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IndieReader Loves Funeral Daze
Thrilled by this advance review of Funeral Daze from IndieReader. Too much good stuff to summarize. Hope you'll check out the whole review, but here's their bottom line: "FUNERAL DAZE manages to be laugh-out-loud funny, heartwarmingly tender, and full of lively action...
More Funeral Daze Advance Reviews Coming In
More advance reviews are coming in for my new novel, Funeral Daze, available for preorder on Amazon for July 15. Funeral Daze is a hybrid humor-suspense novel featuring Box's ever-present blend of darkness and light. The folks at Readers' Favorite sure liked it. Five...
“Unmissable Reading,” Says First Advance Review for “Funeral Daze”
Excited about my new book, Funeral Daze, coming out July 15 and that the first advance review to come back calls it "Unmissable reading." While it has its dark side (my books always do), it's a definite change of pace from the dark and gritty Emily Calby Series. In...
Writing and Updating Books to Accommodate “Sensitivity” Concerns
Should classic books be updated to delete or change words or passages that are or could be construed as offensive? Related, should modern authors compose their works with an eye toward not offending anyone? These are difficult issues with no easy answers. You may have...
The Hiding Girl Named to “Best Female Detectives” List
Just learned that BestThrillers.com has named The Hiding Girl (Emily Calby Book 1) to its list of The Best Female Detective Books. What a humbling honor to have little Emily on the same list as Lisbeth Salander (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), and The Hiding Girl...
Named a Best Thriller of the Year 2020 by BestThrillers.com
Twelve-year-old Emily Calby was a good girl from a religious family in rural Georgia. She loved softball, her little sister and looking up words to get her allowance. Then two men came and murdered her family. Somehow Emily escaped. Only the killers know she survived. On the run in a fugue, she makes an unlikely ally in a ruthless former gang member who takes her in. Overwhelmed by guilt, she persuades him to train her to kill before setting out alone on a terrifying search for justice. Nothing will stop her—not cops or creeps, not even her own splintering mind. Through it all, Emily fights to hold onto hope and the girl she once knew, kept buried deep inside. A testament to the boundless limits of love, sacrifice and the will to survive, The Hiding Girl is the first book in the Emily Calby Series.