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NONFICTION



The Agatha-Award Winning
HOW TO WRITE KILLER HISTORICAL MYSTERIES
THE ART AND ADVENTURE OF SLEUTHING THROUGH THE PAST

Everything you always wanted to know about writing historical mysteries. Practical advice from multi-published historical mystery author Kathy Lynn Emerson augmented by quotes, anecnotes, and tips from over forty other historical mystery writers, editors, reviewers, and booksellers. For readers as well as writers.




THE WRITER'S GUIDE TO EVERYDAY LIFE IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND
(revised and expanded version of the volume published by Writer's Digest Books in 1996)



MAKING HEADLINES: A BIOGRAPHY OF NELLIE BLY
the story of the nineteenth-century newspaper reporter and daredevil
for young readers ages 8-12




HISTORICAL MYSTERY SHORT STORIES



MURDERS AND OTHER CONFUSIONS
A collection of short stories from the world of the Face Down Mystery Series.
Lady Appleton and her friends solve a variety of crimes.




Short Story Collection ~ An e-book original



CRIMES AND CONFUSIONS
Five Historical Short Stories

These five short stories feature a variety of times, places, and people, from medieval England to Bangor, Maine in 1888. Characters from the Face Down Mystery Series appear in some, and in others the detectives are drawn from the Diana Spaulding Mystery Quartet. Titles include "The Reiving of Bonville Keep," "The Kenduskeag Killer," "The Tell-Tale Twinkle," "Any Means Short of Murder," and "The Curse of the Figure-Flinger."

This is an original e-book publication. It is the length of a novella—a short book of perhaps 150 pages if it were published in traditional format.

The free sampler offered has the opening pages of each of the short stories, to give you an idea of what’s in store for you in the collection.



For Middle Grades and Young Adult Readers



SHALLA

This historical novel for young readers is an e-book original offered for the first time at AWritersWork.com. Set in Colonial Rhode Island in the mid-seventeenth century, Shalla is the fictionalized story of a real person, one of the children of Rhode Island founder Samuel Gorton, known as "the New England firebrand." Because of his religious and political beliefs, Samuel Gorton was kicked out of Plimoth Plantations, Providence, and Pawtuxet before founding his own colony in what is now Rhode Island. He called it Shawomet, although it is now known as Warwick. In 1643, soldiers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony attacked Shawomet and captured Samuel Gorton, taking him to Boston for trial. No one knows exactly where his wife and children were during the time he was in prison there. This is the story of what might have happened to them, told through the eyes of one of his daughters, a girl with the remarkable name of Mahershallahashbaz Gorton. I call her Shalla.




JULIA'S MENDING
historical novel set in 1887 New York State





THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING BAGPIPES
set in Maine in 1988





THE MYSTERY OF HILLIARD'S CASTLE
set in Maine in 1982





MAKING HEADLINES: A BIOGRAPHY OF NELLIE BLY
the story of the nineteenth-century newspaper reporter and daredevil







SOMEDAY


a young adult romantic suspense novel
an e-book original
by
Kathy Lynn Emerson


"Someday, Kristy, if you stay
just as sweet and innocent as you are now,
you'll make some lucky guy a great wife."

That's what the boy Kristy Russell is crazy about tells her.

Insulted, sixteen-year-old Kristy embarks on a journey of
self-discovery, trying to figure out why he rejected her.
In the attempt, she comes to realize that her own self-esteem
is more important than what anyone else thinks of her.
But will that knowledge enable her to make the right choice
when a potentially life-altering decision is required of her?
It isn't just her own future she holds in her hands.


HISTORICAL MYSTERY NOVELS



DEADLIER THAN THE PEN (first in the Diana Spaulding Mystery Quartet)




FATAL AS A FALLEN WOMAN (second in the Diana Spaulding Mystery Quartet)
Diana tries to prove her mother innocent of her father's murder but there are shocking revelations along the way.



NO MORTAL REASON (third in the Diana Spaulding Mystery Quartet)
Diana's attempt to learn more about her mother's family leads her to one old murder and one very new one. Set in the Sullivan County Catskills of New York State in 1888.



