Nancy Means Wright

Hi al!

I want to welcome Nancy Means Wright to my blog today!

Biography

I'm the author of seventeen books of fiction, non fiction, and poetry; five contemporary mystery novels from St. Martin's Press, a novella, "Fire and Ice," in the Worldwide Library anthology, CRIMES OF PASSION, two children's mysteries, one of which, THE PEA SOUP POISONINGS, won the Agatha Award for Best '06 Children's / YA Novel. A sequel, THE GREAT CIRCUS TRAIN ROBBERY followed in '08 and was an Agatha finalist. Now I've a mystery series based on the turbulent life of passionate 18th-century feminist Mary Wollstonecraft: MIDNIGHT FIRES came out in 2010 from Perseverance Press in spring of 2010, followed by The Nighmare in 2011. Of course there are dozens of poems (including two chapbooks)and short stories in the literary mags--both mainstream (American Literary Review,et al.) and mystery (Level Best Books and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine). "The Outpost" and "Religious Wars" are now on Amazon Shorts. Vermont is my primary writing landscape! I love its mountains, valleys, autumn leaves, winter snows--even mud season, which inspired my first mystery. I live with my life partner, aerospace engineer Llyn Rice, and two huge demanding Maine Coon cats. Seven grandkids, all in Vermont, complete the scene. Please visit my website, www.nancymeanswright.com and say hello!

Book

When puppeteer Marion collapses during a performance of Sleeping Beauty, her friend Fay Hubbard will carry on. But Fay already has her hands full with three demanding foster children—Apple and Beets, who have a fractious jailbird father, and sixteen-year-old Chance, who has a crush on an older guy in a band called Ghouls. And now Marion’s husband Cedric seems more interested in a drop-dead-gorgeous French teacher than with any string puppets. And who is the mysterious Skull-man who warns of death if the show goes on with one of Marion’s offbeat endings? When an autopsy reveals that Marion had swallowed a dose of deadly crushed yew—and a friend finds her half-sister dangling from a rod like a marionette, a shocked Fay goes after the killers.

Please thank Nancy for joining us today. You can find the link to her new book at http://www.amazon.com/Broken-Strings-Nancy-Means-Wright/dp/0615743552/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1369744146&sr=8-3&keywords=nancy+means+wright

Check out her website and buy a book!

Keep Writing!

Jodie Pierce