Book Launch Day!

It's book launch day!

Today the Henery Press edition of Artifact comes out. This is the same book that I released last year, with three differences:

1. It's got a gorgeous new book cover.
2. There's an Author's Note about the Scottish and Indian history in the book.
3. A Reader's Discussion Guide is included for book clubs.

For those of you who already read Artifact last year, I've got some fun things planned so you won't feel like you have to wait quite as long until Pirate Vishnu comes out in February 2014:

This October I'll be emailing my newsletter subscribers a Halloween-themed Jaya Jones mystery short story.

And if you haven't yet read "Fool's Gold," the novella that's a prequel to Artifact (Jaya and Sanjay solve a locked-room mystery at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival), the eBook on sale for only $.99 cents this week on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

I'm not doing any in-person events right now, but I'm appearing at various online venues over the next six weeks, starting today with an interview for Henery Press and a memoir-y post on the fabulous blog of one of my favorite memoir writers, Rachael Herron:

• Today: Interview on the Henery Press website
• Today: Talking about lessons learned from cancer on Rachael Herron’s Yarn-A-Go-Go blog

UPCOMING ONLINE EVENTS

• August 9: Interview with character Jaya Jones on the Self-Rescue Princess blog
• August 16: Talking about creativity in a high tech world on the Guppies Anthology blog
• August 19: Talking about classic mysteries on the LadyKillers blog
• September 7: Talking about researching Scotland and India on Poe’s Deadly Daughters
• September 11: Interview on Writers Who Kill
• September 14: Talking about childhood adventures on Jungle Red Writers

TWITTER CHAT with two mystery novelists who write about Scotland
Friday September 6
Noon-1pm PT / 3-4pm ET
Anna Lee Huber, author of the Lady Darby historical mysteries (Mortal Arts, Sept 3 2013)
Gigi Pandian, author of the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery Series (Artifact, August 6 2013)
Use the hashtag #ScotlandMystery to join the conversation

Whew! It's a good thing I eat so healthily now so I've got the energy to do all this while still working on the third Jaya Jones book! And of course I've got my little gargoyle helpers...