#MysteryThriller

Hi, Everyone! Here it is, #GuestDayTuesday again, and I know you’re going to enjoy today’s featured author, Bill Engleson. Bill’s here to share his book, The Life of Gronsky, so let’s get started. Bill, take it away!

Thanks, Marcia!

BLURB:
Gilbert Gronsky has taken up writing late in life and decides in 2021 to spread his writerly wings and enter a three-day novel contest over the Labour Day Weekend. As he writes his ‘novella,’ a mystery, his life alternates between emerging mini-chapters, minor interruptions, his passion for the US Open tennis tournament, his lover, his friend, and, at one point, a shocker of a visitor in his garage.

In November, Gronsky fashions a more complex crime novel set in post-war Canada, 1946-48.

As he writes, he is occupied by a plethora of larger world actions including extreme weather events, COP 26, Haiti missionary kidnappings, love, food, and Covid.

And, of course, tennis wherever it pops up on television.

Review of The Life of Gronsky:

https://thebcreview.ca/2023/07/16/1846-dombrowski-engleson/

Author Bill Engleson

Bill Engleson is a retired social worker, pickleball aficionado, novelist, poet, humourist, essayist, and flash fictionista. He was raised in Nanaimo, lived for decades in New Westminster, and retired to Denman Island in 2003.

Bill is the author of two novels, Like a Child to Home, which received an Honourable Mention at the inaugural 2016 Whistler Independent Book Awards, and 2023’s The Life of Gronsky.

In 2016, Silver Bow Publishing released his second book, a collection of humorous literary essays entitled Confessions of an Inadvertently Gentrifying Soul.

Deep into Covid’s first and second wave, his poetry appeared in several anthologies including, The Vancouver Island Regional Library’s Alone but Not Alone – Poetry in Isolation; Drift, Poems and Poets from the Comox Valley; Planet Earth’s The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling! and the first and at least one subsequent edition of the Van Isle Poetry Collective.

In the past few years, his fiction/creative non-fiction has appeared in Island Writer Magazine and Geist.

Bill is currently writing a prequel to his first novel entitled Drawn Towards the Sun and a sequel to The Life of Gronsky tentatively dubbed, The Book of Gronsky.

You can Buy The Life of Gronsky HERE:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-life-of-gronsky-bill-engleson/1143136764

https://www.amazon.com/Books-Bill-Engleson/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ABill+Engleson

https://tertulia.com/book/the-life-of-gronsky-bill-engleson/9780228888413

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1350532

https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-life-of-gronsky

Please help me welcome Jaye Marie to The Write Stuff today. Jaye is sharing her thoughts on writing her newest DI Snow Mystery Thriller, Ghost of A Chance. I know you’re going to enjoy Jaye’s post, and as well as her latest book, which, by the way, is already available for pre-order. With all of that in mind, the floor is all yours, Jaye. Take it away!

The Making of Ghost of a Chance

Initially, I wanted to write something different this time.

David snow, my favourite detective from my first three books, had already twisted my arm to be the lead in what would be book #4 of this series, so at the beginning, I wasn’t sure how different this story could be.

I must admit, I was a little disappointed with Snow’s performance in CrossFire. I thought giving him a female antagonist would spice things up a bit. But they didn’t like each other, and no matter how I tried, I knew that plot line was doomed. I won’t reveal any spoilers, but I didn’t care about the ending either. A shocking admission, but I blame myself; I should have had more control over the situation. This is why I wanted this new book to be different.

At the end of CrossFire, David Snow was severely injured while apprehending a serial killer, putting him out of action for a while, so there had to be a few changes in the new story.

I needed to talk to him, find out how he is and what he thinks he could do next. I knew Snow hadn’t enjoyed being incapacitated and was still not ready to return to work, so talking to him might be a waste of time.

I didn’t think I should talk to his wife, Jane as it would somehow feel disloyal.

The news of her leaving reached my ears, causing alarm bells to clang. What was happening to my Snowman? Had he been damaged beyond repair? I thought it must be bad for Jane to abandon the ship.

Not wanting to upset the apple cart any more than it was, I waited to see what would happen. Would he withdraw even further, or would Jane leaving trigger a positive response?

I watched David struggle to pull himself together, battle through the pain and try to join the human race again.

Could he put the past behind him, or would the pain of his injury haunt him for the rest of his life?

I had faith in my Snowman, but no one was more surprised than me when I realised where the story was going. Where did that ghost come from?

Ghost of a Chance was a new angle for me, but I enjoyed writing it…

Blurb

A damaged detective, out of a job
A relationship on the rocks
What does the future hold for David Snow?
Just when he thought life couldn’t get any worse
A ghost with a grudge adds to his pain
A ghost hell bent on stopping him from rebuilding his life…

PreOrder Ghost of a Chance HERE or HERE

Author Jaye Marie

I came to writing rather late but have always loved reading books. For someone who loathes computers with a passion, and I suspect this is mutual, I have managed to master the beast well enough to publish our own books.

I enjoy reading many different genres, so was very surprised to discover a passion for detective thrillers. I have written four of them to date with more to follow.

I also enjoy running a joint website/blog with my writer sister, Anita Dawes, and meeting all the lovely people who drop in to say hello!

My other love is bonsai, and my small trees demand a lot of attention in the growing season, or they will die. Sometimes, it is just like having children!