Both SILVER ON THE ROAD and Gin & Tonic #4 go to their respective editors this week. Yes, I had two book deadlines the same month. No, that wasn’t ideal. Yes, I’m pretty much worn to a frazzle right now and because of that convinced that both are utter dreck and if I only had …
Monday oh Monday hoist your colors and let me see…. Read More »
To you, anyway. Â To me it’s marked in blood, coffee rings, and inky fingers. Gin & Tonic #4 is a Draft, as of Tuesday. It’s an ugly, messy draft, but it has a beginning, a middle, an ending, and a through-line, so there’s that, and I still have a few weeks to polish it to …
For those who’ve read the earlier Gin & Tonic books, I’m pleased to say that Agent Asuri is back. And she and Ginny are just as much fun to write in-conversation as ever. “I know that you would not interfere with a police investigation. And I know that you have at least enough sense to …
Look!  A Cover! Amateur sleuths Ginny Mallard and Teddy Tonica and their furry partners prove that twelve legs are better than four when it comes to solving a risky new case in the third novel from L. A. Kornetsky’s “entertaining†(Library Journal) Gin & Tonic mystery series. DOGHOUSE (coming July 2014) At her …
“Perhaps indeed I was, and perhaps I wasn’t and what’s dead to the wind and bones?†He spoke lightly, but there was a deepness to it that Izzy felt, the way she thought she’d feel loneliness or sorrow, an ache that stretched from her mouth to her ribs, a twisting line of darkness, hard and …
Look what came today! Â (shown with the US edition, for comparison). Â The Japanese translation of COLLARED (translated by Momoko Wani)! I really love the cover – the expression on the cat’s face is SO Mistress Penny-Drops, and the gentle touches on the shar-pei say “Georgie” to me so beautifully…. …
FIXED was mentioned in Publishers Weekly’s “Beyond Her Book” blog! “I sure like the opportunity to read mysteries that aren’t all shoot-’em-up or violent, so the calm and cerebral investigations L.A Kornetsky offers are refreshing. To my way of thinking, it’s a plus that Ginny’s dog and Tonica’s companion cat are quietly driving forces in …
Yesterday I spent mostly putting out various fires. Today, I’m gathering kindling. No doubt, by Monday, I’ll be putting out fires again. Somewhere in there I suppose is also carry water… Today is Team Kornetsky, working on the revisions to Gin & Tonic #3, which will NOT be called DOGHOUSE. Unless it is. It’s the …
I have the post-book-launch, post-excitement-of-the-AMA, post-Supernatural-premiere emotional drop. Or is it a droop? For those who missed it yesterday: the new Gin & Tonic book is out! we have a new book giveaway! (both print and digital) my possibly spoilery, slightly flailing commentaries on last night’s Supernatural and Person of Interest (via Tumblr) the aftermath of …
I’m a little scattered and busy today, celebrating the release of FIXED, but if you can track me down, you can try to shake me down for a copy of FIXED, the newest Gin & Tonic Investigations and a BONUS! copy of HEART OF FIRE! All you have to do is, well, find the meerkats …