Timothy Hallinan will be at Bookwagon Friday May 11th, at 6PM
He will discuss The Poke Rafferty Thrillers
And the Junior Bender Books
And now available on Kindle, the Simeon Grist Mysteries
Maureen says "He's driving up from Santa Monica right now, heading north on I-5, maybe with a stop in Yreka, to see Rory MacNeil, mayor of the town and mystery maven. Tomorrow, Thursday May 10, he'll be here in Ashland. You might catch him staking out some space in The Beanery or Boulevard or Rogue Valley Roasting - he loves writing in coffee shops (in Santa Monica he writes in The Novel Cafe). And certainly on Friday at 6p, you can meet him and talk with him at Bookwagon.
The Queen of Patpong was wonderful! Poke Rafferty’s settled in Bangkok, and for an ex‐pat, is a surprising insider. Poke’s familiar with the underbelly, and the belly of the underbelly too. He’s assembled a family—a waif named Miaow and Rose, the former and legendary Queen of Patpong. This is her backstory: a frightening, courageous journey to adulthood, facing terrible challenges yet never losing her essential integrity.
I can’t get enough of Timothy Hallinan. Read him. You won’t be sorry. You’ll want more."
Books are at Bookwagon, both the Poke Rafferty series and the harder to find Simon Grist series.
For more information, contact Ashland Mystery at 541-552-0743, or email maureen@bookandoldlace.com. Books are at Bookwagon, call 541-488-4477 to pick up an advance copy. Ashland Mystery is sponsored by Friends of the Ashland Public Library, Standing Stone Brewing Company and Bookwagon New and Used Books.
Eugene author LJ Sellers launched the 2012 Ashland Mystery season, with a visit to Bookwagon on Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 6pm
LJ Sellers printed The Sex Club in 2007. It was a controversial thriller that opened with the bombing of a birth control clinic, a young woman dead in a dumpster and, as Sellers says, a Bible study group that shared more than Good News. Who knew that Sellers' first quiet effort would be followed by a series so successful that she now writes full time.
The Sex Club was a written as a stand alone, and introduced Detective Jackson, an investigator that's stood the test of the series. Secrets to Die For (2008) dealt with a serial rapist, Thrilled to Death (2009) with society secrets, Passions of the Dead (2010) with home invasion and blackmail, Dying for Justice (2011) with police corruption and Liars, Cheaters and Thieves (2011) with con guys too beguiling to resist. Sellers' many fans now expect a new Detective Jackson thriller year after year, and year after year, Sellers obliges.
A former journalist, Sellers sets her thrillers in her home town, Eugene, Oregon, making her writing personal and compelling. The haunts of this Oregon university location are familiar, adding elements of fear and suspense that are barely contained as the pages of the thrillers fly by.
"The author's expertise in creating deeply human characters is again much in evidence, together with a plot that keeps picking up speed as it hurtles to an ending that, quite literally, sent chills up and down my back and arms, and just as that was settling down, the ending had me again in goosebumps." --Spinetingler
Sellers has a big following in both the print and the electronic worlds and understands the value and importance of earned media. She's been blogging regularly since 2007, tweets frequently, has nearly 5,000 Facebook fans, is widely reviewed on Amazon and the web, and has successful print and eBook publishing programs.
For more information on the LJ Sellers' visit to Ashland, call Ashland Mystery at 541-552-0743 or visit http://www.ashlandmystery.com/. For more information on LJ Sellers, visit her website at http://www.ljsellers.com/, friend her on Facebook and follow her Twitter stream.
Ashland Mystery is sponsored by Friends of the Ashland Public Library, Standing Stone Brewing Company and Bookwagon New and Used Books. The Ashland Mystery Readers Group also produces the cable access television show Ashland Mystery, rvtv noir, airing Wednesdays at 7:30 pm on Cable Channel 15 in Jackson and Josephine Counties.
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