Goodreads giveaway of SECRET

 I'm off this week at Left Coast Crime, but good things are brewing in my absence!

The folks at Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks are offering 15 copies of THE SECRET IN THE WALL in a Goodreads giveaway! To enter, go here, click on the "Enter Giveaway" button, and fill out the info.

Note - The clock is ticking: The giveaway ends on March 25, so don't dither too long!

Win a copy of the first in the Silver Rush mysteries or the most recent—your choice!

I tried something new with the guest post "A Rude Awakening to a Day in the Life of Inez Stannert," now live at Dru's Book Musings—writing Inez from first-person point of view (I, mine, etc.). My "comfort zone" in writing Inez is to use close third-person point of view (i.e., looking at the world through Inez's eyes, but still in third person (she, her, etc.).
Experimenting is a good thing, right?
If curiosity is not enough to make you click the link, there's also this:
I am giving away a copy of SILVER LIES (the first in the Silver Rush series) or WHAT GOLD BUYS (the newest, just-released fifth book)... All you have to do to enter the drawing is leave a comment with the post at Dru's by September 15.

So, what are you waiting for? Check it out and see what yanked Inez out of a deep slumber... a rude awakening indeed!

... a few minutes later: "What's that noise??"

Reviews come in and an ARC giveaway!

Well, I'm not being nearly as consistent as I had hoped, but I shall keep working on getting better at posting here, on my Silver Rush blog...

First, if you would like to get in the drawing for one of three ARCs (Advanced Reader Copies, otherwise known as "uncorrected proofs") of What Gold Buys... you have a week to enter the giveaway I'm hosting on Goodreads, and I encourage you to go for it! The odds are much better than striking silver in the Leadville mining district in 1879! :-) (Now don't ask me what those odds were, because I'm assuming here...)

So just click on the "Enter Giveaway" link below and good luck! But before you go... (keep reading below the widget)...

Goodreads Book Giveaway

What Gold Buys

by Ann Parker

Giveaway ends August 15, 2016.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter Giveaway

.... Reviews are popping up, ahead of publication. Since I consider them all valid data points (each reviewer approaches a book with different expectations, preferences, and so on, as do readers), I'm providing links to the three I've rounded up so far, along with a short pull-quote from each.

• Publishers Weekly starred review! (yes, that rates an exclamation point) "Emotionally and historically convincing."
•  Kirkus Reviews. "Better history than mystery, drawing the reader into the stunning beauty and harsh realities of life in 1880s Colorado."
• Historical Novel Society. "I haven’t read the first four but was so taken by Parker’s protagonist, Inez Stannert, that I’ll rectify that asap... I can’t wait for the sixth in the series." 

So please enter the Goodreads giveaway, if you are so inclined... and if you want to increase your chances of winning an uncorrected proof (which has hilarious goofs, such as Inez drawing her "Smooth revolver"... yes, a smooth move, but that should be *Smoot* ), sign up for my very occasional newsletter right here. I will be giving away ARCs to a couple lucky folks on this list, once the Goodreads giveaway is over on August 15.

And here, just for fun, is a couple of photos I took last year in the House with the Eye Museum in Leadville, the City in the Clouds...

The original stained glass "eye" from 1879. 

Guns, cards, and chips... note the "woman's purse gun" on the far right.