Guess What?!

Just said "yes" to an offer for Books 3 and 4 of the Witchcraft series...is the world ready for more witchy mayhem and mystery?

[This is as Juliet Blackwell, of course.]

Don't despair, Arsenic and Old Paint is with the publishers!!

Also, I gave a little interview about Secondhand Spirits over here. Check it out!

Feeling the love on Facebook...have you become a fan yet?
Juliet Blackwell's page
Hailey Lind's page

Sometimes it's easier to update over there...

Geliebter der Kunstgeheimnis-Reihe

Feint of Art may be in print again, only it will be in German!

I used Babelfish -- so I am not sure if it is correct but Art Lover's Mystery Series might be on shelves in GERMAN soon.

Had some interest from a German publisher -- keep your fingers crossed.

For now, still working away at Book 4!

Tunnels under San Francisco's Chinatown???

I'm spending the summer touring for my new series, starting with the release of Secondhand Spirits on July 7.

But I'm also writing the fourth in the Art Lover's Mystery Series, Arsenic and Old Paint (due out in 2010 from Perseverance Press -- I think I'll even be doing the cover art for it myself!!!)

In Arsenic and Old Paint, Annie happens upon some tunnels that happen to be connected to an exclusive men-only club atop Nob Hill...were they once hooked up to Chinatown, and could they be hiding a terrible secret?

Most people say any tunnels under Chinatown in San Francisco are a product of overactive imaginations, though there are known tunnels in other cities like Portland, Oregon and Red Bluff, California.

But recently, I came across this fascinating clip concerning supposed tunnels under San Francisco's Chinatown. I was also treated to a tour of the Donaldina Cameron house, where there is an entrance to one of the tunnels used to hide girls and young women rescued from brothels and slavery.

Check it out!

Guest blogging on Killer Hobbies

I know I barely have enough time to post on THIS blog, but now I'm spreading myself around a little thinner...please check out my guest blog on www.killerhobbies.blogspot.com tomorrow, June 9. While you're there, scroll through the collection of posts by some clever handicrafters, who write about everything from knitting to miniature-making to murder and mayhem!

Checking in...

I am busy at work -- finishing the book 4 manuscript, drafting a second Juliet Blackwell manuscript, planning book signing events and in general preparing for the July 7th release date of Secondhand Spirits. That is the first in Juliet Blackwell's A Witchcraft Mystery series!

I will get some new posts up here VERY SOON.

In the meantime, my new blog, under the name Juliet Blackwell, is up and running.

I have also started fan pages for both Hailey Lind and Juliet Blackwell on Facebook!

Please check them all out -- become fans/friends and follow the blogs.

FBI top ten art crimes

•	Iraqi Looted and Stolen Artifacts
•	Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft
•	Theft of Caravaggio's Nativity with San Lorenzo and San Francesco
•	Theft of the Davidoff-Morini Stradivarius
•	The Van Gogh Museum Robbery
•	Theft of Cezanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise
•	Theft of the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Murals, Panels 3-A and 3-B
•	Theft from the Museu Chacara do Céu
•	Theft of Van Mieris's A Cavalier
•	Theft from E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich

FBI Art Squad -- It's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it!

Check this out -- from the website of the FBI art squad (and you thought I made them up!):

Art and cultural property crime - which includes theft, fraud, looting, and trafficking across state and international lines -- is a looming criminal enterprise with estimated losses running as high as $6 billion annually.

To recover these precious pieces--and to bring these criminals to justice--the FBI uses a dedicated Art Crime Team of 13 Special Agents to investigate, supported by three Special Trial Attorneys for prosecutions...and it mans the National Stolen Art File, a computerized index of reported stolen art and cultural properties for the use of law enforcement agencies across the world.

Please note: U.S. persons and organizations requiring access to the National Stolen Art File should contact their closest FBI Field Office; international organizations should contact their closest FBI Legal Attaché Office.uad

Arsenic and Old Paint -- the Fourth in the Series!

I'm so excited to announce that the fourth book in the Art Lover's Mystery series, Arsenic and Old Paint, will be published in 2010 by Perseverance Press. I know 2010 seems like a long time from now, but after all, we have to finish writing the book, and then our wonderful new publisher has to do all their publishing magic!

Arsenic and Old Paint finds Annie Kincaid on the trail of a forged, and stolen, piece of erotica that turns up at auction, and may have been used in an insurance scam. She winds up working in an exclusive men's club on Nob Hill, investigating tunnels under Chinatown, and tracking down a stolen 600-pound statue of Hermes with the dubious assistance of her new business partner, Michael-the-ex-art-thief, and her landlord Frank DeBenton-- who may hiding something from his own past.