Printed: Mar 01, 2025 8:00 am
Newtown Girl’s Membership hosted an Writer Ebook Signing luncheon on Saturday, February 22, at Black Angus Grill in Danbury.
The visitor creator was Connecticut native Valerie Taylor, now residing in Shelton. She mentioned her newest cozy thriller e book, A Whale of a Homicide, the primary in a brand new sequence launched final 12 months.
The e book introduces readers to retro-music retailer proprietor Venus Bixby, who will do nearly something to be named to Chatham Crossing’s prestigious City Committee. However when she stumbles over a physique within the backyard the place her fiftieth birthday celebration is scheduled to be held, turning into each a suspect and a sleuth isn’t what Taylor’s new protagonist had in thoughts.
Taylor additionally talked about her trilogy What’s Not Stated — her debut novel, printed in September 2020 —and its follow-ups, What’s Not True (August 2021) and What’s Not Misplaced (February 2023), all cozy romances.
Her latest title, Switched at Demise, a Venus Bixby Ebook, is due in April.
Taylor is a member of the Unbiased Ebook Publishers Affiliation, CT Authors and Publishers Affiliation, Sisters in Crime, and the Girls’s Fiction Writers Affiliation. She has gained many awards, together with, not too long ago, 2023 and 2024 Literary Titan Gold Ebook Awards, 2024 Firebird Ebook Award, and Cozy Thriller and Summer time Seashore Learn honors.
Attendees stated they discovered the occasion to be pleasurable and interesting.
Valerie Taylor holds a replica of What’s Not Misplaced, her third in a trilogy of cozy mysteries printed throughout the final 5 years. The Shelton resident was hosted by Newtown Girl’s Membership on February 22. —photographs courtesy Judy Rosentel
Connecticut native Valerie Taylor (heart) was the visitor of honor throughout the February 22 Newtown Girl’s Membership Writer Ebook Signing occasion, introduced at Black Angus Grill in Danbury. She is joined on this photograph by occasion co-chairs Marie Sturdevant (left) and Marg Studley. —photographs courtesy Judy Rosentel
