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  • Quarantined with Creativity

    Quarantined with Creativity

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    Frances Brown
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    2020 certainly has been a banner year, although I can’t quite pinpoint what the headline should say. I believe the universal theme has been CHANGE. Our world is radically different now than in most of our lifetimes. It’s difficult to imagine us ever really going back to the “old world,” the way things used to…

  • Get in the Mood for Halloween! #MFRWHooks #MFRWAuthor

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    Frances Brown
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    A woman, encased in glass, lives in the center of town, yet everyone pretends not to see. A phone call from Mom turns horrifyingly urgent. A sports car, a family inheritance bound up in memories. A graveyard of nameless souls. Haunting. This collection of short stories will send a chill, linger in memory, leave you…

  • The Seven Best Romantic Suspense Authors of Our Time

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    Frances Brown
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    According to the Romance Writers of America, romantic suspense is the most popular sub-genre for readers who love a love story. They want their hearts to melt a little, but they also want their spines to tingle or their skin to prickle. These readers want it all–a roller coaster ride of emotion big enough to…

  • Floundering My Way Through the Fog

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    Frances Brown
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      Is there anything more unsettling than not being able to see the path ahead of you clearly? Driving home on a foggy night when you mistakenly choose to take the back roads instead of the highway . . . Waking up to look out your window and realize you see . . . nothing…

  • Ghost Stories & Romance: Why the Combination is So Compelling

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    Frances Brown
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    While conversing with a saleswoman in my local Apple store recently, I shared the information that I wrote novels. “What kind of novels?” she asked. “They’re basically romances, but they are all set in haunted places,” I replied. Her eyes grew wide. “With ghosts, you mean?” “Yes. There’s always a ghost story intertwined with the…

  • Book Review: “The Bog People – Iron-Age Man Preserved” by P.V. Glob

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    Frances Brown
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    Unusual material and far from a new release, I just finished reading this title as part of the research for my upcoming novel, TimePeace. The book was originally published in 1969, and is not even available in digital format–I had to borrow it via inter-library loan. Outdated material, you say? Well, not when you consider…

  • Gathering Eerie Bits

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    Frances Brown
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    As many of you know, a badly broken right arm has waylaid my intention to complete and release the next Haunted Voices novel, TimePeace, at the end of September. Voice to text is not an option, since I use all Mac computers. DragonSpeak, the best dictation software program for authors, doesn’t play well with Mac.…

  • The Perfect Love Story…with Ghosts

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    Frances Brown
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    Those of you who know me at all know I am a huge fan of Nora Roberts (duh, I’d have to be dead not to be), but my absolute favorite series of hers is the Boonesboro Trilogy. When I say favorite, I mean, OBSESSIVE. Favorite. Love of all time. I’ve listened to all three audiobooks…

  • A Sneak Peek at ELECTRICITY – #MFRWHooks

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    Frances Brown
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    My new release, Electricity, is the latest installment in my Haunted Voices novels. This one was especially exciting to write, since I work where it is set: the location used to house a State Mental Asylum. There’s still one building that’s never been renovated, and it is a spooky place indeed.   Here’s a sneak…

  • The Final Countdown

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    Frances Brown
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    In three short days, my next Haunted Voices novel will go live on Amazon. I can’t believe this all happened so fast. After a loooong dry spell in my writing life, The Great Muse finally smiled on me again. Of course, it helped that I took a week’s vacation from my day job with the…