Leighton Gage: Blood of the Wicked

Title: Blood of the Wicked
Author: Leighton Gage
Publisher: Soho Press
Hardcover: 324 pages
ISBN: 9781569474709
1. First off, congratulations on the big novel sale! Give us the elevator pitch. What’s your book about?
Blood of the Wicked is a mystery and, like most mysteries, it’s about murder. Like other mysteries, too, there are multiple suspects, multiple motives, even multiple killings. [...]

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Ron Riekki: U.P.

Title:  U.P.
Author:  Ron Riekki
Publisher: Ghost Road Press
Paperback: 236 pages
ISBN-10: 0979625564
ISBN-13: 978-0979625565
First off, congratulations on the big novel sale!  Give us the elevator pitch.  What’s your book about?
Hmm.  I’ll do what Lynn Hoffman did when you interviewed her, namely quote a review:   ”Heavy metal and the disenfranchised, partners in crime since the genre first scared the world [...]

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Jennie Bentley: Fatal Fixer-Upper

Title:  Fatal Fixer-Upper
Author:  Jennie Bentley
Publisher: Berkley
Paperback: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 0425224570
ISBN-13: 978-0425224571
1. First off, congratulations on the big novel sale! Give us the elevator pitch. What’s your book about?
Thanks for the congrats; I’m still pinching myself. And thanks for having me on The First Book Blog!
Here’s the 30-second pitch:
When New York textile designer Avery Baker inherits her aunt’s [...]

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