Our last author guest of season 1! Dianne Freeman has written an 8.5 book series and has a lot of insights about writing a series, Plus:

• Haunted hotels on Route 66
• How Claire sells a series in her store
• Sierra points out that Claire has not yet, yet again, read ACOTAR.

Dianne Freeman is a life-long book lover who left the world of corporate finance to pursue her passion for writing. After co-authoring the non-fiction book, Haunted Highway, The Spirits of Route 66, she realized her true love was fiction, historical mystery in particular. She also realized she didn’t like winter very much so now she and her husband pursue the endless summer by splitting their time between Michigan and Arizona. Her debut novel, A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder won an Agatha Award for Best Debut, a Lefty Award for Best First Novel, and was nominated for a Mary Higgins-Clark Award.

Books discussed in this episode:

• The Countess of Harleigh series by Dianne Freeman, especially her newest book, A Daughter’s Guide to Mothers and Murder
• George and Frances Roll the Dice (novella) by Dianne Freeman
• A Death on Corfu by Emily Sullivan
• Early Termination by Cindy Goyette
• This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead
• A Fashionably French Murder by Colleen Cambridge
• The Big Fix by Holly James
• The Will Trent series by Karin Slaughter
• Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
• Meet Me At Wonderland by Julia DeVillers