Guest Post by Janet Elizabeth Lynn!

Good Morning Friends and again, Welcome!

Today Janet shares with us a dream that came true....

Why do I write?  People often ask me that often. I respond, “It’s been a life long dream.”

I’m a Clinical Speech Pathologist. I’ve enjoyed my profession for 35 years and wouldn’t change it for the world. Yet in the back of my mind I ways wanted to write. One day I woke up and said to myself, “If you don’t try you’ll never know.” So I took classes, seminars, work shops, and started writing.

          At first I tried Romantic Comedy; I thought the novel was funny. But no one in my critique group laughed, I thought it was funny! So I tried Romance. I just tried writing, talking to published romance writers, but couldn’t get it right. I was frustrated; I knew I could do it. Then one Saturday I attended a seminar, Dean Koonz was speaking. A really nice guy with a wonderfully encouraging speech. So I approached him and told him how frustrated I was. He gave me the best advice, “Write what you enjoy reading.”

I went home and started writing, the results was in my first murder mystery, SOUTH OF THE PIER. It was like the flood gates opened. After nine murder, cozy and now NOIR mysteries, I can’t stop writing, ideas just seem to flow.

I decided I would continue writing until I run out of ideas, and that doesn’t seem to be happening any time soon. “Why not try different types of mysteries,” I thought. So I partnered with my husband, Will Zeilinger, a published author himself; and my wish came true, SLIVERS OF GLASS, a 1955 Noir mystery.

South of the Pier can be purchased at Amazon for Kindle!

Slivers of Glass can be purchased at Amazon in print and for Kindle!

What a beautiful story and testimony that when you follow your heart and God's leading, dreams can come true! Find out more about Janet and her books by visiting her website or blog.

And speaking of dreams coming true...don't forget about my novel, Tempered Dreams (book 2 in the Tempered series) which is also available at Amazon (Kindle), B&N (Nook) and Smashwords!


Hope you enjoyed this special Wednesday post. Tomorrow Janet will share some thoughts with us and check back Friday, Saturday and Sunday as she visits with us all week!

Until later...take care & God Bless!
PamT

#TuesdayTreasure: Guest Post by Janet Elizabeth Lyn

Good Morning!

Well I'm off to Bandera, TX this moring and the Silver Spur Guest Ranch, my home away from home for a much needed visit so it is with great pleasure and not much fan fare I welcome back to the blog Janet Elizabeth Lyn with something she treasures....

South of the Pier was my first mystery novel. As I plotted the story, things just weren’t coming together. I had outlines, character studies, main plot and sub plots, but nothing seem right. Frustrated, doubt crept in. Was this the right novel to write? Then my single sister received word that everything was in order for her to pickup her adopted baby…in Guatemala.

We had to be there in three days. Rushing to get thing together and fly south, I put the novel on the back burner hoping getting away would help me figure out what to do.

Nervous and excited we stepped off the plane anxious to see my new niece. At that moment the novel “hit me in the head”. The characters told me what had to happen. As we drove to Guatemala City all at once it became crystal clear how the story would unfold, with new characters, dialogue, arguments, and hand to hand battles. I felt like I was having stroke! That night at 9pm I started typing on my laptop. My fingers flew till 2am. Inspiration flooded my senses with each paragraph.

          The next morning, Jenny, 11 months old, was brought to the hotel by a loving foster family. Fifteen family members showed up to say good-bye with small gifts for her to take to America and her new life. They cried for 2 hours trying say good-bye.

Jenny was the most beautiful little girl in the world…and still is 8 years later. 

Wow what an inspirational story!

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South of the Pier is available at Amazon. 

Watch the book trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DznY4XBw-dY

Hope you enjoyed this Tuesday Treasure. Stay tuned for more Tuesday Treasure, Thursday Thoughts and Saturday Spotlights!

PamT

#SaturdaySpotlight: Janet Elizabeth Lyn & South of the Pier

Today we welcome Janet Elizabeth Lyn to the Spotlight.....

I was born in Queens, and raised in Long Island, New York until I was 12 years old. Then my family left the freezing winters and hurricanes to the warmth and casual life style of Los Angeles.

It has always been my dream to write novels. Finally, in 2001 I decided that if I don’t try I’ll never know. After many classes and seminars, much blood and sweat my first novel was published. South of the Pier in 2011. That was it, I can’t seem to stop writing and researching.

