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A Sweet Diverse Reads Holiday Novella


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Earth�s Door is a brilliant blend of fantasy and sci-fi with masterful world-building and rich character development that will leave readers tearing through the pages. Breakout author PJ Dudek has written a captivating story that fans of Stranger Things, Terry Brooks, James Islington, and Brandon Sanderson are sure to love!


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A gripping time-travel tale set on a pirate ship in 1727 and in the gaslit streets of the Prohibition.


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A demon seeks to destroy all. Can she stop him?


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Two restless souls, one wild Christmas on the ranch�where sparks fly, and dreams ride free.


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From jilted bride to fake-fianc�e: falling for the bad boy was not part of the plan!


Monica Ferris

Monica Ferris

Blogging at Fresh Fiction

Monica Ferris | An Author’s Least-Favorite Question
August 8, 2016
You hear it at every Q and A: Where do you get your ideas? The question makes most authors cringe because the answer is silly  Read More...

Monica Ferris | Alias and Murderous Skills
February 22, 2016
I sometimes jest that if ever I get arrested I’m sure to be thought a professional criminal because I have so many aliases: Mary  Read More...

Monica Ferris | The Life of Connor Sullivan
February 4, 2015
I have a little talent that has proved itself useful over the years. I don’t need an alarm clock. Before I fall asleep, I  Read More...

Mary Monica Pulver (her maiden name) is an incidental Hoosier — Terre Haute, Indiana, had the hospital closest to her parents’ home in Marshall, Illinois. She spent the later part of her childhood and early adult life in Wisconsin, graduating from high school in Milwaukee. She was a journalist in the U.S. Navy for six and a half years (two in London), and later attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is married to a museum curator.

Mary Monica sold her first short story, “Pass the Word,” to Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, in 1983, and has since sold more than two dozen short stories to anthologies and magazines, including some in Germany, England, Italy and France. She has appeared in such anthologies as The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives, The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits, The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives, Shakespearean Mysteries, Royal Whodunnits, Unholy Orders, Murder Most Crafty, and Silence of the Loons.

Her first mystery novel, Murder at the War, appeared from St. Martin’s Press in 1987 and was nominated for an Anthony as Best First Novel. The Unforgiving Minutes and Ashes to Ashes followed in 1988; but Original Sin was sold to Walker, who also presented the fifth book, Show Stopper, in May of 1992. Berkley Diamond brought these mysteries out in paperback. They feature detective Peter Brichter – a cop one reviewer said was “a hardboiled sleuth who’s somehow landed in a cozy mystery”.

Berkley published six medieval mysteries Mary Monica wrote in collaboration with Gail Frazer under the pseudonym Margaret Frazer: The Novice’s Tale, The Servant’s Tale (nominated for an Edgar as Best Original Paperback of 1993), The Outlaw’s Tale, The Bishop’s Tale, The Boy’s Tale, and The Murderer’s Tale. The detective in the mysteries is a nun, Dame Frevisse, a niece by marriage of Thomas Chaucer, the legendary Geoffrey’s son. The stories take place in England in the 1430s. Gail continued the series alone.

In 1998 Mary Monica began writing a new series for Berkley featuring amateur needleworking sleuth Betsy Devonshire. Set in Excelsior, Minnesota, Crewel World came out in March and was followed by Framed in Lace, A Stitch in Time, Unraveled Sleeve, A Murderous Yarn, Hanging by A Thread, Cutwork, Crewel Yule, Embroidered Truths, Sins and Needles, Knitting Bones, Thai Die, Blackwork, Buttons and Bones, Threadbare, and And Then You Dye. The first six were paperback originals, then they became hardcovers followed by paperback editions. These light and traditional novels are written under the pseudonym Monica Ferris, and all have gone to multiple printings – the first one is in its eighteenth printing!

Mary Monica has taught courses on mystery writing to children at North Hennepin Community College, gifted children in District #287, and adults at one-evening seminars at Hennepin and Ramsey County libraries. She does lectures and signings, and has appeared on panels at mystery and science fiction conventions, including Bouchercon, Minicon, Diversicon, Magna Cum Murder, and Malice Domestic. She has spoken to stitchery guilds on local, state, and national levels. She has won a place on national and local best-seller lists, including USA Today and the independent mystery bookstore compilation. She is a member of Sisters in Crime (a national organization that promotes women who write mystery fiction), remains a paid speaker on the life of a mystery author, and is a volunteer for Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation, and in area public schools.

Mary Monica studies the medieval period as an amateur, and does needlework. She is a Lay Eucharistic Visitor and Lector at the Episcopal Church of St. George in Minneapolis. She collects and is often seen in exuberant hats.

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Series

A Needlecraft Mystery

Books:

Knit Your Own Murder, July 2017
Needlecraft #19
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Knit Your Own Murder, August 2016
Needlecraft Mystery #19
Hardcover / e-Book
Darned if You Do, February 2016
Needlecraft Mystery #18
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Drowning Spool, February 2015
Needlecraft Mystery #17
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Darned If You Do, February 2015
Needlecraft Mystery Series #18
Hardcover / e-Book
The Drowning Spool, February 2014
Needlecraft Mystery #17
Hardcover / e-Book
And Then You Dye, December 2012
Needlecraft Mystery #16
Hardcover / e-Book
Buttons And Bones, December 2011
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Threadbare, December 2011
A Needlecraft Mystery # 15
Hardcover / e-Book
Buttons And Bones, December 2010
Needlecraft Mystery #14
Hardcover / e-Book
Blackwork, October 2010
Needlecraft #13
Mass Market Paperback
Blackwork, October 2009
Needlecraft #13
Hardcover / e-Book
Thai Die, December 2008
A Needlecraft Mystery #12
Hardcover / e-Book
Knitting Bones, December 2007
Needlecraft Mystery #11
Hardcover / e-Book
Sins and Needles, July 2007
Paperback
Sins and Needles, June 2006
Needlecraft Mystery #10
Hardcover / e-Book
Crewel Yule, October 2005
Needlecraft Mysteries #8
Paperback / e-Book
Embroidered Truths, June 2005
Needlecraft Mysteries #9
Hardcover
Cutwork, January 2004
A Needlepoint #7
Paperback / e-Book
Hanging by a Thread, January 2003
Needlecraft Mystery #6
Paperback / e-Book
A Murderous Yarn, March 2002
Needlecraft Mystery #5
Paperback / e-Book
Unraveled Sleeve, July 2001
Needlecraft Mystery #4
Paperback / e-Book
A Stitch in Time, July 2000
Needlecraft Mystery #3
Paperback / e-Book
Framed in Lace, October 1999
Needlecraft Mystery #2
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Crewel World, March 1999
Needlecraft Mystery
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)

 

 

 

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