Hearts Hazards Writing The Gay Cozy Mystery

Author : Josh Lanyon
Publisher : JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781649310484

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Hearts & Hazards: Writing the Gay Cozy Mystery by Josh Lanyon Pdf

Queer Clues & Cozy Moods Dive into the world of cozy mystery writing with a twist—murder and romance through the lens of LGBTQ+ characters—guided by the hand of a seasoned author who’s made her living in both mainstream and self-publishing for more than thirty years. Packed with analysis, writing exercises, checklists, tips, and tools, Hearts & Hazards: Writing the Gay Cozy Mystery offers more than just the ABCs of Character, Plot, Setting, Theme, and Dialogue. It delves deeper, exploring the nuances that will elevate your book from good to unforgettable, infusing your mysteries with the richness of LGBTQ+ life and love, all while ensuring your tales are wrapped in the warmth, wit, and intrigue cozy mystery readers adore. With a rare blend of industry insights, tailored advice, and practical strategies informed by an author who’s actually “been there, done that,” Hearts & Hazards: Writing the Gay Cozy Mystery addresses the unique challenges and opportunities of weaving LGBTQ+ themes into the cozy mystery genre, providing a roadmap to not only craft your story but also connect with an audience eager for representation.

Author : Josh Lanyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1649310498

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Hearts and Hazards by Josh Lanyon Pdf

Author : Robert Barr
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1412 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547003069

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75+ Bedtime Cosy Mystery Tales by Robert Barr Pdf

This unique Murder Mystery collection includes: _x000D_ The Mystery of the Five Hundred Diamonds_x000D_ The Siamese Twin of a Bomb-Thrower_x000D_ The Clue of the Silver Spoons_x000D_ Lord Chizelrigg's Missing Fortune_x000D_ The Absent-Minded Coterie_x000D_ The Ghost with the Club-Foot_x000D_ The Liberation of Wyoming Ed_x000D_ Lady Alicia's Emeralds_x000D_ The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs_x000D_ The Adventure of the Second Swag_x000D_ An Alpine Divorce _x000D_ Which Was The Murderer? _x000D_ A Dynamite Explosion _x000D_ An Electrical Slip _x000D_ The Vengeance of the Dead _x000D_ Over The Stelvio Pass _x000D_ The Hour and the Man _x000D_ "And the Rigour of the Game"_x000D_ The Woman of Stone _x000D_ The Chemistry of Anarchy_x000D_ The Fear of It _x000D_ The Metamorphoses of Johnson _x000D_ The Reclamation of Joe Hollends _x000D_ The Type-Written Letter _x000D_ A New Explosive _x000D_ The Great Pegram Mystery _x000D_ Playing With Marked Cards_x000D_ The Count's Apology_x000D_ Converted_x000D_ An Invitation_x000D_ The Long Ladder_x000D_ "Gentlemen: The King!"_x000D_ The Hour-Glass_x000D_ In a Steamer Chair_x000D_ Mrs. Tremain_x000D_ A Society for the Reformation of Poker Players_x000D_ The Terrible Experience of Plodkins_x000D_ A Case of Fever_x000D_ How the Captain Got His Steamer Out_x000D_ Miss McMillan_x000D_ "How Finley McGillis Held the Pier"_x000D_ How to Write a Short Story . . ._x000D_ Literary Article:_x000D_ "Canadian literature"_x000D_ Robert Barr (1849–1912) was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. His famous detective character Eugéne Valmont, fashioned after Sherlock Holmes, is said to be the inspiration behind Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot.

Author : Robert Barr
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1411 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547809210

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75+ BEDTIME COSY MYSTERY TALES - Premium Collection (Thriller Classics Series) by Robert Barr Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "75+ BEDTIME COSY MYSTERY TALES - Premium Collection (Thriller Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Mystery of the Five Hundred Diamonds The Siamese Twin of a Bomb-Thrower The Clue of the Silver Spoons Lord Chizelrigg's Missing Fortune The Absent-Minded Coterie The Ghost with the Club-Foot The Liberation of Wyoming Ed Lady Alicia's Emeralds The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs The Adventure of the Second Swag An Alpine Divorce Which Was The Murderer? A Dynamite Explosion An Electrical Slip The Vengeance of the Dead Over The Stelvio Pass The Hour and the Man "And the Rigour of the Game" The Woman of Stone The Chemistry of Anarchy The Fear of It The Metamorphoses of Johnson The Reclamation of Joe Hollends The Type-Written Letter A New Explosive The Great Pegram Mystery Playing With Marked Cards The Count's Apology Converted An Invitation The Long Ladder "Gentlemen: The King!" The Hour-Glass In a Steamer Chair Mrs. Tremain A Society for the Reformation of Poker Players The Terrible Experience of Plodkins A Case of Fever How the Captain Got His Steamer Out Miss McMillan "How Finley McGillis Held the Pier" How to Write a Short Story . . . Literary Article: "Canadian literature" Robert Barr (1849–1912) was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. His famous detective character Eugéne Valmont, fashioned after Sherlock Holmes, is said to be the inspiration behind Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot.

