New Release and TV Interview

We're excited to announce the release of Misstep by Deborah Dee Harper. This cozy mystery is the first of her Road's End Series, and it's the first in our new Pens of Mystery line of books.

We're also excited to announce that Deborah will be interviewed on TV tonight, August 28. She'll appear on Atlanta Live, which broadcasts on WATC-TV 57 in Atlanta Monday-Friday, 7-8:30 PM.
You can livestream the program here.

For any WATC-TV viewers joining us - WELCOME! We're glad you're here. Feel free to look around, check out all our books, and drop us a note.

About Misstep:

"Winnie and Sadie are still fighting, and I'm still living in the strangest town on earth."

It’s December in Road’s End, Virginia, a tiny town long forgotten by anyone but its residents, where Colonel Hugh Foster and his wife, Melanie, have chosen to live—for better or worse. The jury’s still out on that one!

Road’s End is comprised entirely of senior citizens whose kids have grown and left for greener pastures. Hugh, Melanie, and Bristol (one of the few sane people in town) are faced with a crumbling church in desperate need of repair and renovation, a dwindling congregation of opinionated, ornery senior citizens, and a camel—yes, a camel.

And if that's not enough, the trio and the rest of the Road's End residents, are soon mired in danger and intrigue when a group of gun-toting drug dealers arrive in town, bent on killing the church handyman, and conspiring to ruin the doggonedest record-breaking blizzard the town has ever seen.

Poor drug dealers.

Available on Amazon and Kindle
and by request from most booksellers



About the Author

Deborah Dee Harper writes from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and specializes in humorous, inspirational Christian books for both children and adults. Her novel, Misstep, is the first book in her Road’s End series for adults (although children are welcome to read them as well). She’s also written a children’s adventure series, Laramie on the Lam, that is inspirational, humorous, and full of fun. (Many of Laramie’s fans are adults!)

Deb has three grown children—Derek (married to Renee), Dennae (married to Richie), and Darice (married to Ron). Between them, they’ve given her five lively grandsons—Dustin, Hunter, Cannon, Tyler, and Adam, and one beautiful granddaughter, Molly. Deb took an early retirement from a mid-sized school district in Michigan and began writing seriously, and wrote two newspaper columns, feature columns, greeting cards, essays, articles, poetry, and had stories included in multiple anthologies and Chicken Soup. She was a member of the Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writers Guild and took the Apprentice, Journeyman, and Craftsman classes. Her manuscript for Misstep was a finalist in the 2009 Operation First Novel competition.

Deb finds humor everywhere and believes God deliberately gave us a sense of humor to enjoy the truly funny or joyous or unbelievable or downright silly things in life. Humor not only gives us joy, it often changes our opinion of others (or ourselves) and helps bridge the gap between people of differing opinions. When she’s not writing, Deb enjoys photography, herb gardening, astronomy, and chasing the occasional grizzly bear for a picture.

She writes three blogs: 

www.deborahdeetales.blogspot.com,
www.deetrails.blogspot.com, and
www.laramieonthelam.blogspot.com

Her website is at www.deborahdeeharper.com. 

Call for Submissions: Pens of Mystery

Pix-N-Pens and Write Integrity Press are pleased to announce their newest line of books – Pens of Mystery. We are now accepting submissions for mystery novels between 60,000-90,000 words.

We are open to submissions for a wide range of mysteries, including:

• Cozies 
• Procedurals
• Contemporary PIs
• YA Mysteries

We especially like series of three or more books.

Our books are clean and wholesome, but they can be written with or without a gospel message.

We do not accept horror, paranormal, erotic, or pornographic manuscripts.

Please follow these guidelines for submission:

You may submit your proposals to EITHER (both is not necessary or preferred - we provide two in case of technical difficulty) of the following e-mail addresses. Please replace words in brackets with symbols and delete any spaces:

editor [at] writeintegrity [dot] com

or

tracyruckman [at] pixnpens [dot] com

In the body of your original e-mail to us, please include

• A brief cover letter, to introduce yourself and your book.  
• Full word count (using Word’s counter) if the manuscript is complete, or an estimated time of completion and anticipated word count.
• A short bio.
• Pitch - 30 words or less.
• Long blurb – 150-200 words (think back cover blurb).

Then attach to the email in Word format:

• The FIRST three chapters AND the LAST chapter. If the book has a prologue or epilogue, include those in addition to the required chapters.

Do NOT send full manuscripts unless we request them. Consideration will be given only to packages submitted as requested - full manuscripts that have not been requested will be discarded.

Please follow industry-standard formatting. This means:

• Pages should have 1" margins on all sides.
• Lines should be double-spaced.
• Font should be Times New Roman, size 12.
• Use black ink only - do not use color fonts.

We will try to reply promptly to all submissions, but please allow up to 90 days to hear from us. If you haven't heard from us by that time, please send a brief e-mail inquiry.

We do not accept submissions by snail mail.

Submissions to Pens of Mystery should not include the following:

• Incest of any kind.
• Murder of children; child abuse.
• Vampires, witches, werewolves, paranormals, aliens, future realities, and New Age psychics as protagonists.

These guidelines will also be posted on a separate page of our website - please check the links above for future reference.