MURDER AT LOFTUS HOUSE

[A Crimson Short]

 

Another Award.

I just received an email yesterday giving me the heads-up that in the forthcoming publication of competition results of the Summer 2015 New Apple Awards for Literary Excellence, Fallen Men will receive top Medalist Honours in the General Fiction category. It also won an IDB award in 2013. and will be published by Crimson cloak in the New Year.

Couple that with another couple of awards won this year and I would have to profess myself pleased.

The Miracle Ship won first place in the Religion Non-Fiction category of the New Apple 2015 Awards for excellence in independent writing. The Doom Murders has also won the New Apple Award for mystery fiction, a Bronze medal for Mystery fiction from Readers Favourite and an IDB award a year or so ago.

  

The Doom Murders is now published

Hi!

It's been a few (very busy) days since I last posted, exciting days, demanding days. Interesting things (for me) have been happening. The new cover for The Doom Murders is complete (It has been published on Inspector Sheehan's facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/inspectorsheehan

The new version (ebook and paperback) of The Doom Murders is also ready for publishing and should appear early next week.

And the little mystery game that I was asked to write to coincide with the launch of The Doom Murders, gave my publisher the idea to introduce a handy read for people in airports, doctor's waiting rooms, and other places where they can whip out their phone or ipad and while away time. She's calling them Crimson Shorts and my little murder game, Murder at Loftus House, is the first of them to be published. It is now available in ebook and paperback format at Amazon, Smashwords, CreateSpace, Crimson Cloak Publishing. .and other ebook outlets as well. That came as a very pleasant and surprising piece of news this morning. I did not expect that. See it here:

Murder at Loftus House: An Inspector Sheehan Mystery

Hi. The Doom Murders by Brian O'Hare is soon to be published as a paperback by Crimson Cloak Publishing. Carly McCracken, President and owner of the company, asked me the other day to prepare a 'mystery' competition to coincide with the book's launch and to introduce prospective readers to Detective Chief Inspector Jim Sheehan. i.e, Solve the Mystery. Win a Prize.

I have now sent her a scenario that sets up the scene, provides background information, introduces the characters/suspects in the mystery, and at the end of which the murder takes place. This information will be offered to the general public via Facebook, twitter and blogs. Each day thereafter further clues will be provided though a series of interviews with each of the suspects, one interview per day for five days.

At the end of the sixth day, readers will be asked to identify the murderer, explain what clues led them to this conclusion, and write in detail how they believe the murder was carried out. Answers will be sent to a specific email address rather than posted on FaceBook for others to see. The three best answers will be published a day or so after the competition closes and the winners will each receive a copy of the newly printed book.

This exercise will take place hopefully within the next few days. Keep an eye on this blogspot, as well as on twitter and facebook, for further news.

For more information go to Inspector Sheehan's FaceBook page: https://www.facebook.com/inspectorsheehan

Quite excited today.  My publisher has made no bones about her dislike for the ebook cover of The Doom Murders. The CCP editor, Veronica Castle, is now going through the final edit of the MS for publication, and I have just been introduced to Matic, one of CCPs very talented cover designers.  She now has some specifics about the book's themes, some scenes from it, and a couple of words from me.  I look forward to see what she is going to come up with.

I had a great blog party on the 10th and enjoyed interacting with my visitors. A big thank you to all who visited and left comments.

The RRBC committee have now judged the comments and they have listed my winners as follows:

*$10.00 Amazon Gift Card - Rhani D'Chae

*$5.00 ITunes Gift Card - Larry Hyatt

*One copy of the award winning, non-fiction paperback: The Miracle Ship - Jan Hawke

*One e-book copy of the award winning first book in the Inspector Sheehan Series: The Doom Murders - Bethany Turner

*One ebook copy of the award winning contemporary fiction novel: Fallen Men - Stevie Turner


The RRBC Congratulations to all of the winners. To those who have won copies of my books, I hope that reading of them will not be too dull and experience for you.