Thank you, Kellie Dennis, of Book Cover by Design, for your help with our cover art. I love the cover we designed together and stand in awe of your expertise. That bloody peace sign was a stroke of genius, and you really did make Valerie’s eyes look like “the color of grapes with light shining through them.” Way to go! I look forward to creating many more lovely cover designs with you.
Janie Adams has become a valuable Beta reader for my books. Thank you, Janie, for reminding me that a phone call was only a dime in 1969, and for catching all those annoying typos. Give a hug to your adorable goats for us!
Maria Benzoni Lombardo lives on the same gorgeous ridge over the Genesee Valley that we do, and we have been friends for years. She is reading and reviewing my audio books, and recently offered to try her hand at Beta reading. I’m very glad she did. Maria, thanks for finding the errors I made. I so appreciate your “catches” and value your input.
Jenny Woodall writes under the pen name of Victoria Howard, and has become a wonderful author friend from “across the pond,” in the UK. After we got past our UK/USA variances in writing styles, we have helped each other with stories, genre classification, and more. Thank you for taking the time and for making the effort. Jenny’s best-selling romantic suspense books can be found on Amazon.
Dina Von Lowenkraft is a fellow Twilight Times Books author, a lucky American who lives in Belgium with her husband, children, and gorgeous show horses. She has a fascinating way of looking at my manuscripts, which highlights my glaring inconsistencies. Dina also diligently helps me tighten up the prose. It was especially useful to have someone read this story who knew nothing at all about Gus LeGarde before the reading. That lent a fresh and new approach to her analysis, and helped improve the story. Please check out her award-winning YA fantasy novel, Dragon Fire.
Robert Sells is a dear friend and fellow writer who also lives in the Genesee Valley, not far from me. We often do book signings together, which is a great way to catch up on family news. You can often find us at the Heron Hill Winery in Hammondsport, New York during the Keuka Lake Wine Trail events. Rob’s first novel, Return of the White Deer, is a fascinating adventure/fantasy/coming-of-age story set in 600AD. Rob’s newest book, Reap the Whirlwind, is an edge-of-your-seat, current-day thriller. Thanks, Rob, for reading and suggesting excellent changes in Spirit Me Away.
Thank you, Scott Slattery, photographer, engineer, and surprisingly great editor, for your intuitive suggestions and catches. From missing quotation marks, to referring to the British bands’ “early works” when all Gus KNEW was the “early works,” to switching “freshly mowed” to “freshly mown,” to reminding me that no one can scream with duct tape on their mouth…thank you very much.
When I wrote this book back in 2005, many of my friends from Kodak and family members helped out by reading my first (horrible) draft all those years ago. Heartfelt thanks to Dale Lazar, Bobbi Scranton, Jeanne Fielding, Sherrie Coleman, Suzanne Clark, Linda Slade, Don Harman, Jason Jarvis, and Katrina Hall.
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Aaron Paul Lazar is obsessed with writing. He's completed twenty-eight books to date, and has earned twenty literary book awards. He writes mysteries, suspense, love stories, and more. You'll usually find him writing his heart out in the early hours of the day - preferably in the dark, quiet hours when no one else is awake in his bustling household. Visit his website at www.lazarbooks.com to sign up for a free book and to learn about future deals.
