’t believe the simple tragic words of an accident.
Seeking the truth, she disguises herself as a lady’s companion to enter the household at Derlaston Manor.
Rumors do not just tell of trouble after the wedding of her cousin to the eighth Baron of Derlaston. Enid also learns of the baron’s need for money, of his late father’s unlucky death while riding, and of a mysterious mistress at the estate when her cousin died.
A black-haired vagabond lurks in a nearby woodland.
And a ghost haunts the manor, a ghost who looks very like Enid’s cousin.
Did the baron commit murder? Or one of his family? Or that mysterious vagabond?
The ghost knows … but the ghost isn’t telling.
Find the duology at these links:
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2TNSCNC
Zon paperback https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G3WW9MX4
Books 2 Read https://books2read.com/u/3yjMBJ
Trailer https://youtu.be/S30xkJH4phk
Historical Mystery ~ “The Lion’s Den” short story
This novella, intended to be a short story, brings to the forefront two secondary characters from Christmas with Death. (See below. It’s also a 2017 November publication to celebrate.
Jack Portman had never forgotten Filly Malvaise.
Then she walked into his local pub and into the clutches of a loan shark.
Can he rescue her before she falls victim to evil?
Published in 2020, “The Lion’s Den” is set in the London of the early 1920s with the Bright Young Things. The returned soldiers of the Great War — like Jack Portman — have settled uncomfortably into their lives.
You can join M.A. Lee’s newsletter to receive a free copy of this novella. Then you can celebrate a bargain! Email us at winkbooks@aol.com.
View the trailer at this link: https://youtu.be/qbx47Cmm7UY
Another Historical Mystery ~ Christmas with Death (Novel)
This Christmastide novel inspired “The Lion’s Den” (above).
A November 2017 publication for the Christmas market, Christmas with Death was never on the plan until M.A. Lee’s sister wanted to see the next book with Isabella Newcombe and Madoc Tarrant.
Christmas is for miracles, merriment, and murder.
An English country Christmas in 1919 should be a joyful celebration. Isabella Newcombe, however, discovers only petty sniping and bitterness when she and her friends are invited to Emberley.
Rumors of affaires and drug addiction as well as accusations of blackmail sour the holiday atmosphere. Then the four friends discover the body of a fellow visitor, shot dead and left lying in an ice-skimmed pond.
With multiple motives and suspects, will Scotland Yard solve the crime before Isabella is the murderer’s next target? Will an imperfect murder be impossible to solve?
Christmas with Death is the second novel in the Into Death series (see below). Each novel of the Into Death series is complete and not a cliff-hanger. Enjoy a richer experience by reading all three books in the Into Death series. All three books are available in paperback and ebook.
Bk 1: Digging into Death
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXPRKHM
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX1BPx6VUnU
Bk 2: Christmas with Death
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077SBB4DN
trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgr99ForHpA
& Bk 3: Portrait with Death
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0973GVKSQ
https://books2read.com/u/b6vrjZ
Trailer https://youtu.be/6cfEOGy-fXQ
Celebrate with a best-bargain bundle of all three books: Into Death, (see below)
Into Death ~ A Bundle is the best Bargain for Christmas Reading
This collection contains the first three novels with artist Isabella Newcombe Tarrant, solving murders as she paints away.
It’s a Best-Bargain Bundle to Celebrate!
Digging into Death
trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX1BPx6VUnU
Christmas with Death
trailer https://youtu.be/Cgr99ForHpA
Portrait with Death
trailer https://youtu.be/6cfEOGy-fXQ
Get the bundle at this link: https://books2read.com/u/baDN1L
Find it at the Zon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MRBNCH7
Two Publications for December.
Although we always have Plans for More Books!
A Regency Mystery ~ “A Wintry Light” short story
Bringing back the characters of Vic and Elise and more from The Hazard with Secrets and The Hazard for Spies.
And, finally, we would not be Writers Ink Books if we didn’t also celebrate a NON
Fiction publication.
Discovering Your Plot (novel-length)
On the 29th of December, barely making 2019, DiscPlot released.
What do writers want from plot?
What do writers need from plot?
Are those questions the same? Not really.
As wordsmiths, we writers know that want and need are two different words.
Can we writers deliver on the expectations and the surprises in order to please our readers?
That’s the involved question that Discovering Your Plot hopes to answer.
This guidebook covers plot structure and the necessities of genre expectations so we writers can anticipate what readers want. It’s a detailed examination of the major sections of a novel.
DiscPlot offers the tools that writers need to construct a story and diagnose problems
with pacing, tension, suspense, and sequencing.
Discovering Your Plot is Book 6 in the Think like a Pro Writer series and the second of the Discovering set of how-to guidebooks for writers at all skill levels. While the approach is for newbies, every writer can benefit from this fresh look at any novel’s framework.
The Discovering set covers Characters, Plot, Author Branding, and Sentence Craft as well as completing a Novel—from the seeds of idea to publishing the manuscript.
Find DiscPlot at this link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0838PTN49/
DiscPlot is part of the Discovering Your Writing four-book best-bargain bundle, available in ebook and paperback. As of this writing, the paperback cover has not arrived … although it is close. I will add a link when the ppb releases … and then I’ll celebrate another Best-Bargain Bundle!
Here’s a link for DiscWriting:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08691892S
View the Trailer: https://youtu.be/hTVQn92kNBk
TTFN! Celebrate your holidays!
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