250 Smashwords Crime Fiction Authors Featured at Bouchercon 2015

Two hundred and fifty Smashwords authors will be featured this week at Bouchercon 2015 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Bouchercon, now in its 46th year, is the world's largest mystery convention.  It's expected to draw 1,500 readers, writers, publishers, editors, agents, booksellers and other lovers of crime fiction.

Included in the conference registration bags will be a Smashwords thumb drive.  On that drive will be 430 ebooks from 250 Smashwords authors.  The drive features breakout indies, New York Times bestsellers, USA Today bestsellers, hybrid authors that publish both indie and traditionally, and future breakout authors.

Invited authors were selected from among Smashwords crime fiction bestsellers, Bouchercon attendees and members of Sisters in Crime.

We've done similar drive promotions for RT Booklovers, RWA and Penned Con, and they're always a hit with readers and writers alike.  It's a great chance for the industry's most enthusiastic crime fiction fans to discover their new favorite authors.

Jim Azevedo, Smashwords marketing director, will also be on hand at the conference manning a Smashwords table and participating in workshops. 

On October 8 at 11:30am, Jim is on the "Changing Face of Publishing for Writers & Readers" panel at the Marriott, room University A/B. Immediately following the panel, Jim will be right down the hall, in room University C, presenting a workshop titled "The Secrets of Best Selling Indie Authors." In this workshop, he'll share best practices of the bestselling indie ebook authors. Consider adding Jim's session to your schedule via the excellent Bouchercon app, which you can get here: http://bouchercon2015.org/bouchercon-app/

Here's a summary of the participating authors and their books.

Author (click to view profile) - Participating title(s) separated by semicolons.

A. J. Davidson -  An Evil Shadow; Churchill's Queen; Paper Ghosts

Al Rennie -  Clearwater Ambush; Clearwater Diaries; Clearwater Journals

Albert Simon -  Coachella Valley Traffic Jam; For Sale in Palm Springs; Mystery on the Tramway

Amy Saunders - Auf'd (The Belinda & Bennett Mysteries, Book Two); Cliffhanger (The Belinda & Bennett Mysteries, Book One)

Angela Crider Neary -  Li'l Tom and the Pussyfoot Detective Bureau

Anna Castle -  - Black & White & Dead All Over; Death by Disputation; Murder by Misrule

AnnaLisa Grant -  Five

Anne Louise Bannon -  Fascinating Rhythm

Anne Marie Stoddard - Murder at Castle Rock

Annelie Wendeberg - The Devil's Grin

Aya Walksfar  - Old Woman Gone; Run or Die; Sketch of a Murder

Barbara E Brink - Roadkill (Double Barrel Mysteries #1)

Barbara Ellen Brink - Entangled (The Fredrickson Winery Novels #1)

Barbara Loos - Disillusioned; Unidentified Person in Italy

Bobbi A. Chukran - Dye Dyeing Dead

Bryan James - LZR-1143: Evolution; LZR-1143: Infection; LZR-1143: Redemption

Bryce Allen - The Spartak Trigger

Bryna Butler - Wrong Side of the Grave (Mothman Mysteries)

BV Lawson - Played to Death

C. A. Newsome - A Shot in the Bark; Drool Baby; Maximum Security

C.A. Larmer - A Note Before Dying (Ghostwriter Mystery 6); Killer Twist (Ghostwriter Mystery 1); The Agatha Christie Book Club

C.L. Bevill - Bubba and the Dead; Veiled Eyes

Carole B. Shmurak - Deadmistress

Carolyn Arnold - Eleven; Ties that Bind

Casey Peeler - Full Circle Series Box Set; Losing Charley

Cathy Perkins - Cypher

Cecilia Peartree - Closer to Death in a Garden; Crime in the Community; Reunited in Death

Charlotte Boyett-Compo - Under the Mayhaw Tree

Chris Seaton - Dairyland Murders Book 1: Head in a Haymow; Dairyland Murders Book 2: Femur in the Fieldstone; Dairyland Murders Book 3: Cop Incognito

Christine Benedict - Anonymous

Claudia Hall Christian - Suffer a Witch; The Fey; The Tax Assassin

Colin Cotterill - Pool and its Role in Asian Communism

Connie Shelton -Deadly Gamble: The First Charlie Parker Mystery; Legends Can Be Murder: Charlie Parker Mysteries Book 15; Sweet Masterpiece: The First Samantha Sweet Mystery

