Guest Author
December 2001
author of Veiled Threats
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Author bio:
This month's featured book giveaway:
Deborah Wessell, who writes under the name Deborah Donnelly, is a sea captain's daughter who grew up in Panama, Cape Cod, and points in between. She has a bachelor's degree in English literature from Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, and a master's degree in library science from the University of Washington, Seattle.
Deborah has been a university librarian, a corporate speechwriter, a nanny, and a science fiction writer. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's, Universe, and Fantasy & Science Fiction, as well as being translated into Italian, Portuguese, Polish and Lithuanian.
A long-time resident of Seattle, Deborah now lives in Boise, Idaho with her writer husband, Steven Bryan Bieler, and their two Welsh corgis. As a bloomingly healthy breast cancer survivor, she loves to roam the trails of the Cascade and Sawtooth Mountains, and to throw fabulous parties.
Veiled Threats is her first book, but more Carnegie Kincaid mysteries will be coming down the aisle.
Excerpt from Veiled Threats:
She thought she was planning a wedding.
What she got was... A WEDDING TO DIE FORWhen love is in the air, Carnegie Kincaid is not far behind. A wedding planner who works out of her Seattle houseboat, Carnegie makes magic- usually-with fractious families, brimming brides, and cantankerous caterers, to give loving couples the wedding they've always wanted. So why is her dream job turning into a perfect nightmare? It started when Carnegie agreed to plan the wedding of one of Seattle's most prominent families - who happen to be going through a high-stakes, headline-grabbing legal war. Before she can get her bride-to-be into just the right dress, a murder and a kidnapping plunge Carnegie into a mystery of extortion and violence. With a shadowy figure stalking her, a rich lawyer wooing her, and an annoying reporter pursuing her, Carnegie is putting all wedding plans on hold. In an explosion of sheer terror, she must hunt down a killer- till death do her part....
For a free autographed copy of Veiled Threats: This month there will be TWO winners - one copy will be given to a person chosen at random from all the emails Deborah receives during the month of December, AND one copy will be given to the person who sends Deborah the most outrageous wedding disaster story - which will then be reproduced on her website: www.deborahdonnelly.org. This will be fun!
The emails (and disasters) should be sent to Deborah via her website, which has a "contact the author" button.
Chapter One of Veiled Threats is on Deborah Donnelly's website: www.deborahdonnelly.org/book.html. Look for the link, "Click here for Chapter One in PDF format".
by Deborah Donnelly
Dell Publishing Company
ISBN: 0-440-23703-3
Copyright © 2002
Deborah Donnelly
Available January 2, 2002
PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY REVIEW
Veiled Threats
Deborah Donnelly. Dell, $5.99 (336p) ISBN 0-440-23703-3Reminiscent of Donna Andrews's Murder, with Peacocks, this zany mystery is a bubbly blend of farcical humor, romance and intrigue. Seattle-based wedding planner Carnegie Kincaid (named after robber baron Andrew Carnegie) has just landed the job that could propel her small business, Made in Heaven Wedding Designs, into the limelight. Nickie Parry's marriage to concert pianist Ray Ishigura promises to be the season's biggest high society wedding, and with Nickie's deep-pocketed, doting father footing the bill, it will likely put Carnegie on Easy Street and get her aging business partner and accountant, Eddie, off her back about their finances. But when someone dies in a suspicious car crash and the bride is kidnapped, the impending nuptials turn from a dream into a nightmare. Relying upon her sharp intuition and active imagination, Carnegie attempts to root out the culprit, and she finds an unlikely ally in Aaron Gold, the short, aggressive reporter who's been hounding the Parry family for weeks. First-time author Donnelly will beguile readers with her keen wit and mint descriptions (the white wedding gown is "a symbol of purity, like the safety seal on an aspirin bottle"), but it is her characters-such as Boris the Mad Russian Florist, who is "265 pounds of Slavic fury"-that make this a stellar debut. (Jan. 7)
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