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News from Members about new releases, contests and events.

Award-Winning Author Lois Winston’s New Release Drop Dead Ornaments

Congratulations to Lois Winston on her new release, Drop Dead Ornaments, the 7th book in her Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series. For more information, please visit www.loiswinston.com. Here is a short blurb for Drop Dead Ornaments:

Anastasia Pollack’s son Alex is dating Sophie Lambert, the new kid in town. For their community service project, the high school seniors have chosen to raise money for the county food bank. Anastasia taps her craft industry contacts to donate materials for the students to make Christmas ornaments they’ll sell at the town’s annual Holiday Crafts Fair.

At the fair Anastasia meets Sophie’s father, Shane Lambert, who strikes her as a man with secrets. She also notices a woman eavesdropping on their conversation. Later that evening when the woman turns up dead, Sophie’s father is arrested for her murder.

Alex and Sophie beg Anastasia to find the real killer, but Anastasia has had her fill of dead bodies. She’s also not convinced of Shane’s innocence. Besides, she’s promised younger son Nick she’ll stop risking her life. But how can she say no to Alex?

Mark Your Calendar for Our 10th Anniversary Conference!

Thanks to all the fabulous editors, agents, speakers, readers, writers and members who made this weekend’s event so wonderful and memorable! Already looking forward to our 10th Anniversary conference next year! Mark your dates: March 30-31, 2019 Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel Woodbridge, New Jersey #amwriting #amreading #booklover #conference #writer #writing #conference
Liberty States Fiction Writers Writers Conference

Editor/Agent Appointments are now open!

Editor/Agent Appointment registration is now open for registered conference attendees!

A list of attending editors and agents is available here:
https://www.libertystatesfictionwriters.com/editoragent-appointments/

There is an embedded spreadsheet of their interests on the page, but there is also a link to a pdf version on that page.

You may register for editor/agent appointments here:
https://www.libertystatesfictionwriters.com/editor-agent-appointments/

If you still haven’t registered for the conference you may register here:
https://www.libertystatesfictionwriters.com/create-something-magical-conference-registration/

Finally, you have any questions you can contact the Conference Chair/Committee here:
https://www.libertystatesfictionwriters.com/editoragent-appointment-question/

Hope to see you at the conference.

Looking forward to LSFW conference!

Will they be able to tolerate me? Will crowds part and leave a wide swath when I pass? Will I meet new people who will ask me why I have a white streak in my hair (FYI: homage to Rogue)? Looking forward to meeting kindred spirits who may/may not do some/all of the above.

The King of Plagues by Jonathan Maberry

Today’s Magical Read is The King of Plagues by Jonathan Maberry

Liberty States Fiction Writers World Premier!

Join Jonathan Maberry at the LSFW Conference to purchase his newest novel before public release!


Saturday 09:11 Hours: A blast rocks a London hospital and thousands are dead or injured… 10:09 Hours: Joe Ledger arrives on scene to investigate.  The horror is unlike anything he has ever seen.  Compelled by grief and rage, Joe rejoins the DMS and within hours is attacked by a hit-team of assassins and sent on a suicide mission into a viral hot zone during an Ebola outbreak.

Soon Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences  begin tearing down the veils of deception to uncover a vast and powerful secret society using weaponized versions of the Ten Plagues of Egypt to destabilize world economies and profit from the resulting chaos.  Millions will die unless Joe Ledger meets the this powerful new enemy on their own terms as he fights terror with terror.

Jonathan Maberry is the multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Patient Zero, the Pine Deep Trilogy, The Wolfman, Zombie CSU and They Bite.  His work for Marvel Comics includes the Punisher, Wolverine, DoomWar, Marvel Zombie Return and Black Panther.  His Joe Ledger series has been optioned for TV by Sony Pictures.

All of these titles and more will be available at the Liberty States Fiction Writers conference book fair on March 19th from 5:30-7:00pm.

Dance of the Rogue by Cris Anson

Today’s Magical Read is Dance of the Rogue by Cris Anson


Love-’em-and-leave-’em bad-boy Rolf has met his match, and she’s nothing like his usual dalliances. Older, plus-sized Fantine is a woman who embraces her curves and revels in her femininity. A weekend of pleasure that begins as a sizzling sexual distraction to both sparks a deeper need that neither was looking for, a connection neither is able to relinquish.

Fantine also brings Rolf a gift beyond measure-a link to the dark-eyed, dark-haired father he always suspected was his, not the blond-haired, blue-eyed sire of his brothers. Amid the joy of learning of his new family and a tempestuous relationship burgeoning with steamy sexuality and newfound emotions, a new side to Rolf emerges-the man he never thought he could be, and the lover of Fantine’s deepest fantasies.

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s magical read. All of these titles and more will be available at the Liberty States Fiction Writers conference book fair on March 19th from 5:30-7:00pm.

Hope in Love by J. Hali Steele

Today’s Magical Read is Hope in Love by J. Hali Steele


Book 1 in the Angels in Love series.The world is changing. Hope is fading. Darkness beckons. And one angel holds the answer.Tired of death, destruction and mankind’s race to ruination, Ramiel, archangel of hope, finds it harder and harder to care about those he’s meant to help. Now the Fates have decreed that Ramiel must mate with Yael, an exulted human.

On his shoulders rides the universe’s only hope for survival, but the ties that bind him to Yael force him to face his own unexpected reckoning.Yael, elevated to Heaven to live out her days in peace, recoils from the sadness and shadows of death in Ramiel’s eyes. Yet the need to ease the despair haunting him is stronger. During nights of searing sensuality, Yael and Ramiel light an erotic fire between them that will not be extinguished.As the combined forces of the heavens try to tear them apart, Ramiel must find a way to hold on to the love he finds with Yael or an end will come, so devastating that Heaven will drop to its knees.

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s magical read. All of these titles and more will be available at the Liberty States Fiction Writers conference book fair on March 19th from 5:30-7:00pm.