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
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.
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
Vinnie’s story Blowback has just been published in Mysterical-E. Check out this noir-ish magazine.
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
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
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
Join Vinnie and 8 other writers for a free one-hour presentation by candlelight inside an echoey 100-year-old mausoleum in Santa Rosa. Just in time to set the mood for Halloween: 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 22, 2014. http://srmp.org/2014/09/mystery-writers-mausoleum/ Vinnie on Halloween 2005
Join me to celebrate the re-releases from misterio press MURDER, HONEY and ART, WINE & BULLETS MYSTERY COOKIES, DOOR PRIZE, RECIPES, BOOK SIGNING! I will be donating one dollar of every book sale to Second Harvest Food Bank. So, save the date: Chefworks Saturday, October 25, 2014 1-4 p.m 1527 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA
Santa Cruz mystery author Nancy Wood will pepper Vinnie with scintillating questions August 22, 2014, at Nancy Wood Books. Please visit and leave a comment to be entered in a drawing for a free copy of Art, Wine & Bullets. Drawing on August 29th.