I never post reviews (it’s such a humble brag – no offense to my author friends! I do it in plenty of other ways), but after this crap year I needed this. From a reader on Goodreads for the new book, Reservation for Murder: A Kyle Callahan Mystery:

“It’s been too, too long of a wait. Five years! I read “Kill Switch” back in 2016 and have been hoping for a 6th book in this amazing and thrilling series.

I love the characters of Kyle and Danny. It’s refreshing to read a LGBTQA+ book with main characters of my generation. And to make them a well rounded, 3-dimensional, realist gay couple. I was pleasantly surprised and refreshing thrilled that even though they were a loving and affectionate couple I did not end up knowing their penis size, what their favorite type of lubricant was and who pitched and who catched. Mark McNease has a wonderful way of slowly building suspense and character development. He sucks you into the story and doesn’t let go. Highly recommend this series and I hope and pry Mr. McNease writes many more books in this series.”

It’s enough to make me want to keep writing!

Merry Christmas! Finally, something good to end this year on. My newest, Reservation for Murder: A Kyle Callahan Mystery, hit #1 in LGBT Mystery on Amazon’s Kindle list today.

You can read your way into the New Year with over 50 LGBTQ fiction titles available through January 15. Just CLICK TO BROWSE and start downloading directly from BookFunnel. You’ll find authors such as Marshall Thornton, Darby Horn, L.C. Mawson, Daniel De Lorne, Kat Silver, Brad Graber, me of course, and many more.

Subscription to an author’s email list is required. So sign up, download, and start reading today. And remember, murder never takes a holiday.

Homicide for the holidays! I’ll be having a 10-book Christmas sale from December 24 – 29, including a BookBub Featured Deal for my newest, Reservation for Murder: A Kyle Callahan Mystery. Those Featured Deals are hard to get, so I could not be happier. Ten killers killing … and a great end to a difficult year.

New book? New Goodreads giveaway! I love my Goodreads fans and always offer a giveaway with each new book. Starting today, you can enter to win one of 100 Kindle editions of Reservation for Murder: A Kyle Callahan Mystery. Winners will be selected at random by Goodreads and each one will received a Kindle edition of the book. Winners will be chosen on December 15. JUST CLICK HERE to enter with your Goodreads account and watch your email when the giveaway ends.

About Reservation for Murder: A Kyle Callahan Mystery

It’s been several years since Kyle Callahan sought the help of a New York City therapist to overcome the trauma of his encounter with a serial killer, and just as long since his investigation into a teenage girl’s murder brought down the Manhattan District Attorney. He and his husband Danny Durban have decided to move away, to start a new life in the idyllic river city of Lambertville, New Jersey. They have friends there. They’ll have peace and quiet. They can leave the hustle and bustle and stresses of America’s biggest metropolis behind.

They open a bed and breakfast, and soon discover that murder and mayhem are waiting to check in. There’s a writers conference in town, with big names and big egos heading for a clash—and a killing—of titans. No sooner has the ink dried on the guest registry than Kyle finds himself pursuing another murderer, this one closer to home than they’ve ever come. He enlists the help of his old friend and local resident Linda Sikorsky, once a detective on the New Hope, Pennsylvania, police force. The two of them follow one lead after another in a race against time until the shocking truth is exposed.

You can now enjoy a four chapter sample of the audiobook edition of ‘Beautiful Corpse: A Marshall James Thriller,’ directly from Book Funnel. Just CLICK HERE to listen or download. And if you’d like to hear the rest, it’s available at Audible and Amazon. Fasten your headphones!

The paperback has arrived and it looks fabulous! Reservation for Murder: A Kyle Callahan Mystery is now available.

Just in time, and in my favorite month! It’s my birth month, it’s Halloween, and it’s the wide release of Reservation for Murder: A Kyle Callahan Mystery. It’s been five years since the last Kyle Callahan book, and it was so much fun meeting the characters again and riding the mystery train with them. The eBook edition is out now on Amazon and Apple Books, and will be out very soon on Barnes & Noble and Kobo (those are pending review, which can take a few days). And look for the paperback edition in the next few weeks.

About Reservation for Murder: 

It’s been several years since Kyle Callahan sought the help of a New York City therapist to overcome the trauma of his encounter with a serial killer, and just as long since his investigation into a teenage girl’s murder brought down the Manhattan District Attorney. He and his husband Danny Durban have decided to move away, to start a new life in the idyllic river city of Lambertville, New Jersey. They have friends there. They’ll have peace and quiet. They can leave the hustle and bustle and stresses of America’s biggest metropolis behind.

They open a bed and breakfast, and soon discover that murder and mayhem are waiting to check in. There’s a writers conference in town, with big names and big egos heading for a clash—and a killing—of titans. No sooner has the ink dried on the guest registry than Kyle finds himself pursuing another murderer, this one closer to home than they’ve ever come. He enlists the help of his old friend and local resident Linda Sikorsky, once a detective on the New Hope, Pennsylvania, police force. The two of them follow one lead after another in a race against time until the shocking truth is exposed.

By Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm Sez

“TMI: My Life in Scandal” by Perez Hilton with Leif Eriksson and Martin Svensson
c.2020, Chicago Review Press $26.99 / $35.99 Canada 229 pages

You’re allowed to change your mind.

You grow, get a few experiences under your belt, and things might look a bit different. You can have a change of heart then, and pivot your life in a different direction. You can take do-overs and take-backs, but carefully. And as in the new book “TMI” by Perez Hilton (with Leif Eriksson and Martin Svensson), you can ask for forgiveness, too.

If you knew Mario Armando Lavandiera Jr. when he was a child, you’d be surprised at the man he is today. He says he had a good childhood but he was a “different” kid then, and was often bullied: among other indignities, his classmates called him “the Fat Kid” because he loved to eat.