Author : Nathan Aldyne
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937384890

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Vermilion by Nathan Aldyne Pdf

Two misfit sleuths search for a street hustler’s killer in this mystery series debut first published in 1980 and set in Boston’s gay scene. Daniel Valentine is a gay bartender and former social worker. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight pal who works in real estate. They make an unconventional investigative duo—but sometimes unconventional is exactly what’s called for. When Billy Golacinsky, a teenage street hustler, is found dead on the lawn of a homophobic lawmaker, everyone wants the case swept under the rug. Everyone except Valentine and Lovelace. Now they’re combing through Boston’s gay scene—from bars to bath houses—in a time before AIDS, yet full of other dangers.

Author : Josh Lanyon
Publisher : JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937909079

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Fatal Shadows by Josh Lanyon Pdf

When a bookstore owner is accused of murdering his ex-lover, proving his innocence might lead a hard-nosed detective to a fatal attraction… Thirty-five-year-old gay bookseller Adrien English searches for love between the pages. As a sensitive intellectual with a heart condition, his dating life is gathering dust on the shelves. But when police name him the prime suspect in the brutal murder of his friend and employee, Adrien doesn't expect his best hope for romance to be assigned to the case… Detective Jake Riordan is hungry to climb the ranks. All he has to do for a promotion is nail the handsome bookstore owner for an obvious crime of passion. If only he could stop fantasizing about the suspect instead of the "normal" wife and family his career demands… As Riordan’s investigation heats up and the suspect insists on his innocence, the detective doubts both Adrien's guilt and his ability to resist the man's understated charms. Can they turn the crime into passion, or will a killer on the loose write The End?

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307957337

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Pdf

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804172707

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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

Author : Josh Lanyon
Publisher : JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649310217

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Bedknobs and Broomsticks by Josh Lanyon Pdf

A wickedly delightful witches’ brew of Mystery, Magic and Marriage! Mainly by Moonlight A gay high-society wedding. A stolen book of spells. A love-threatening lie. Can Cosmo Saville avoid a murder rap without revealing the truth of his supernatural heritage? I Buried a Witch Someone is killing San Francisco’s spell casters, and the only person Cosmo can turn to, the man who so recently swore to love and cherish him, isn’t taking his phone calls. Bell, Book and Scandal When John Galbraith realizes his own slightly wicked witch is once again using magic to play sleuth, all his old fears and doubts return to haunt him.

Author : Josh Lanyon
Publisher : JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945802652

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Mystery at the Masquerade: An M/M Cozy Mystery by Josh Lanyon Pdf

Love is in the Salt Sea Air--and So is Murder! Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, reigning Scrabble champion, and occasionally clueless owner of the village's only mystery bookstore, the Crow’s Nest, is both flattered and bemused when he’s invited to the annual Marauder’s Masquerade, the best and biggest social event of the season in the quaint seaside village of Pirate’s Cove, Rhode Island. The event is hosted by the wealthy Marguerite Bloodworth-Ainsley—a descendant of the famed pirate Tom Blood. Ellery doesn’t even know Mrs. Bloodworth-Ainsley—nor, it turns out—does Mrs. Bloodworth-Ainsley know him. But Marguerite’s son, Julian wants to know Ellery. Julian, handsome, rich and engaging, is a huge mystery buff. In fact, he’s bought quite a few books at the Crow’s Nest bookstore, but never quite worked up the nerve to ask Ellery out. As his relationship with Police Chief Carson seems to be dead in the water, Ellery is grateful for a little flattering attention from the village’s most eligible bachelor, but any hopes of romance hit the shoals when Julian is accused of murdering his mother’s unlikable second husband during the Masquerade's annual ghost hunt in the family’s spooky cemetery.

