Vinnie

Cover Reveal!

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– Coming soon in the spring of 2015, One Tough Cookie will be the next re-release from misterio press! What do you think of the cover?

Black Beans & Venom Book Launch!

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What a great event! January 8, 2015, at Bookshop Santa Cruz Julia Sinn, Event Coordinator (and also Vinnie’s Pure Power Yoga teacher) introduces her. Note the slides of Cuba running before the reading, accompanied by music from Omara Portuondo of Buena Vista Social Club fame. Amazing rum cake, strong enough to make you tight, was … Read more

Book Launch!

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Save the date! Vinnie will launch the print version of Black Beans & Venom, her seventh Carol Sabala mystery: Where: Bookshop Santa Cruz When: Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 7 p.m. Come by. See slides of Cuba, enjoy rum cake, and hear excerpts from the book.

Two Blogs on Cuba & the new book

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Today Vinnie writes about the connections between Black Beans & Venom, the seventh Carol Sabala mystery, and Cuba. Two different posts in two different places. For a bit about Santeria, check out parayournormal, and for a musical note, see misterio press. Vinnie in Cuba, 2010

Sister in Crime/Mystery Writers of America Holiday Party

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As a murder mystery writer, I leave some people feeling squeamish. I’ll never forget when I asked my neighbor, a trainer of paramedics, if he thought someone could be killed if plastered with enough nicotine patches. Writerly curiosity on my part, the kind any mystery writer would understand, but which caused my neighbor to regard … Read more

First Ever Giveaway & Reading

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December enters with a bang! Vinnie has two events on December first. Her Goodreads giveaway of Murder, Honey starts as a promotion for the rapidly approaching release of the seventh Carol Sabala mystery, Black Beans & Venom. (January 8th, Bookshop Santa Cruz) Also, her short story Disappearance has been published in phren-Z literary magazine. The other authors … Read more

Halloween, Hoodoo, & Dead Writers

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I love Halloween, a holiday that doesn’t belong to a particular religion, or even a particular culture. I love the changing leaves, slanted autumnal light, and getting into costume. I created some great costumes over the years, but here’s one of my favorites. My colleague (in white) and I collaborated for many years. Her AVID … Read more