


MY BRUSH WITH GREATNESS
I'm Still Smiling By Tracy Clark When I was a kid, I often thought how cool it would be if Topps made author trading cards like they made all those ho-hum baseball ones. I would have loved to have opened a pack of Topps to find a small sheet of chewing gum and a cardboard card with Agatha...

RICHARD CASS GOES ROGUE
What’s New and Hot in Publishing? Gayle Lynds: In one word: Substack! Welcome to the lively, ever-changing world of best-selling, award-winning author Richard Cass. Known for his lyrical style, his mysteries and suspense novels are riveting. He’s also an experimenter, and today he’s going to...

ROGUE FLASH: Anniversary giveaway!
It’s May! That means the Rogues are celebrating their 7th anniversary, and their new newsletter format with new subscriber-only benefits. One benefit is your automatic entry into the drawing to win this pile o’ prizes: The Long March Home by Tosca Lee Breaking Creed by Alex Kava Mosaic by Gayle...

WHERE’S THE TWO-YEAR-OLD WHEN YOU NEED HIM?
By Chris Goff This has been a rough couple of weeks. On April 27, I was standing in my kitchen, atop the two-step ladder, when I stepped back to survey my handiwork of curated cabinets. Yes, stepped back. Yes, BAD MOVE! After one BIG step down and a failed attempt at some fancy footwork, I slammed...

Z.J. Czupor’s Mystery Minute: On Tour with Dead Writers
By Z.J. Czupor On Tour with Dead Writers is Z.J. Czupor's new installment on Rogue Women Writers. Guess the correct dead writer and be entered to win a free book. The Ohio Penitentiary opened in 1834 and was demolished in 1998 on a site that is now known as The Arena District in Columbus, Ohio....

HOW TO LIVE IN THE MOMENT
By Lisa Black I forgot my phone the other night. Perhaps that should be written as: The other night, I left the house and forgot my phone!!!...

ROGUE FLASH: Isabella Maldonado’s new book chosen for Amazon’s First Reads
The Rogues are excited that Isabella's new book A KILLER'S GAME just went live as an editor's pick and is being offered as an Amazon First Reads for the month of May! The editors noted: For fans of Squid Game and Criminal Minds, bestselling author Isabella Maldonado delivers the...

APRIL ROGUE ROUNDUP
It's a Rogue Roundup: See what we Rogues discovered, researched, and talked about in April... We started April off with every reader's favorite two words: free books. In a Rogue Flash, we announced a Goodreads giveaway for five copies of The Long March Home by our own Tosca Lee and her co-author...