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I woke up this morning to an alert that my latest book, The Millionaire's Wife, made Crime Magazine's "Books of Note." I'm very pleased and just had to share the news.

Here's the link: http://bit.ly/MsbaD1

Reprinted from my Publishers Marketplace blog:

Even though I now write fulltime as an author, I'm still a journo with ink in my blood, so I continue to periodically freelance for magazines as well as blog. My most recent freelanced magazine piece is in the June issue of The Social Media Monthly, a magazine based in Washington, D.C.

Here's a sampling of the article, titled "The Millionaire's Wife: A Case Study in Book Promotion":

Promoting a book in this new age of social media is light years away from when my first book, The Killing of Tupac Shakur, was released in 1997 compared with the March 2012 release of my latest true crime book, The Millionaire’s Wife. I was barely online when Tupac was released. The newspaper I reported for, the Las Vegas Sun, had just launched its website the year before. It was practically the Dark Ages.

That first brick-and-mortar book tour took me from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, from San Diego to St. Louis, and from New York City to Hartford. It was deejay Kurt Loder’s daily reports on MTV News about a controversial photo inside my Tupac book that skyrocketed it onto the Los Angeles Times’ bestseller list. That also kept it on Amazon’s Top 100 list for a year.

The fatal shooting in Las Vegas of the biggest rapper at the time literally put the Sun’s website on the map – shutting down the site at one point because of overload. Write-ups about my book in the same newspaper, not to mention a plum review in Publishers Weekly, also helped catapult sales, with the first print run of 25,000 copies selling out the first week.

But that was then and this is now. Today, it is an all-together different story. In the new-media world, authors no longer depend on newspaper, magazine and trade reviews; the possibilities for book publicity go far beyond newsprint. Authors are taking on their own promotions and book tours in large part because budgeting for tours, unless your name is John Grisham, is all but nonexistent at cash-conscious publishing houses that are competing for shrinking hard-copy royalties, especially with the growing market of self-published eBooks.

The magazine isn't online; to read the full story, a complimentary issue is available by clicking here.

Famed True Crime Writer Cathy Scott Living a Dream

Los Angeles, CA (SBWIRE) – As an artist, finding a “happy place” or somewhere that’s inspiring can sometimes be the make or break deal that lets the inner image of the final product show through in a way that drops jaws.

Crime author Cathy Scott is looking for the funds to renovate a house in the Cuyamaca/Laguna Mountains of California to be used as a writing resort for future and current authors. She’s already halfway there and looks for the rest with this IndieGogo campaign.

“It’s been a lifelong dream to live and write in the mountains, ever since spending time, as a child, on this very mountain. Each fall, my dad drove my siblings and me to pick crates of ripened grapes and apples on the very mountains where my cabin is located”.

Cathy is the second owner of the property, which she purchased a few years ago. The original owners, after no longer using it as a miner’s cabin, converted it to a weekend bunkhouse for their children and grandchildren.

The renovation began a few years ago when she had the property cleared of years of debris, trash and discarded items inside and out, the brush cleared and trees trimmed on two occasions, per fire district requirements. She pulled permits, added a new electrical box, and had stairs built from the driveway, along with having a wrap-around deck constructed late last year.

In addition, Cathy will be hosting writers’ meetings and workshops at the cabin to encourage and develop upcoming writers. It will also be home to her rescued dogs, all special-needs, from shelters and puppy mills, and an occasional hospice or foster dog, which she takes in one at a time.

For more information, you can visit Cathy’s IndieGoGo here: http://igg.me/at/WritersRetreat


Reprinted with permission from Horseback Magazine

Arrived today from the publisher. Excited to hold it in my hands.
Murder in Beverly Hills: The Mob-Style Execution of Susan Berman, Her Crime Boss Father, and the Deadly Secret She Took to Her Grave

I couldn't be happier that MURDER IN BEVERLY HILLS has been named a finalist in ForeWord Reviews' Books of the Year 2013. Just had to share it here. It means more people will learn about screenwriter Susan Berman's unsolved murder in 2000 and the latest investigation findings in her case