Author : Alice Pope
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781599634289

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2011 Novel And Short Story Writer's Market by Alice Pope Pdf

Now includes a subscription to NSSWM online (the fiction section of writersmarket.com). For 28 years, Novel & Short Story Writer's Market has been the only resource of its kind exclusively for fiction writers. Anyone who is writing novels and/or storiesâ€"whether romance or literary, horror or graphic novelâ€"needs this resource to help them prepare their submissions and sell their work. You'll have access to listings for over 1,100 book publishers, magazines, literary agents, writing contests and conferences, each containing current contact information, editorial needs, schedules and guidelines that save writers time and take the guesswork out of the submission process. NSSWM includes more than 100 pages of listings for literary journals alone and another 100 pages of book publishers (easily four times as many markets for fiction writers as Writer's Market offers). It also features over a 100 pages of original content: interviews with working editors and writers, how-tos on the craft of fiction, and articles on the business of getting published.

Author : Rhys Bowen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425222527

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Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen Pdf

THE FIRST ROYAL SPYNESS MYSTERY! The New York Times bestselling author of the Molly Murphy and Constable Evan Evans mysteries turns her attentions to “a feisty new heroine to delight a legion of Anglophile readers.”* London, 1932. Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the English throne, is flat broke. She's bolted Scotland, her greedy brother, and her fish-faced betrothed. London is a place where she'll experience freedom, learn life lessons aplenty, do a bit of spying for HRH—oh, and find a dead Frenchman in her tub. Now her new job is to clear her long family name...

Author : Donna Andrews
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429901277

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Murder With Peacocks by Donna Andrews Pdf

Three Weddings...And a Murder So far Meg Langslow's summer is not going swimmingly. Down in her small Virginia hometown, she's maid of honor at the nuptials of three loved ones--each of whom has dumped the planning in her capable hands. One bride is set on including a Native American herbal purification ceremony, while another wants live peacocks on the lawn. Only help from the town's drop-dead gorgeous hunk, disappointingly rumored to be gay, keeps Meg afloat in a sea of dotty relatives and outrageous neighbors. And, in whirl of summer parties and picnics, Southern hospitality is strained to the limit by an offensive newcomer who hints at skeletons in the guests' closets. But it seems this lady has offended one too many when she's found dead in suspicious circumstances, followed by a string of accidents--some fatal. Soon, level-headed Meg's to-do list extends from flower arrangements and bridal registries to catching a killer--before the next catered event is her own funeral...

Author : Ellen Hart
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250308436

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Twisted at the Root by Ellen Hart Pdf

Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Ellen Hart’s intimate storytelling returns in Twisted at the Root, where Hart’s latest mystery shows the importance of finding the truth. Everyone thought Rashad May and Gideon Wise were happily married. That is, until Rashad was convicted of his husband’s murder. Four years later, Rashad’s brother contacts Ray Lawless – Minnesota private investigator Jane Lawless’s father and the original defense attorney on the case – with potential evidence of a wrongful conviction. When the case is reopened, Jane and her father must work together to attain justice for a grieving widower. Who actually killed Gideon and why? There are suspects and motives galore, and Jane must discover the truth. She must also track down her missing brother, Peter, who was involved in the original trial, and who might be hiding secrets of his own.

Author : S.C. Wynne
Publisher : S.C. Wynne
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Last Gasp by S.C. Wynne Pdf

LGBT Cozy Mystery Kip O’Connor lives a simple life in the little seaside town of Pearl Bay. Unless it’s tourist season, things tend to be pretty peaceful. There is, however, one never-ending source of irritation in the form of Police Chief Merrick Dawson. Merrick is Kip’s older brother’s BFF, and nothing seems to bring Merrick more joy than nagging Kip about silly things. You’d think a Police Chief would have more important things to do than lecture Kip on parking tickets and picking up pet waste, but somehow Merrick always finds the time. When Kip decides to take an art class at the local community college, he’s annoyed to find Merrick has also enrolled in the course. The instructor takes a shine to Kip, and soon they become friends outside of class. Merrick warns Kip of the dangers of blurring those lines and befriending his teacher, but Kip is flattered by the attention. When his art teacher is found stabbed through the forehead with a palette knife, Kip is determined to figure out who killed his new friend. Merrick naturally thinks Kip getting involved in the investigation is a horrible idea, but when has Kip ever listened to that irksome, pig-headed Merrick Dawson?