Hey Everybody! I had a blast at #KillerNashville and have a ton of pics to share. First up, though, is my amazing contest win. My Aug 2013 release from Five Star Publishing, DIME IF I KNOW, which is book 3 in my Cleopatra Jones series, won a Silver Falchion Award for Best Novel: Cozy/Traditional. I am delighted, awestruck, and humbled by this placement. Thank you to everyone who loves this story as much as I do!
Due to volunteering, critiquing, panels, and the contest win, I didn't get to too many other panels. I did catch the tail end of the New Author Panel and saw nearly all of the Using Forensic Psychology to Craft Believable Characters. I hope to get around to writing up my Forensic Psychology notes in a few days. Mostly what I have to offer are Guppy Lunch photos, so here you go! With many apologies to folks whose names I've missed!!!
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| Bill Hopkins sees from a different perspective |
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| Sharon Hopkins, Cyndi Pauwels, and Carolyn Mulford |
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| Bill Hopkins, Marjorie Brody, Debra Goldstein |
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| Carolyn, Michael, Sharon, Cyndi |
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| ..., Kaye George, center, Carolyn Mulford right |
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| Lisa Alber, ..., Michael Guillebeau, Lisa Wysocky, Amy Denton |
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| Cyndi Pauwels, Ken Vanderpool, Bill Hopkins |
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| Debra Goldstein and her buds, Kay Kendall and Marjorie Brody |
And more photos of KN folks...
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| Maggie with Clay Stafford, organizer and founder of KN |
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| Deni Dietz, acquiring editor at Five Star for my Dime If I Know |
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| Kay Tyler with Sharon Hopkins |
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| some of my registration buddies! |
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| Kay Tyler, Maggie, and Sharon Hopkins |
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| Maggie and Beth "Jaden" Terrell |
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| Maggie with Stacy Allen |
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| Stacy Allen gets the pic |
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| Don Bruns joins the band for a number! |
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And lastly, my two panels.
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| Building Characters panel: Frankie Bailey, Maggie, David Burnsworth, Neil R Howard, and panel leader Michael Sears |
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| Exploring the Human Condition. Mike Tabor, Maggie, Sallie Bissell, and Jamie Mason. I led this one. |
That's about it, picture-wise for me. It was so fabulous seeing everyone at the conference. Killer Nashville is one of my favorites!
Please join me for the release of my romantic suspense, ROUGH WATERS, this Friday, from 6 to 9 p.m. on Facebook. The addy is:
https://www.facebook.com/NewReleaseParty
The ebook is available for pre-order on Kindle and the print book is already available at Amazon and The Wild Rose Press. Buy links for Rough Waters:
Kindle
and
Print
Book
That's all. Hope to see everyone on Friday at the Virtual Launch Party. Lots of prizes offered!
Maggie Toussaint
www.maggietoussaint.com
Hi Maggie. I don't know who that lovely lady is in the picture with Debra Goldstein and Kay Kendall but it's not Linda Leszczuk. I know because Linda Leszczuk is the other me and that's not my face. *grin*
ReplyDeleteYikes! Sorry. I'll remove her name from the image. I think I must be face-blind. I know I can't keep names straight. Apologies, LD.
DeleteHuge, Huge, Huge congrats on the Silver Falchion!!! Great pix, too! Can I borrow (with attribution), the Guppy lunch ones for a First Draft article?
ReplyDeleteSure, Kaye! Use whichever pics you like. And I thank you for the congrats as well! So good to hang out with you at the conference.
DeleteCongrats, Maggie. I'm so excited for you!!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Nancy! I'm pretty darn excited myself! But I couldn't do any of this without friends like you to share the journey with.
DeleteWith Debra and Kay is Marjorie Brody--just found out.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kaye. I've updated the picture. You're a gem!
DeleteCongratulations on the release! And while I'm in a few of these pictures, that's not me in #3 :-/
ReplyDeleteI have the same problem with face recognition...such a struggle!
So nice to have met you!
Thank you, Cyndi. I'm hopeless about names and faces. I've changed the name in #3. Sorry to be such a doof.
DeleteAnd it was a pleasure to meet you as well. Best of luck with your new book!!!