Archive for September 2023
I’m Buying a New Brunswick Book
In spite of the weather forecast, I plan to be at Dog Eared Books in Oromocto on Saturday, September 16, 2023, to chat about my books and see a few other NB authors. It’s Buy a Book by a New Brunswick Author Day!!!!
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I’ll be focusing on my Kaye Eliot Mystery Series and I’ll have some props! I’ll bring a ‘grinning tun’ from How Her Garden Grew …
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a ‘sundial’ from Something the Sundial Said …
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a piece of granite to represent a grinding stone from Land Between Furrows (no way I’ll lift a real grinding stone although we have one on our front doorstep)…
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and a bit of my own stained glass work to represent the stained glass in Stained Glass…
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I’ll also bring a cover painting or two so I can talk about creating a cover….
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Hope to see you there from 11:00 to 2:30 at Dog Eared Books (281 Restigouche Road in Oromocto). I also hope to see other local authors, including Chuck Bowie and Jordan Trethewey!
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All my best,
Jane
a Kaye Eliot Mystery — number 5 in the series
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The Kaye Eliot Mysteries are cozy, family-based and set in a small fictional community in Nova Scotia. So far, there are four in the series.
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In November, the fifth volume in the series will be released. Pareidolia continues the story of a family who loves solving mysteries together. ‘Pareidolia’ is the tendency to perceive a specific, meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern. Think of ‘the man in the moon.’ In this cozy mystery, Kaye and her family search for images in the marble floor tiles of a century-old country house, now used as a wedding venue.
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The floor tiles are clues to the location of a valuable hidden sculpture. Each tile reveals the next line in a story, told in the black and white patterns in the marble of the tile. If Kaye can find the sculpture, a beautiful wedding venue will be available for Kaye’s friend Clara, free of charge.
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You will love the various rooms in Marshall’s Elegant Weddings, the quirky folks who live in the community of Stone Ridge, and the members of the Eliot family, especially five-year-old Matthew. You may not love Kaye’s plan for her family to spend the entire week of March Break staring at black and white tiles. You may never again look at the floor in the same way.
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This week, I am working on the book cover painting for Pareidolia. It will show Clara and her husband-to-be, the stone-mason Daniel, sitting in the hall of Marshall’s Elegant Weddings, dreaming of their future together. All around them are the marble floor tiles, some showing clues to the mystery.
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All my best,
Jane
(a.k.a. Alexandra)
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