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Book Series by Aaron Paul Lazar
(eBook, audiobook, and print)
LeGarde Mysteries (country mysteries set in the Finger Lakes)
Green Marble Mysteries (time travel to the fifties with a little boy ghost)
Tall Pines Mysteries (sensual mysteries set in the Adirondacks)
Paines Creek Beach Series (steamy love stories by the sea)
Bittersweet Hollow Series (romantic suspense involving kidnapping)
All Books by Aaron Paul Lazar
LEGARDE MYSTERIES
1. DOUBLE FORTÉ
2. UPSTAGED
3. MAZURKA
4. FIRESONG
5. TREMOLO: CRY OF THE LOON
6. DON’T LET THE WIND CATCH YOU
7. THE LIAR’S GALLERY
8. SPIRIT ME AWAY
9. UNDER THE ICE
10. LADY BLUES
11. VOODOO SUMMER
12 MURDER ON THE BREWSTER FLATS
THE LEGARDE MYSTERIES BOXED SET
THE YOUNG GUS LEGARDE MYSTERIES: A 1960S BOXED SET
The above is the order the books were written. If you’d like to read them in order of Gus’s age, here is the list:
LEGARDE MYSTERIES – in order of chronology
LEGARDE MYSTERIES – in order of chronology
TREMOLO: CRY OF THE LOON
DON’T LET THE WIND CATCH YOU
VOODOO SUMMER
SPIRIT ME AWAY
DOUBLE FORTÉ
UPSTAGED
MAZURKA
FIRESONG
THE LIAR’S GALLERY
UNDER THE ICE
LADY BLUES
MURDER ON THE BREWSTER FLATS
GREEN MARBLE MYSTERIES
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF BILLY MOORE (formerly Healey’s Cave)
TERROR COMES KNOCKING
FOR KEEPS
TALL PINES MYSTERIES
FOR THE BIRDS
ESSENTIALLY YOURS
SANCTUARY
BETRAYAL
TALL PINES BOOKS SET
PAINES CREEK BEACH, love stories
THE SEACREST
THE SEACROFT
THE SEADOG
BITTERSWEET HOLLOW, romantic suspense
DEVIL’S LAKE
DEVIL’S CREEK
DEVIL’S SPRING
THE ASYLUM (COMING SOON)
WRITING GUIDES
WRITE LIKE THE WIND, volume 1
WRITE LIKE THE WIND, volume 2
WRITE LIKE THE WIND, volume 3
Aaron Lazar’s Book Awards
The Seadog
2016 Winner, Best Indie Book Award, Romance
Devil’s Lake
2015 Finalist Readers’ Favorites Awards
2015 Semi-finalist in Kindle Book Review Awards
The Seacrest
2015 Semi-finalist in Kindle Book Review Awards
2014 Best Beach Book Festival WINNER, Romance category
2013 ForeWord Book Awards, Romance, FINALIST
Double Forté
2012 ForeWord BOTYA, Mystery, FINALIST
Tremolo: cry of the loon –
2013 Eric Hoffer Book Awards: Grand Prize Short List
2013 Eric Hoffer Book Awards: Honorable Mention, Eric Hoffer Legacy Fiction
2011 Global eBook Award Finalist in Historical Fiction Contemporary
2011 Preditors & Editors Readers C
hoice Award – 2nd place Mystery
2008 Yolanda Renée's Top Ten Books
2008 MYSHELF Top Ten Reads
For the Birds
2011 ForeWord Book Awards, FINALIST in Mystery
2012 Carolyn Howard-Johnson's Top 10 Reads
Essentially Yours
2013 EPIC Book Awards, FINALIST in Suspense
2013 Eric Hoffer Da Vinci Eye Award Finalist
Healey’s Cave
2012 EPIC Book Awards WINNER Best Paranormal
2011 Eric Hoffer Book Award, WINNER Best Book in Commercial Fiction
2011 Finalist for Allbooks Review Editor's Choice
2011 Winner of Carolyn Howard Johnson's 9th Annual Noble (not Noble!) Prize for Literature
2011 Finalists for Global EBook Awards
Terror Comes Knocking
2013 Global Ebook Awards, Paranormal – Bronze
For Keeps
2013 Semi Finalist in Kindle Book Review Book Awards, Mystery Category
Spirit Me Away
2014 AuthorsdB book cover contest, Silver medal.
Under the Ice
2015 Finalist in AuthorsdB Cover Award
Websites
www.lazarbooks.com
www.murderby4.blogspot.com
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