To celebrate the launch of Miranda’s second novel, I’ve written a special short story: “The Memory Book”. I’m also looking forward to the paperback of CITY OF DRAGONS, which hits stores August 30th. In the meantime, you can check the progress by going to the CITY OF SECRETS page and exploring the sub-menu. My website will soon have all the bells and whistles I hope my readers have come to expect: a book trailer, video, photo gallery, sound track, inspirations and more. CITY OF SECRETS will be hitting stories on September 13th, and I’m busy writing the third Miranda (working title is CITY OF GHOSTS) while preparing for the launch. It’s hard to believe that July is almost upon us. It feels so good to be able to help, even a little. I’m proud of participating (my story is called “Coolie” and is set in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake) proud, too, of Amazon, for donating their share of the royalties: fully 100% of this book goes to help the people that need it. Even the cover is designed by the multi-talented Gar Anthony Harwood. The brainchild of author (and fellow Macavity nominee) Tim Hallinan, the book features 20 stories by 20 authors, many crime fiction favorites, with elegantly translated haikus interposed between the stories. The anthology is called SHAKEN: STORIES FROM JAPAN, and is currently available on Amazon for $3.99.
I’m also celebrating something else: a special effort by authors-an anthology of short stories-written and published and sold to raise money for Japan in the wake of its almost unimaginable calamity. I can still remember a few stanzas, so if you see me at a convention and ask me to recite-be forewarned! 😉 I’m deeply honored to have Miranda’s debut novel nominated … and am especially tickled because when I was a kid I used to be able to recite by heart “Macavity, The Mystery Cat” (the poem by T.S. The Macavity is as wonderful as it gets, a recognition of your work from some of the most astute readers in the community: members of Janet Rudolph’s Mystery Readers International. I received some wonderful news yesterday- CITY OF DRAGONS has been nominated for a Macavity, specifically the Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery Award! But I also hope CITY OF SECRETS helps you renew your commitment to a future where anti-Semitism and bigotry are truly relics of the distant past.Īs always, thanks for reading - and your support! I hope you find the story fast-paced and thrilling, of course, that you keep turning the pages and step side-by-side with Miranda on her harrowing journey through a familiar yet unfamiliar City by the Bay. It, and all other forms of racism, sexism, homophobia and intolerance, are the supreme tragedy of human existence.
On May 25th, opening day of the 1940 World’s Fair, she’s found nude on the stage she worked on, stabbed to death … a filthy, anti-Semitic epithet scrawled in blood on her white skin.ĬITY OF SECRETS exposes American anti-Semitism on many levels, from a domestic terror group that plotted to kill Jews in New York to the clubs and housing developments that denied them entry in San Francisco. She found herself working as a nude model at the World’s Fair, object of desire for the daily stream of men who paid 25 cents a piece to snap her photo. Like many pretty girls-in 19-those dreams crashed against reality.
Pandora was a girl with stars in her eyes, dreaming of her name on a Hollywood Marquee. Miranda Corbie-my hardboiled, broken idealist of a protagonist-is hired by a surprise client to investigate the murder of Pandora Blake, a girl she barely knew but who, like all the girls who worked Treasure Island’s Gayway in flesh shows, was a soul she’d sworn to protect. Themes of man’s inhumanity to man, themes that unfortunately still exist and are as relevant today as they were more than seventy years ago. This long-awaited sequel to CITY OF DRAGONS is a deeply felt, personal book, and it deals with themes that have haunted me for a long time.
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