LETHAL LEGEND (fourth in the Diana Spaulding Mystery Quartet)
Diana and Ben are back in Maine, getting ready for their wedding, when an old friend of Ben's asks for his help. On an island off the coast of Maine Diana finds archaeologists, deep sea divers, fights with fencing foils . . . and murder. And, oh, yes, this is the book where Diana's and Ben's mothers finally meet face to face.


BOOKS IN THE FACE DOWN SERIES
featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton



FACE DOWN IN THE MARROW-BONE PIE
BOOK ONE IN THE FACE DOWN MYSTERY SERIES



FACE DOWN UPON AN HERBAL
BOOK TWO IN THE FACE DOWN MYSTERY SERIES




FACE DOWN AMONG THE WINCHESTER GEESE
BOOK THREE IN THE FACE DOWN MYSTERY SERIES




FACE DOWN BENEATH THE ELEANOR CROSS
BOOK FOUR IN THE FACE DOWN MYSTERY SERIES




FACE DOWN UNDER THE WYCH ELM
BOOK FIVE IN THE FACE DOWN MYSTERY SERIES




FACE DOWN BEFORE REBEL HOOVES
BOOK SIX IN THE FACE DOWN MYSTERY SERIES



FACE DOWN ACROSS THE WESTERN SEA
BOOK SEVEN IN THE FACE DOWN MYSTERY SERIES



FACE DOWN BELOW THE BANQUETING HOUSE
BOOK EIGHT IN THE FACE DOWN MYSTERY SERIES



FACE DOWN BESIDE ST. ANNE'S WELL
BOOK NINE IN THE FACE DOWN SERIES



FACE DOWN O'ER THE BORDER
BOOK TEN IN THE FACE DOWN SERIES






HISTORICAL PARANORMAL ROMANCE



FIREBRAND
Today she'd be called a psychic. In the 17th century the word was "witch."
Follow Ellen Allyn's adventures in England and the New World and meet the
one man who accepts her for what she is, treasure-hunter Jamie Mainwaring.




CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE NOVELS



TRIED AND TRUE
Step back into the past at a living history center and fall in love the old fashioned way.



THE RAPUNZEL TRAP (original title: HEARTH, HOME, AND HOPE, written as Kaitlyn Gorton)
Like Rapunzel in the fairy tale, Hope Rowan can't escape her "tower" in the woods. Her struggle to overcome agoraphobia and make a future with a modern-day hero forces her to unearth the secrets of the past.



THE E-MAIL ORDER BRIDE (original title: SIGHT UNSEEN)
They met on the Internet. Could they build a life together in the real world?



FAMILY LIES (original title: SEPARATED SISTERS, written as Kaitlyn Gorton)
Separated as infants, twins reunite as adults, but someone's keeping secrets.



RELATIVE STRANGERS
Romance. Mystery. And a ghost.
"Top of the line reading for romance fans!" Romantic Times



THAT SPECIAL SMILE
What do you do when the boy you had a crush on in high school comes back into your life . . .
to ask for help with his teenaged daughter?
"Appealing." Romantic Times



CLOUD CASTES (originally written under the pseudonym Kaitlyn Gorton)
Deputy Sheriff Alex Moreau is suspicious of a beautiful stranger. She's lying about something . . . but what?
"Both plot and characterization keep us nicely entertained." Romantic Times




ECHOES AND ILLUSIONS
"The perfect blend of mystery, suspense, and the paranormal." The Talisman




LOVE THY NEIGHBOR
She just wants to start a new life. He can't forget the past.
"A rollicking good read!"Romantic Times




SLEEPWALKING BEAUTY
Her bodyguard tells himself he's just protecting her when he whisks her off to his mountain cabin,
but there's more between them than a job.
"Emerson has a talent for anticipation and passion." Affaire de Coeur





HISTORICAL ROMANTIC SUSPENSE



WINTER TAPESTRY
Written as a mystery, published as a romance, this historical novel has plenty of both.
"A delight from start to finish." Maine in Print



UNQUIET HEARTS
Early in the reign of Elizabeth I, there's a murder at Catsholme Manor . . .
and rumors of witchcraft in Gorditch Wood.



THE GREEN ROSE
A novel of star-crossed lovers, family secrets, spies, murder, and the theater in 1593
If you've read Winter Tapestry you may spot some familiar faces and places.





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