Susan Van Kirk
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The Haunting Scent of Chantilly
When I was growing up, my parents rented a room to a lady who was working at a store in our town. It was shortly after the end of World War II. Her name was Margaret, and she came from a tiny rural town twenty miles away. I imagine our city had more opportunities to...
Small Towns, Dark Secrets
This is the first of a series of posts about my upcoming mystery, A Death at Tippitt Pond. It’s no secret that I’m crazy about history. Currently, I’m moving away from cozy mysteries and into a nebulous genre that resides somewhere between cozy and traditional....
Recent News
Forensics and Mystery Writers April 2, 2019
April 2 1-3 p.m. at Carl Sandburg College. If you’re in the area and would like to take a 2-hour class in how mystery writers use forensics, this is your chance! Available in Sandburg’s outreach program for a mere $15. Sign up on the college website. I’ll be teaching it and asking you to match wits with the answers to forensic questions authors ask the experts. See you there.
You can read about the class here. Look under the Miscellaneous Course Heading: Carl Sandburg Leisure Classes
And the Publicity Begins …
Although A Death at Tippitt Pond comes out June 15, I’m already beginning to set up promotion for this mystery. Events, like book talks and signings, will be posted on the “Events” tab on the website front page. I’ll be doing either interviews or posts online at these sites:
6/12 at Writers Who Kill an interview with E.B. Davis
6/14 a guest post at Mysteristas blog
6/15 Book Launch location TBA
6/24 New Release Mondays at Judy Penz Sheluk’s website
TBA in June: A Blue Million Books post; Dru’s Book Musings guest blog; and Map Your Mystery (blog/interview); Jungle Red Writers post
7/11 Jungle Red Writers guest post
8/13 Wicked Cozy Writers guest post
and more to come …..
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About Me
Susan Van Kirk is a writer of short stories, mysteries, and a creative, non-fiction memoir about teaching. Her first mystery, "Three May Keep a Secret," was published by Five Star/Cengage in the fall of 2014. A novella about her detective, "The Locket: From the Casebook of TJ Sweeney," released in spring, 2016, only as an ebook. Five Star published the second novel in the series, "Marry in Haste," in the fall of 2016. The last novel of the trilogy, "Death Takes No Bribes," came out the following spring. Her new mystery, "A Death at Tippitt Pond," will be released June 15, 2019 from Encircle Publications. A high school and college teacher for forty-four years, she has always been interested in mysteries since she read the entire Sherlock Holmes series at an early age. It was love at first murder, and yes, her parents were worried.Currently, she is writing a new book which should be finished in the fall of 2017, and she spends her time between the small town of Monmouth, Illinois, and the large city of Phoenix, Arizona, where her three children and nine grandchildren live.
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