Are you ready to party? Because on this very special episode of NETDRAG we're throwing a book launch party for Oklahoma mystery author Pat Browning, who's 2001 cozy mystery was given a new lease on life in September of 2008. A small independent mystery press saw it on Amazon and in a whirlwind Cinderella story, just two weeks later offered Pat a publishing contract for a new, second edition of the book. There was just one catch. Well, three, actually. The publisher would pick a new title, new cover art, and Pat would have to submit rewrites acceptable to the publisher in order to update the story. That was only last September and today, December 1st, is the official launch for Pat's book now re-titled "ABSINTHE OF MALICE." Join Pat, me, fellow authors Julia Buckley, Earl Staggs, and Rob Walker, and two of the loveliest ladies on the DorothyL mystery list group, Wendy Bartlett and Kaye Barley, as we celebrate Pat's good fortune, and her terrific "new" book!

http://www.authorsden.com/patbrowning

http://www.krillpress.com/

Besides possessing a modicum of talent for expressing yourself with the written word, anyone wanting to write a good first novel must also have the three "C's": Committment, Conviction, and Courage. But if the subject of the book you're writing introduces a fourth "C"...Controversy...it's also going to take guts to pull the whole thing off. Eugene writer L.J. Sellers' novel "The Sex Club" is the perfect example of how an author with obvious talent, and a great deal of commitment, conviction, and courage had the guts to tackle what is still one of the most controversial subjects in America today, and turn it into an exciting, suspenseful crime fiction novel that does not disappoint in either its mystery, or its message.

http://www.ljsellers.com

For many of us who write fiction, there seem to be two common dreams which we all, at one time or another, will expend a great deal of our time, energy, and fantasies on: Writing and publishing a novel, and writing and publishing novels as a full time occupation. Some of us do fulfill dream number one, and often times more than just once. But it is that elusive and ethereal second dream, that of writing full time and making a living from it, which either evades, or intimidates the vast majority of us. It is this rare breed of American writer, the full time novelist, that is the subject of this episode of NETDRAG. Meet an iconic master of American mystery, horror, and crime fiction, Robert W. Walker, and learn his secrets about how he's written forty novels in thirty years...many of them best sellers..., survived it all to tell his tale, and has rightfully earned the coveted title of "Full Time Author."

http://www.robertwalkerbooks.com/