In fact, he loved cigars and found smoking very relaxing. Other fun facts about the author: His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His father died of pneumonia when he was 12, and Mark Twain became an apprentice printer at the Missouri Courier. Later, he wrote for local newspapers. The author also worked as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi river. He got his pen name, Mark Twain, from steamboat slang for 12…
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Lisa Lutz
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The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
Frank Dubois is lying dead at the foot of the stairs, and his wife Tanya is weighing her options: should she call the police, get rid of the body, or run away? Since she has already been running from the law for the last decade, she decides to leave, assumes a new identity and drives South without looking back. As she travels across the US, she meets Blue, another woman trying to escape from her past. They…
Alexandra Sokoloff
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Visual Storytelling: Setpiece Scenes
The following is a guest post by Alexandra Sokoloff, author of Cold Moon, the third book in the Huntress series. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. I’m often told that my thrillers are extremely visual and cinematic; I’m pretty sure that the comment I get most often from readers is “I could see the whole story like a movie…
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Alexandria Then and Now
The following is a guest post by William Snyder, author of Songs of Icarus. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. There is a quote from Ray Bradbury on Book Obsessed: “A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.” ‘Ancient Egypt’? I fell in love with modern Alexandria on a…
Ellen Hopkins
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Love Lies Beneath by Ellen Hopkins
Tara lives in San Francisco and is a wealthy 40-year-old confident woman who has been married 3 times but has never been in love. While on vacation in Tahoe with her sister, Melody, she has a skiing accident and ends up in the hospital where she meets handsome Dr. Cavin Lattimore. They start going out, and everything seems to be going great until Tara meets Cavin’s son, Eli. The father-son relationship…
Connie Knight
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My Life, My Mystery
The following is a guest post by Connie Knight, author of Cemetery Whites and Chances Choices Changes Death. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. The truth is, I have a life, but I haven’t really lived a mystery. You can incorporate something you once observed into the story you’re thinking about, even if it’s fictional rather than the…
Emma Donoghue
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Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
It is the end of summer 1876, and San Francisco has been struck by a heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Jenny Bonnet, a frog-hunting woman dressed in men’s clothes, is riding her bicycle when she collides with Blanche Beunon, a burlesque dancer and prostitute. This is the start of an unexpected friendship that will end a month later when Jenny is shot dead in a saloon at San Miguel Station. Blanche is…