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Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Readers who like traditional mysteries with lots of suspects and red herrings, and a nice surprise at the end. And readers who like the blues.

Q: What is the book about?
A: Sexy blonde blues-singer Maxx (real name: Elizabeth) Maxwell thinks she’s on the verge of realizing her dream: success for her band and a career doing what she’s always wanted. But then her dashing and talented guitar player, Jimmy Nashville, plunges to his death from his ninth-floor window. Maxx refuses to believe the police when they decide Jimmy killed himself. Played out against a backdrop of blues and Manhattan bar bands, her quest for his killer takes her deep into his past—and turns up a surprising number of suspects.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I play blues guitar and I led my own band for five years. We rehearsed and performed in New York City. I’m also a lifelong mystery fan and a former college English teacher.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: It’s cozy with a twist. It takes the cozy genre out of the parlor and into the streets, but it preserves the cozy’s traditional emphasis on strong plotting, a good puzzle, and minimal, if any, violence.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: Lots of people have told me that reading it sent them running for their blues CDs and made them remember how much they love that musical genre.

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Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: I wrote this book about my beloved sister because she is a unique woman and led such a fascinating life; I wrote it to appeal to adults and the mainstream market. It’s an epic love story/mystery/thriller that ––judging by reviews on Amazon.com––is appealing to men as well as women and more mature teens … people from all walks of life.

Q: What the book is about?
A: This story is part fiction (faction?), but based on the life of my beautiful older sister and her seven marriages. This is from the publisher’s description: ” … sixty-four years–1933 to 1997–of happiness and tragedy. Always searching for her first love and her childhood, the enchanting child/woman captivates many men along the way, each wealthier than the one before … each sending her scurrying back to her childhood home, 1106 Grand Boulevard, a trail of broken hearts in her wake.”

“1106 Grand Boulevard” is the story of passions that last a lifetime; of family love and betrayal; of spousal abuse and sadistic child abuse; a story of Billie Jean’s desperate search for happiness, self-worth, and maturity … a story of people needing people and people using people.”

Q: Why I am the best person to write this book?
A: Since I’ve always been a writer and am the sister of the main character in the book, I’m the only one who could do justice to her complex character … her exciting life.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?:
A: In most love stories the heroine is married only once; how unrealistic is that in today’s world? As award-winning author Frank Nappi said in his review: “The resiliency of Dravis’s heroine, Billie Jean, is indeed refreshing, wonderfully antithetical to the all too common saccharine, off-putting portrayal of many of fiction’s leading ladies.” Nappi is the author of the new sensational novel, The Legend of Mickey Tussler and Echoes from the Infantry.

Q: Is there anything else to know about this book?
A: The title of 1106 Grand Boulevard is the actual Ohio hometown address of the author and the main characters in the book. The cover photo is a picture of her late father, John D. Barger, at age 90, while the home viewed through the car window is 1106. Dravis took the photo when her father drove her and the book’s heroine past the home while they were visiting from California in the 1980s.

For more about 1106 Grand Boulevard and Dravis’s other novels, go to:
http://bettydravisauthor.googlepages.com/
http://tinyurl.com/2b3rko

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Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: The intended audience is all military personnel and their families, members of law enforcement at any level of government, and anyone who loves a good murder mystery with an exciting and surprising plot.

Q: What is the book about?
A: Becky Lippert and Bobby Garrett con young military men out of their life savings. The attractive and sexy Becky lures them into marrying her before they are deployed. Meanwhile Bobby submits the paperwork to have them declared Killed in Action. They embezzle the life insurance money from the government. Naval Criminal Investigative Services, along with Pat and Joe McKinney are brought in to try to stop these perpetrators from continuing on their vicious crime spree.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I am a former Navy Submariner and have seen first-hand this type of situation. The storyline is exaggerated for dramatic effect. It pains and angers me to see our young men and women in service exploited while they’re risking their lives to protect our freedoms.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: Most murder mysteries clearly define the good guys and the bad guys. In this story, you empathize with at least one of the perpetrators due to her upbringing and poor lot in life. Also, the good guys have a past that is tainted. They were not-so-good guys in A Lifetime of Vengeance, the predecessor to A Lifetime of Deception. You don’t need to read the previous story to get full reading pleasure from this book. They are distinctly different stories.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: A Lifetime of Deception is the second novel in the McKinney Brothers Murder Mystery series. The next in the series is tentatively called A Lifetime of Exposure where the McKinney Brothers attempt to track down a murderer who is also the purveyor of covertly obtained pornography.

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Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: The intended audience – mystery/suspense readers. All the better if the reader enjoys golf but certainly not necessary.

Q: What is the book about?
A: The story follows PGA tour leader, Reid Clark, down to the Masters where on the last day of the tournament he receives a death threat. He then has to deal with the angst of more threats as he goes to NY to prepare for and play in another tournament. Good food, cigars and a little romance fill the pages making the book a fun summer read.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: After a high school and college life of competitive sports, I know the ins and outs of many games. I was able to combine my passion for sports and mysteries to create Sudden Death, the first book in my Deadly Sports Mysteries series.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: While there are many non-fiction How To books on golf, there are very few mysteries. Sudden Death’s story is unique.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: I received some strong reviews from a few of the masters.

James Patterson said, “You like golf, you like murder mysteries – - then Sudden Death is your book!”

Clive Cussler said, “Pure fun, pure intrigue. The action never stops till a fascinating climax!”

The Foundation, the second book in my series is being edited now as is The Fix, a college football gambling novel that I’m writing along with ESPN Anchor, Ryan Burr.