Reckless Homicide: Five Tales of Death and Deception

“I have an annoying request,” said one of my readers, through Facebook.

This man buys my books and tells me he loves them. He is never annoying. So of course I wanted to know what this request was. I’m not naming him in case he wants to keep his privacy.

He wanted to buy “Om,” my Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine yoga murder story, in paperback so he could share it easily with his non-ereader friends.

Hot diggity dog! Ask and ye shall receive.

Now five of my mystery stories are available in a new collection called Reckless Homicide: Five Tales of Death and Deception. It includes the following five stories (Indian Time, Blood Diamonds, The War of the Janitors, Om, and Because) in one single e-book or paperback. Yay! My hard drive broke, and I’m working on primitive browsers, so click here to buy in the format of your choice: http://melissayuaninnes.com/books/reckless-homicide-five-tales-of-death-and-deception/.

Click to buy with Amazon UK link.
Click to buy with Amazon Canada link.

Thanks. You’re awesome!

“Spectacular.”
—Kris Nelscott, Edgar Award finalist, on ‘Because’

“When I read the end, chills ran down my spine.”
—Sarah Cortez, editor of Indian Country Noir, on ‘Indian Time’

“Sharply etched, emotionally haunting.”
–Kenneth Wishnia, Edgar and Anthony Award finalist, on ‘Blood Diamonds.’

Sleep. Art. $. Plus, I sold a Hope Sze short story!

Written by melissayuaninnes July 2, 2014 banking blood diamonds bloody words creative doctor & dog Hope Sze jessica sarrazin jewish noir Ken Wishnia podcast quirky carrot tangerine walkcast

You know how it feels when your kids don’t let you sleep and you want to die?

No? Well, count yourself lucky.

Matt and I are just barely starting to feel human again, but now we’re back to zombie-land. Which makes it very appropriate to post my second #walkcast (podcast recorded whilst walking)–recorded before school ended, but never posted, until NOW.

My first #walkcast is about multitasking: Secrets of Highly Efficient Writers Tip #1: Make Writing a Habit. We’re called the Creative Doctor & Dog because I generally walk with our dog, Roxy. Anastasia appears in later walkcasts too.

Secrets of Highly Efficient Writers Tip #2: Zzzzzzzzz

I was thinking of doing Walkcast Wednesdays. But, of course, that would require organization. However, I do now have a few nice pictures of me and our dog, Roxy.

My artist friend Jessica Sarrazin just had a show at the Quirky Carrot. She made this original, unique cyanotype skirt by hand-exposing flowers and leaves on a wraparound skirt. She explains it much better than me here, with pictures of the process.

Meanwhile, I sold my first Hope Sze short story to Jewish Noir, edited Ken Wishnia. Just for fun, I made up a cover already. I won’t be able to indie publish it for two years, but you know how I was anxious about losing money on going to Bloody Words? $250 helps a lot! (“Payment on acceptance, baby,” wrote Ken.) Plus Scene of the Crime Books already paid me for the books they sold, and I used Tangerine to photo deposit the cheque. Hooray!

Hey, if you open a brand new Tangerine account and deposit $250 before July 31st, you get a $50 bonus. And if you tell ’em I sent you (with my Orange Key: 22510100S1), I get $50 too! So far, they’re a vast improvement on HSBC, who closed my business bank account for no reason.

So I’ve got a little money, but our daughter kicked our behinds. How about you? Do you get to sleep?

JEALOUS.