Author Guest Post: Where Did the Day Go? by J. Lee

Author Guest Post: Where Did the Day Go? by J. Lee

Today’s guest post comes from Justin Lee, the author of The Hubley Case, winner of the New York City Big Book Award, and The Deadly Deal, a BestThrillers.com Book Awards winner. What’s it like to write and publish a book with a full-time job and young family? If my experience is any indication, the glib…

Author Guest Post: Combining James Bond and Indiana Jones Results in Codename Chimera 68 by Jake & Kate Persy

Author Guest Post: Combining James Bond and Indiana Jones Results in Codename Chimera 68 by Jake & Kate Persy

Today’s author guest post comes from Jake & Kate Persy, authors of the action mystery Codename Chimera 68. The main hero of our debut novel Codename Chimera 68 is private detective Kevin Kris. He is a master of kung fu and loves adventures, luxury cars, and brain twisters. So, let’s have fun and try to…

Author Guestpost: Your Checklist While Writing Great Mystery Novels

Author Guestpost: Your Checklist While Writing Great Mystery Novels

Today’s author guestpost comes from Lorna Adekaiyaoja, who wrote The Plea on Oath, her courtroom thriller debut novel. It was an interesting but tedious task plotting my new mystery and suspense novel The Plea on Oath, I have been inspired by great works of James Patterson, Lee Child, Laura Shapiro, and Ayobami Adebayo. James Patterson knew…

Author Guest Post: How One Author Keeps Her Mysteries Fresh By Patricia Fry
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Author Guest Post: How One Author Keeps Her Mysteries Fresh By Patricia Fry

Patricia Fry is the author of 66 books in her mystery series, 24 of them are cozy mysteries in the Klepto Cat Mystery series. This series features Rags, an ordinary cat with some extraordinary habits. He can’t keep his paws off of other people’s things. Some of the items he finds become clues in the…

Author Guest Post: The Enduring Mystery of the Knights Templar By James Becker
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Author Guest Post: The Enduring Mystery of the Knights Templar By James Becker

James Becker is the author of The Lost Treasure of the Templars thriller trilogy featuring the adventures of antiquarian bookseller Robin Jessop and encryption expert David Mallory. The books in the series are The Lost Treasure Of The Templars, The Templar Archive and coming to The Brotherhood Of The Skull (coming out early next year). This guest…

Author Guest Post: Why Spies Lie by DS Kane
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Author Guest Post: Why Spies Lie by DS Kane

D.S. Kane is the pseudonym under which David Spiselman writes his spy novels. He is a former intelligence operative who had his cover blown at some point, a fact which made him cautiously switch gears from spy work to consultant work and later to writing books. D.S. Kane is now crafting clever spy fiction that exposes the way…

Author Guest Post: On Creating A New Series at Age 64
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Author Guest Post: On Creating A New Series at Age 64

With this post, I am introducing a new feature on Mystery Sequels: author guest posts. These posts are exclusively written by mystery book authors and they focus on the art of writing, their creative process, their books, or any other relevant topic which allows us to learn more about our favorite mystery writers without the…