Matinicus FREE on Kindle for 3 Days!

Matinicus will be FREE on Kindle Friday, Saturday and Sunday (3/29,3/30, 3/31), to celebrate the release of Reese's Leap, Book Two in the Maine Island Mystery Series! So be sure to grab one, spread the word, and gift them to your friends!
More great news...The Reese's Leap Kickstarter campaign was a huge success, thanks to the support of so many of you. I'm pleased and humbled by your belief in me. Next on the list is the ad campaign. Time to kick that puppy into high gear!

Speaking of kicking things into gear, the Reese's Leap Book Launch takes place next Thursday, April 4, 7:00 p.m.at RiverRun Bookstore, Portsmouth, NH
( http://www.riverrunbookstore.com/ ), with an after party just up the street at the historic Portsmouth Athenæum ( http://portsmouthathenaeum.org/ ). Hope you can join us!

January Happenings

A happy and prosperous New Year to you all! Mine feels a bit overwhelming already, even just two days in, what with the looming launch of Reese's Leap (the second in my Maine-based Island Mystery Series) and a book appearance calendar that's beginning to fill up.

First, a note about a few cool awards I've been lucky enough to receive. Though it won't be officially announced 'til later this month, I thought I'd let you know that Matinicus, the first book in the Island Mystery Series, has won Honorable Mention in the 2012 New England Book Festival Awards. In addition, the terrific mystery blog, BloodWrites, has chosen it as one of its "Top Five Mystery Reads of 2012". Not a bad way to end 2012!

Now for a few January events. On Wednesday, January 16th, you'll find me moderating a panel of memoirists at the Portsmouth Athenaeum's second Writers' Forum in downtown Portsmouth, NH. Then on January 19th, I'll be signing books at the New England Book Festival in Boston (awards to follow that evening), and on the 26th you can find me, along with a few other local writers, at "The Local Buzz Coffee House & Wine Bar," as we read from our latest books and chat with audience members about our work. Details about all these events can be found on my Amazon.com Author page events listings: http://www.amazon.com/Darcy-Scott/e/B003U7UR1W/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Hope to see some of you there!

Taking the bad with the good

Friends are everything, don't you think? So many helped out at Thursday night's book launch at the Portsmouth Athenaeum, it'll take days to get through all the thank-yous. It was a glorious evening after a day of T-storms and about twice as many people came out as were expected. Lots of insightful questions; lots of books sold, which always helps the bottom line. This was my very first "reading" and boy was I nervous. It ran about half an hour which I think is typical. Now I'll set to honing a shorter one, for those readings I'll be doing in conjunction with other authors.

Only bummer was just that day I received another rejection of my ms of Matinicus--this a very lovely one from Minotaur Books (div. St. Martins Publishing). Hand signed, even. Not quite as pretty as the one I received from Unbridled Press for Hunter Huntress, but close. But, hey, that's okay. File it away and send out another; that's my modus operandi. You should see my rejections pile--gotta be a foot tall. Damn proud of that!

Now, as the excitement of the last few days starts to fade, I can finally get back to writing. See me smile. See me sigh. This, after all, is what it's all about.