Please put your hands together for the following KOD-members, who have good news to share:

On Tuesday, Veronica Forand was named one of ten semifinalists for the James Patterson Co-Author Competition. These semifinalists receive a $1,000 cash prize and 3 will move on to the final round where they will receive $2,500 and submit an outline for a chance to become James’ co-author. The name of Veronica’s entry was IN HER POCKET.

WILD MAN’S CURSE, the first novel in the new Wilds of the Bayou suspense series from Suzanne Johnson (writing as Susannah Sandlin) was released on Tuesday by Montlake Romance:

While on an early morning patrol in the swamps of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana wildlife agent Gentry Broussard spots a man leaving the home of voodoo priestess Eva Savoie—a man who bears a startling resemblance to his brother, whom Gentry thought he had killed during a drug raid three years earlier. Shaken, the agent enters Eva’s cabin and makes a bloody discovery: the old woman has been brutally murdered….

With no jurisdiction over the case, he’s forced to leave the investigation to the local sheriff, until Eva’s beautiful heir, Celestine, receives a series of gruesome threats. As Gentry’s involvement deepens and more victims turn up, can he untangle the secrets behind Eva’s murder and protect Celestine from the same fate? Or will an old family curse finally have its way?

You can find the two-headed Suzanne/Susannah monster at www.suzannejohnsonauthor.com

Sloan McBride has a new book coming out on Monday, April 11, 2016. It is book 2 in her Time Walker series, THE TREASURE, which is currently up for pre-order at various retailers. More information here: http://www.sloanmcbride.com/thetreasure.html

Beth Treadway has a teaser cover for her new series (coming later this year) up on Facebook. Her darling cover model, Vikkas Bhardwaj, has it on his Facebook page too, and will be promoting it/Beth with his other work at RT. You can see it on Vikkas’s page, here: https://www.facebook.com/vikkasb?fref=photo, and on Beth’s page, here: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=599070863584678&id=174548949370207

And Jenna Bennett finished annihilating typos in her most recent manuscript yesterday, and did the formatting and uploading. The book, UNCERTAIN TERMS, Savannah Martin mystery 12, is ready for release in a week and a half. More information here: www.jennabennett.com/uncertain-terms/

And that’s what we’ve got for the week. Keep on Writing!