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Palmer Railton, a well known lobbyist, is brutally murdered on his doorstep resulting in a media frenzy. Meantime, his excited fiancée, Camille Brewster calls Connie Cane, her twin sister, to tell her of Palmer’s wedding proposal, the huge ruby engagement ring, and a dozen red roses. Connie, former CSI, must keep her devastated, cute-ass sister from getting killed after involving herself in the murder investigation.

Kidnapped, Camille tries to seduce her way to freedom but ends up stranded in a Guatemalan jail with an Interpol agent who holds the key to her freedom. Wounded during a gun battle, Connie tries to free her sister. The murderer is caught and arrested leaving Camille free to plan Palmer’s funeral with hi’s estranged grandmother. The final clue is in Connie’s hands when she realizes they have the wrong person in jail.

Excerpt

The moon was rising in the east. Detective Marcello Prado got out of his unmarked Mercury Marauder. The sweet ocean air filled his head. A crowd of onlookers had already gathered around the stark crime scene tape that encircled the Spanish style apartment building. He ducked under the tape and walked up the steps through the tropical plants and trees that crowded the courtyard. The Police floodlights and a trickling fountain made the front door of apartment THREE look like a Hollywood premiere.

“Whatcha got, Jim?”

“Well, he's still warm.”

The body of a man dressed in a yellow polo shirt and dark brown slacks laid face up on the parquet floor. Vacant black eyes stared at him through the glass top coffee table. Marcello scanned the room. He noticed a potted fichus tree on the floor across the man's legs. Blood had pooled under the table and flowed along the floor.

“Someone was in a hurry to get out of here.” Marcello spun around as a petite brunette popped up from behind a chair. “Hello, Detective.”

“Don’t just pop up like that, you startled me. Who are you?”

“Sorry. I'm CS Investigator Kyra Dennis. I found a footprint in the blood by the fireplace.”

“From the looks of things,” Jim continued, “the shooting must've happened about two to three hours ago. Two shots to the chest, front entry. One probably in the center of his heart. No blood trail, so it happened here.”

“Looks like Mr. Railton was a silent movie buff.”

Jim stood, “Are you kidding?”

“So you’re an old movie buff too?” Kyra added.

“They just don’t make them like they use to”. Jim crossed the room to examine a double poster display. "If these two posters are original, they are worth a small fortune at best. Metropolis, 1927, the movie all science fictions are based on. Look, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Blade Runner too.”

Marcello was listening carefully, “Can’t be a motive for robbery, they’re still here.”

“If, in fact, they are originals,” Jim added. “It could be.”

“I'll check on it.” Kyra held out the dead man's wallet. Detective Prado pulled an evidence bag out of his pocket.

She nodded toward the body, “The victim is a Palmer Railton - looks like he was ready to leave on a trip. Luggage and airline tickets to D.C. are on the sofa.”

Marcello figured her for a newbie with the crime lab. She was too precise and enthusiastic for a seasoned investigator.

“Someone didn't want him to leave.” Marcello looked at the body. “Can you do something with his eyes, Jim? I'm getting creeped out.”

“Looks like a nine millimeter,” Jim held up an empty shell casing. “I would have thought you’d be used to stuff like this, Prado.”

“Sorry to disappoint you, but I never get used to people hurting each other.”

Kyra went back to take photos of items scattered across the floor. There was a crumpled twenty dollar bill, an empty velvet ring box and one gaudy cloisonné earring.

"A woman was definitely here.” She shook her head as she examined the earring and placed it into its own evidence envelope. "Whoever it was, they have awful taste. I hope I can get some DNA. Clip-ons aren't as easy to get DNA as pierced earrings. But maybe I can lift a print.”

“Why do you women hang stuff from their ears in the first place?” Marcello asked. “I mean, whose idea was that?”

Kyra looked up from the viewfinder in her camera, “Probably some man. The same guy who came up with stilettos." She smiled, "Actually earrings are intended to frame a woman's face - y'know, to take a guy's attention away from our chest.”

“Detective,” their exchange was disturbed by a uniformed officer, accompanied by a beautiful brunette with sad eyes.

“This lady has something to say you may want to hear.”

South of the Pier is available at Amazon. 

Watch the book trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DznY4XBw-dY