Death Bed by Leigh Russell!!!

Title: Death Bed: A Detective Geraldine Steel Mystery (DI Geraldine Steel #4) 
Author: Leigh Russell 
Genre: Mystery/Detective 
Publication Date: February 25, 2014 
Publisher: Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins 
Event organized by: Literati Author Services, Inc.

Synopsis

Two brutal murders. No witnesses. The battered bodies of two young girls are discovered in North London, one shortly after the other. Desperate to avoid hysteria in the community, the police struggle to make a quick arrest before the deranged killer can strike again. Not having any luck, Detective Geraldine Steel, recently transferred to London, is called in to make sense of the grisly murders and the killer's unusual signature: he extracts two teeth from each of his victims. With the death toll mounting, Geraldine is running out of time as she hunts for the elusive killer the papers have dubbed "The Dentist."

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 Top Ten Pieces of Advice for aspiring authors

1. Your work probably won't be published, but there's a chance it will be read by millions.
2. George Orwell said: 'If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.'

3)  Self edit your work, and be ruthless.

4)  Rewrite every sentence until it is as good as it can be.

5)  Take a break from your writing and then edit it carefully again. And again.

6)  Show your manuscript to a few trusted readers. Choose  wisely.

7)  Find the money to pay a professional editor to read your manuscript.

8)  If you can't afford to pay proof readers, ask eagle-eyed friends to help.

9)  When sending to agents remember your letter is the first impression they have of your writing.

10) Read this entire speech Winston Churchill gave: 'Never give up, never give up, never give up.'

About the Author

LEIGH RUSSELL is described as “a brilliant talent” by Jeffery Deaver. CUT SHORT (2009) was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Award for Best First Novel. Road Closed (2010) was listed as a Top Read on Eurocrime. With Dead End (2011) Leigh’s detective Geraldine Steel was Number 1 on amazon kindle’s bestseller chart for female sleuths. Leigh Russell is the award-winning author of the Geraldine Steel and Ian Peterson mysteries. She is an English teacher who lives in the UK with her family.

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Guest Post by Leigh Russell, Author of Road Closed!!

Title: Road Closed (DI Geraldine Steel #2)
Author: Leigh Russell
Genre: Mystery/Detective
Publication Date: December 31, 2013
Publisher: Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins
Event organized by: Literati Author Services, Inc.


Synopsis
When a man dies in a gas explosion, the police suspect arson. The Murder Investigation Team is called in to examine the evidence, but the case takes on a new and terrible twist when a local villain is viciously attacked.
As the police inquiries lead from an expensive Harchester Hill estate to the local brothel, a witness dies in a hit-and-run. Was it coincidence … or cold-blooded murder? The Murder Investigation Team has problems of its own--and so does Geraldine Steel. A shocking revelation threatens her peace of mind as the investigation races toward its dramatic climax.
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Advice you have for aspiring writers.

If you are writing with the sole purpose of seeing your name in print, my advice to you is find something else to do. Writing can take over your life. As Eugene Ionesco said, 'A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of writing or thinking about writing.' If you have a passion for writing, what William McIlvanney calls 'an inexplicable compulsion', accept that your writing will probably never be seen unless you go to the trouble and expense of self-publishing. But there is a chance that your book will be a success, read by millions of people. It happened to me. It could happen to you. So work hard to make your manuscript as good as it possibly can be. Then put it away until it has left your mind completely. After this break, revise the manuscript before enlisting the services of a professional editor. Spend as much as you can paying for the best help you can afford. One of the benefits of having a mainstream publisher is that your publisher will provide you with the right editor for your work. Doing this for yourself will be more difficult, requiring some research which you can carry out while taking a break from writing. Although if you are anything like me, you will be writing a second book while taking a break from the first one!

About the Author

LEIGH RUSSELL is described as “a brilliant talent” by Jeffery Deaver. CUT SHORT (2009) was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Award for Best First Novel. Road Closed (2010) was listed as a Top Read on Eurocrime. With Dead End (2011) Leigh’s detective Geraldine Steel was Number 1 on amazon kindle’s bestseller chart for female sleuths. Leigh Russell is the award-winning author of the Geraldine Steel and Ian Peterson mysteries. She is an English teacher who lives in the UK with her family.

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Road Closed by Leigh Russell!!

 

Title: Road Closed (DI Geraldine Steel #2)
Author: Leigh Russell
Genre: Mystery/Detective
Publication Date: December 31, 2013
Publisher: Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins
Event organized by: Literati Author Services, Inc.

Synopsis
When a man dies in a gas explosion, the police suspect arson. The Murder Investigation Team is called in to examine the evidence, but the case takes on a new and terrible twist when a local villain is viciously attacked.
As the police inquiries lead from an expensive Harchester Hill estate to the local brothel, a witness dies in a hit-and- run. Was it coincidence … or cold-blooded murder? The Murder Investigation Team has problems of its own--and so does Geraldine Steel. A shocking revelation threatens her peace of mind as the investigation races toward its dramatic climax.

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About the Author

 LEIGH RUSSELL is described as “a brilliant talent” by Jeffery Deaver. CUT SHORT (2009) was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Award for Best First Novel. Road Closed (2010) was listed as a Top Read on Eurocrime. With Dead End (2011) Leigh’s detective Geraldine Steel was Number 1 on amazon kindle’s bestseller chart for female sleuths. Leigh Russell is the award-winning author of the Geraldine Steel and Ian Peterson mysteries. She is an English teacher who lives in the UK with her family.

Connect with the Author: Blog | Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads

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