Cori Lynn Arnold - Northern Deceit

D. D. VanDyke - Loose Ends

Dale T. Phillips - A Memory of Grief; Crooked Paths; More Crooked Paths

Dana E. Donovan - Eye of the Witch; The Witch's Key; The Witch's Ladder

Dane McCaslin - A Bird in the Hand

David H Fears - Dark Blonde; Dark Lake; Dark Quarry

David Housewright - The Devil and the Diva

Dean Wesley Smith - Kill Game

Deb Baker - Murder Passes the Buck

Debbi Mack - Deadly Detour; Five Uneasy Pieces

Debra Lee - Redemption; Taken

Dee Davis - Eye of the Storm

Deirdre Verne - A Countdown To Death; Water Under the Bridge

Demelza Carlton - Nightmares of Caitlin Lockyer

Diana R Chambers - Stinger

Diane Burton - The Case of the Bygone Brother

Diane Fanning - The Trophy Exchange

Diane Henders - Never Say Spy; The Spy Is Cast

Dianne Emley - Cold Call

Dianne Venetta - Ladd Springs; Not Without You

Don Gutteridge - The Bishop's Pawn

Donna Huston Murray - What Doesn't Kill You, The Mystery

Dorothy McFalls - Birds in Paradise

Drew Lindsay - Black Mountain Affair; Coral Sea Affair; Get Charlie Noah

Edith Maxwell - A Fire in Carriagetown; Just Desserts for Johnny; The Stonecutter

Elaine Orr - Behind the Walls

Elizabeth Spann Craig - A Body in the Backyard; A Dyeing Shame; Progressive Dinner Deadly

Ellery Adams - A Fatal Appraisal; A Killer Collection; The Path of the Crooked

Ellie Oberth - The Hudson Agency - Chicago Style; Who Murdered The Ghost?

Emily Mims - Never and Always

Eric Meyer - Black Ops Heroes of Afghanistan; Fury of the Tiger; Killing Faith (A Gabriel De Sade Thriller)

Eric Wilder - Big Easy; Bones of Skeleton Creek; Primal Creatures

Erica Stevens - The Survivor Chronicles: Book 1, The Upheaval

Eva Pohler - The Mystery Tomb; The Purgatorium

Foinah Jameson - Mostly Dead Melvin

Francesco Zampa - Double Murder for Maresciallo Maggio; There Is Always a Reason, Maresciallo Maggio!

Gail Oust - Murder Is Dicey

Gary K. Wolf - Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

Gemma Halliday - Luck Be A Lady (Tahoe Tessie book #1); Spying in High Heels; Unbreakable Bond (Jamie Bond Mysteries #1)

Giacomo Giammatteo - Murder takes Time

Gin Jones - A Dose of Death; Four-Patch of Trouble (a Danger Cove Quilting Mystery)

Gina Fava - The Race; The Sculptor

H H Fowler - Javier

Haena James - Elysium Dreams; Mercurial Dreams; The Dysfunctional Affair

J Jackson Bentley - 48 Hours; Chameleon; Shadow of the Burj

J L Simpson - Lost Causes (A Daisy Dunlop Mystery ~ Book 1)

J. Robert Kennedy - Depraved Difference; Rogue Operator; The Protocol

J.J. Chow - Seniors Sleuth

J.J. DiBenedetto - Dream Child; Dream Doctor; Dream Student

J.L. Abramo - Catching Water in a Net; Clutching at Straws

J.T. Lewis - Gabriel's Revenge; kidNAP Inc.; Murder! Too Close To Home

Jake Needham - Killing Plato; The Ambassador's Wife

James D Best - Murder at Thumb Butte

James J. Murray - Cuffed; Lethal Medicine; Unforeseeable Consequences

Jan Coffey - Silent Waters; The Janus Effect; Trust Me Once

Janel Gradowski - Christmas Canapés & Sabotage; Pies & Peril (Culinary Competition Mysteries book #1)

Janet Dawson - Kindred Crimes; Take A Number; Till The Old Men Die

Jaron Summers - The Adjal of Jimmy Temple

Jay Amberg - Bone Box

JD Nixon - Blood Ties; Heller

Jeffrey Marks - Under Investigation

Jenna Bennett - A Cutthroat Business; Ditching David; Island Getaway

Jennifer L. Hart - Murder Al Dente

Jennifer Oberth - Married to Murder; Masked Rider: Origins; Mr. E in Cabin 187

Jeremy Robinson & Sean Ellis  - Flood Rising (A Jenna Flood Thriller); Herculean; Prime (A Jack Sigler Thriller)

Joel Gomez-Dossi - Pursued

John Edward Mullen - Digital Dick

John Ling - Fallen Angel

John Locke -  Promise You Won't Tell

John W. Mefford - Booker - Blood Ring; Booker - Streets of Mayhem

Jon Messenger - Wolves of the Northern Rift

Josh Lanyon - Winter Kill

Joyce Ann Brown - Catastrophic Connections: A Psycho Cat and the Landlady Mystery

