UPDATE 2/2012: Shadows Fall is no longer in print.
“The past has driven me back here,” Beth Gray says when she returns to Wilder with her little girl, fifteen years after being convicted of murder. Sheriff Les Kendall advises her to leave, but he doesn’t know Beth can’t escape her nightmares.
When Beth Gray was seventeen, a fourteen-year-old boy was shot in the woods near her home, and Beth was convicted of killing him. She spent six years in prison for a murder she didn’t commit.
Shadows Fall has been described many ways, as romantic mystery, psychological suspense, and even by Nancy Marple as “. . . an Americanized traditional English Country House mystery with a bitter underlying twist.”
Sample chapters of Shadows Fall are available on my website, and either the trade paperback edition or a Mobipocket PDA ebook may be obtained via the Shadows Fall Purchase Page.
P.S. 11-13-2004 — I’m an avid knitter myself, and while knitting plays a minor, background role in Shadows Fall, it plays a major role in my life.
can’t wait to read this.. especially after reading Snow Angels.. my comment ==> to follow..
Where can I get the rest of Shadows Fall. I have read Snow Angels on line and love your books but cannot find the book Shadows Fall at any of the bookstores. These are great books, why don’t you have them in the stores. I would like to buy Snow Angels also to keep and read again or share with my friends.
Maggie, thank you for your interest. Shadows Fall can be purchased from Mobipocket as an ebook, or from Amazon as a Kindle or as a new/used trade paperback. See the seller links on the purchase page linked above.
If you go into the new/used listings for it at Amazon, the copies listed under BWKBOOKS are directly from me — that’s my seller name there. Sometimes the listing expires and I have to relist it, or I de-list it because I can’t fill orders for a time. But until my printed copies run out I’ll keep it listed there.
Snow Angels is not available in print at this time.
I submitted both books to agents in the past, in the hopes of getting interest from conventional publishers, but no one that I contacted was interested. With Shadows Fall, I carefully chose about 50 agents to send query/sample packages to, so that’s a lot of non-interest. A writer can only do so much, and my time was limited then due to a heavy paying workload. My only option, once I gave up on finding an agent for Shadows Fall, was to leave it in a box in my attic or self-publish.
Self-publishing costs time, effort, and sometimes money up front. I’m a writer. I don’t really want to be a publisher. So after going that route with Shadows Fall, I only chose to provide Snow Angels as a free ebook. (It also got shopped to agents before I decided that.)
Unfortunately, because I’ve self-published, many agents and publishers are even less interested in my work now — and just when I finally have more time to write — so I can’t promise there will be any future novels for sale. We’ll see.
I have another complete novel now that I started submitting to agents, got discouraged after a while and put away. I need to keep trying with it, but it’s not easy for me. I’m not very good at marketing myself, I’m afraid, and I don’t deal as well as I need to with rejection.
It’s possible that all this time I’ve spend writing fiction in past years has been for naught, and that I would’ve been better off doing something else. (sigh) But I love to write fiction. It’s my thing.
Thank you very much for your kind comment and your interest in my stories.