by Bethany Maines An Unfamiliar Sea officially launches this week! An Unfamiliar Sea is a classic mystery with two sleuths: 28-year-old Tish Yearly and her 79-year-old grandfather Tobias. Tish and Tobias navigate the rocky waters of living together in Tobias’s house on Orcas Island in the San Juan Island of Washington state, solve murders, and […]
by Bethany Maines Step One: Read the paper and/or listen to your weird uncle to learn about strange ways people have died recently. This usually involves blurting out something like “ooh, another dead body!” while snatching up the paper in the middle of the busy hour at a coffee shop. Bonus Points: If someone shuffles […]
by Bethany Maines Some years I’m more into the Christmas spirit than others. This year I started listening to Christmas music before Thanksgiving. I’ve squeezed in my favorite Christmas movies – White Christmas and Die Hard. I have decorated the mantle with every single Christmas card, including the one from the distant family friends that […]
by Bethany Maines This week (12/9 – 12/13) one of my short stories, Oh, Holy Night, is being serialized on Frolic – the site for all things romance. Oh, Holy Night is a Christmas romance involving bank robbery, coffee, and best friends. And while I’m always ecstatic to sell and share one of my stories, […]
by Bethany Maines Welcome to the day where no one is on-line, but everyone is at the grocery store. Hopefully, you are successfully home from such an excursion and have yet to launch into the holiday madness of bake, travel, eat, travel, flop face first onto the pile of laundry on your bed because you […]
by Bethany Maines Ahhhhhh… The soothing feeling of not being in a mad marketing scramble. Being in a post-book release time frame is both relaxing and a little bit of a let-down. The majority of sales happen around the book release week and after that, there’s just general marketing and gulp, waiting for reviews to […]
by Bethany Maines Have you ever seen one of those Looney Tunes characters just runs around screaming? That feels like me today. I mean, I’m trying to keep it contained, but… inside I look like this. My latest novel, The Second Shot, is now available to the public and that means that people will (hopefully) […]
by Bethany Maines A funny thing happens when you begin marketing book. Suddenly a project that has been intensely personal becomes public property. And even worse, once it’s public, the public begin to have opinions about it. (The nerve!) And as much as an author wants everyone to universally love our precious baby novel, not […]
by Bethany Maines The last few years have been extremely busy for me in terms of writing and that means that in 2020 all of you will be seeing the results. So I thought we should do a little re-cap of everything that’s happening. Here is an update on all things Bethany. THE SECOND SHOT- […]
by Bethany Maines Yesterday was the first day of Kindergarten for my daughter. She looked a little bit nervous, but mostly seemed to be taking it in stride. Many of the other parents weren’t. Someone kindly went around and passed out tissues. My husband and I made it through without tears, but we did feel […]