Buy
a mystery and help feed a community!
By
Amanda Flower
Six years, twenty published books. It’s a
staggering statistic for any author, and it’s still hard to believe that it’s
mine. I’m living my version of a fairy tale. I’ve been lucky. I’ve been
blessed. I’ve worked incredibly hard. But I wouldn’t be where I am without the
kindness of others. My agent, my family, my friends, my editors, and my readers
have all been on this incredible journey with me, and in honor of all those
people, in honor of you, I’m giving back to a local food pantry with the
release of my twentieth novel, Prose and Cons. I hope you will join me!
Pre-order or purchase any edition of Prose and
Cons, the second novel in the
Magical Bookshop Mystery Series, between now and Tuesday, December 20,
2016, and I will donate $1 for every book sold to a local food pantry, The
Landing, located in Akron, Ohio.
My
brother and sister-in-law, Andrew and Nicole Flower, manage the Landing in the basement
of Akron Christian Reformed Church with a group of
dedicated volunteers. The food pantry feeds over sixty families in its
neighborhood on $200 a week.
The
Learned Owl will donate $1 to the Landing food pantry for
every copy of Prose and Cons it sells
before or at my book signing there on December 10th in addition to the $1 that
I will donating to the Landing for every copy of Prose and Cons sold by any bookseller by December 20th. For those
of you who cannot make the signing, the Learned Owl is also selling PERSONALIZED
AND SIGNED copies on the novel. They can ship anywhere.
PROSE AND CONS
RELEASE DECEMBER 6, 2016
Buy
a mystery and help feed a community! And
as always thank you for reading! I hope Prose and Cons brings
a smile to your face.
Enter
to win one of four $25 gift cards to Barnes and Nobel or Amazon. Winner’s
choice. Visit http://www.amandaflower.com/giveaways.html to enter!
*****
Amanda
Flower, a national bestselling and Agatha Award winning mystery author, started
her writing career in elementary school when she read a story she wrote to her
sixth grade class and had the class in stitches with her description of being
stuck on the top of a Ferris wheel. She knew at that moment she’d found her
calling of making people laugh with her words. She also writes mysteries as USA
Today bestselling author Isabella Alan. In addition to being an author, Amanda
is librarian in Northeast Ohio.
Julie's review of PROSE AND CONS:
Violet is in the middle of another murder! This time one of the women in the Red Inkers group is found dead on the back stairs of Charming Books. Violet’s shop neighbor Sadie is a suspect in the murder, and Violet is determined to prove that Sadie is not the murderer.
With suspects coming out of the woodwork Violet investigates during the busiest time of Cascade Springs year. The Food and Wine Festival is going on in the little village and provides an entertaining backdrop for this murder mystery.
Violet finds herself getting into several scrapes that Chief David Rainwater is not happy about. There are hints of something developing between the two, but Violet isn’t ready to go there yet. Being the caretaker of the magical tree in the bookstore causes Violet to pause and think before entering a relationship with the chief. He’s already asking questions about the tree. Plus Violet’s old flame Mayor Nathan Morton is still holding out hope for a rekindling of their relationship.
Prose and Cons is a fast read that kept me entertained throughout the entire reading. I kept thinking, “I’ll read one more chapter” and then I’d get to the end of the chapter and have to continue just to see what happened next. The mystery was solid and the murderer was definitely a surprise. Charming Books’ mascots Emerson the cat and Faulkner the crow were entertaining as always! Their antics had me laughing several times while reading. I love that the bookstore helps Violet and her grandmother place books into the hands of readers and also helps Violet solve the mystery (I loved the references to Edgar Allen Poe that were used), and I also love that Violet is embracing her role as caretaker. I look forward to the next installment of the Magical Bookshop Mystery series as there are still several things that need to be resolved in Violet’s life and I can’t wait to see how the bookstore helps her out.
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