It’s the start of a new year and with it comes lots
of well-intentioned resolutions. Have you made your list of resolutions? I’ve
made mine—and already broken one of them, the one about passing up those yummy sweets
in the break room. Here it is the first day back to work after New Year’s Day,
and that resolution didn’t last twenty-four hours. Which makes me skeptical
that my resolution to lose at least ten pounds this year doesn’t stand a chance
thanks to a combination of our food editor’s baked goods and my lack of
willpower when it comes to anything with sugar. Or chocolate. Sigh!
But I do have other resolutions on my list, and one
of them is to carve out some time to read more for pleasure. I used to read at
least a book a week back when I commuted to work on the train, but that changed
when our offices moved to the suburbs and I had to trade the train for a car
and bumper-to-bumper New Jersey traffic. Then life really took a nosedive, and
I’ve been dividing any spare time I find between moonlighting to pay off
enormous debt and catching killers.
It’s a long story…
However, if you’re interested, the entire sordid
affair is documented in Assault With a
Deadly Glue Gun, the first book in the Anastasia Pollack Crafting
Mysteries, the series author Lois Winston writes about me. And for the month of
January the book, which received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist
and was nominated for a Book of the Year Award by ForeWord Reviews, is on sale on Kindle for only .99 cents.
Assault
With a Deadly Glue Gun
An Anastasia
Pollack Crafting Mystery, Book 1
When Anastasia
Pollack's husband permanently cashes in his chips at a roulette table in Vegas,
her comfortable middle-class life craps out. She's left with two teenage sons,
a mountain of debt, and her hateful, cane-wielding Communist mother-in-law. Not
to mention stunned disbelief over her late husband's secret gambling addiction,
and the loan shark who's demanding fifty thousand dollars.
Anastasia's job as
crafts editor for a magazine proves no respite when she discovers a dead body
glued to her office chair. The victim, fashion editor Marlys Vandenburg,
collected enemies and ex-lovers like Jimmy Choos on her ruthless climb to
editor-in-chief. But when evidence surfaces of an illicit affair between Marlys
and Anastasia's husband, Anastasia becomes the number one suspect.
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