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Category Archives: mystery
Oct14
Mayne Island Skeletons Book Review by Crystal Favel
Jul31
Beta Reader
Oct9
Free “Skeletons” for month of October, until Hallowe’en
Free October Reading:
– Mayne Island Skeletons –
Get a FREE Copy of Mayne Island Skeletons…October Only.. for your Reader Devices!
Amber Harvey, Author of Magda Mystery Series
Magda and Brent explore a haunted house, solve mysteries and find the mystery of the missing bodies on Mayne Island. This is the third in a series of Stand Alone Books. Mystery, adventure, excitement!! See reviews on my blog:http://treewithroots.ca/
Stop by and download a *FREE* copy of Mayne Island Skeletons for your reader devices. October Only! Use Code: HY42Y
If you like it, please leave some feedback. Thank you everyone, and enjoy your free gift!
Grab your book here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/93378
Coupon Code: HY42Y
Expires: October 31, 2012
Happy October Reading,
Amber Harvey
Jun26
Mayne Island Skeletons reviewed: “We can ,,, taste the blackberries”
Magda’s curiosity and loyalty lead her into investigations set on her Mayne Island home. We can smell the Gulf Island fir-scented mornings and taste the blackberries as she navigates daily life as well as the calls to adventure that stretch her courage. I have read three Magda books with great pleasure and can’t wait for the next ones.
– Jane Thom.
Jun21
Free Summer Reading for the First Week of Summer
Free Summer Reading – Another Mystery from Mayne Island
Posted on July 21, 2012 by treewithroots
Get a FREE Copy of Mayne Island Skeletons One Week Only for your Reader Devices!
Amber Harvey, Author of Magda Mystery Series
Magda and Brent solve mysteries and sleuth out the guilty on Mayne Island. Third in series of Stand Alone books. Mystery, adventure, excitement!! See reviews on my blog:http://treewithroots.ca/
Stop by and download a *FREE* copy of Mayne Island Skeletons for your reader devices. One Week Only! Use Code: JL48Z
If you like it, please leave some feedback. Thank you everyone, and enjoy your free gift!
Grab your book here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/93378
Coupon Code: JL48Z
Expires: July 28, 2012
Happy Summer Reading,
Amber Harvey
Dec26
Yet Another Challenge
This isn’t a writing challenge. It’s a reading challenge: “BookChickCity’s Mystery and Suspense Reading Challenge 2012.”
Can you believe a challenge that invites you to read mystery books and review them? I can’t believe how lucky I was t o find this. I read mysteries and crime books anyway, with a little feeling of guilt, of course, since they aren’t really “literature.” I tend to shrug them off as a something I do between reading “real” novels. But let’s face it. I read them AND write them. I love them. I love page-turners, where the detective finds a new clue at the end of the chapter or is kidnapped or roughed up and you wonder what adventure is coming next.
Therefore, I was delighted to find this challenge. All I have to do is link to that website and review the books I read. And all I have to do is read and review from twelve to twenty-four mysteries this year.
Next time you see me reading I’ll be happy to boast that I’m reading a mystery book. No more guilty pleasure; it will be number blank on my list of books I’m reviewing.
Want to join me?
Go to http://www.bookchickcity.com/2011/12/sign-up-mystery-suspense-reading.html
Nov30
Its Over: I’m a NaNoWriMo Winner
I submitted my 50,001-word novel today.
I started writing on November 1, with a setting and a character. The setting was Montreal in 1967. The character was a twenty-two -year-old woman, who becomes a private investigator. I decided two other things about her. She would be driven by a need for Justice and she would have an overdeveloped sense of smell.
With just this to start with, I dove in and wrote the first chapter. I decided to write in the third person, but in a few places I would write in the first person. That was when she was a woman in her sixties, writing in the present time. I liked her right away. She had spunk.
I found myself doing research every day. I needed to check out fashion, music, vehicles, police uniforms, Expo 67, Metro, names, geography, even firearms, and much, much more. I learned a lot.
My most challenging part was writing the felons. I had to force myself to make them more violent and unscrupulous than I was comfortable with.
I write books for pre-teens, my Magda of Mayne Island Mystery Series http://www.treewithroots.ca/ so this novel, written for adults, was challenging for me.
I’ll let some time pass before I go back and rewrite this book, I think. Idon’t know if I’ll be interested in writing for the adult market in the future. I’ll have to wait and see.
Nov4
More Writing Fun
Every day a big chunk of my writing time is taken up with research. I knew I was going to be writing about life in 1967, so I could have done some of this before hand, but I didn’t. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the research . It’s really a lot of fun, but it does mean I’m spending more time at my computer than it takes to write 1600 or 1700 words .
Today I looked up the 1967 calendar and cigarettes. Yesterday I researched guns and cars. (Can you tell it’s going to be a murder mystery?) The day before it was mostly maps, names and fashions.
I would recommend NaNoWriMo to anyone who loves writing and wants to give novel-writing a whirl. It’s only one month. And it’s only a couple or three hours a day. It isn’t really a huge commitment. (But then, this IS only Day 4.)
Oct18
Kathryn Poulin reviews Mayne Island Skeletons on MysteriesEtc
I don’t normally review children’s books however Mayne Island is very close to where I live so I knew I would find the book very interesting. The story brings me back to my childhood when I loved reading the Enid Blyton mysteries and the wonderful adventures the children in her stories had.
Harvey’s adventure starring Magda her preteen sleuth is a great book for children to read. I love the location, Mayne Island, and I love the writing style of the author. The children in the book are active, they are not glued to electronics. They are inquisitive and mostly they show great character traits as they show the value of friendship.
Highly recommend this great read for preteens!
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