Joyce Mason - The Crystal Ball

Judith Copek- The Shadow Warriors

Judy Fitzwater - Drowning in Air; Dying to Get Even; Dying to Get Published

Judy Hogan - The Sands of Gower: The First Penny Weaver Mystery

Julia C. Hoffman - The Enemy Within

Julie Coulter Bellon - All Fall Down

Julie Lomoe - Hope Dawns Eternal

K.B. Owen - Dangerous and Unseemly

K.C. Tansley - The Girl Who Ignored Ghosts

K.G. McAbee - Double Double Cross; Me and the Bank; The Case of the Sinister Senator

KA Laity - Chastity Flame

Kaine Thompson - FemCorps; Nobody

Karen McCullough - A Gift for Murder; A Question of Fire; Unmasking

Karen Rose Smith - Always Devoted; Her Sister

Kate Donovan - Trace Elements

Kate George - California Schemin'; Crazy Little Thing Called Dead, Take 2; Moonlighting in Vermont

Kathleen Bacus - Calamity Jayne (Calamity Jayne book #1); Calamity Jayne and the Sisterhood of the Traveling Lawn Gnome (Calamity Jayne book #8)

Kathryn Long - Whips, Cuffs, and Little Brown Boxes

Kealan Patrick Burke - Kin

Kelly McClymer - Shop and Let Die

Kelly Rey - Motion for Mistletoe (a Jamie Winters Mysteries holiday short story); Motion for Murder

Ken McClure - Chameleon; Pandora's Helix; The Lazurus Strain

Kevin J. Anderson, editor - Fiction River: Pulse Pounders

Kory M. Shrum - Dying for a Living

Kourtney Heintz - The Six Train to Wisconsin

Kris Nelscott - A Dangerous Road

Kristen Houghton - For I Have Sinned A Cate Harlow Private Investigation; Grave Misgivings

L. Barnett Evans and C. V. Rhoddes - Grandmothers, Incorporated; Saving Sin City; There's Something Wrong with Miss Zelda

L.L. Bartlett - Murder On The Mind; We're So Sorry, Uncle Albert

Lars Emmerich - Balls Deep; Devolution; The Incident

Laurie R. King - Hellbender; Mrs. Hudson's Case

Lee Driver - Chasing Ghosts; Fatal Storm; Full Moon Bloody Moon

Lee Hanson - Castle Cay

Leeann Betts - No Accounting for Murder

Leonie Gant - Not Famous in Hollywood

Leslie Langtry - Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas (A Greatest Hits Mysteries holiday short story); Merit Badge Murder

LH Thomson - Quinn Checks In

Libby Hellmann, Christine Kling, Sujata Massey, Zoe Sharp, Julie Smith -  - Killer Femmes: 5 Irresistible Crime Novels From Around the World

Liese Sherwood-Fabre - Corazones

Lillian Stewart Carl - Ashes to Ashes; The Secret Portrait; Time Enough to Die

Linda Johnson - A Tangled Web; Breaking the Cycle; Trail of Destruction

Lisa Phillips - Bait; Sanctuary Lost

Lise McClendon - Blackbird Fly

LS Sygnet - Beneath the Cracks; Daddy's Little Killer

Lucinda Brant - Deadly Engagement: A Georgian Historical Mystery

Lyn Hamilton - The Xibalba Murders

Maddie Cochere - Murder Is Where the Heart Is; Murder Under Construction; Sunshine Hunter

Marcia Talley - In Death's Shadow

Marcus Wynne - Johnny Wylde; Too Wylde; With A Vengeance

Maria Grazia Swan - Bosom Bodies; Love Thy Sister

Marie Moore -  - Game Drive

Marilynn Larew - The Spider Catchers (Lee Carruthers # 1)

Mark Arundel - Codename: Casanova; Codename: Moneyman; Codename: Santiago

Mark Sublette - Paint by Numbers

Mark Troy - Game Face; Pilikia Is My Business

Martha Carr - The Keeper; The List

Martha Reed - The Choking Game

Mary Clay - Bike Week Blues; Murder in the Stacks; The Turtle Mound Murder

Mary Kennedy -  Dead Air

Melissa F. Miller - Irreparable Harm

Melissa Pearl - I Know Lucy; Set Me Free

Mette Ivie Harrison - Saving the Moon; Ten Apprentices; The Queen's Truth

Michael Balkind - Gold Medal Threat; Sudden Death; The Fix

Michael F. Havelin - Ben Bones and the Deadly Descendants

Micheal Maxwell - Cellar Full of Cole; Diamonds and Cole; Helix of Cole

Milda Harris - Adventures in Funeral Crashing; Adventures of a Graveyard Girl; Killer Cupcakes

Milly Reynolds - Happy Deathday To You; The Hanged Cow; The Woolly Murders

N. L. Quatrano - Murder in Black and White

Nanci Rathbun - Truth Kills

Nancy J. Cohen - Hair Raiser

Nancy Jill Thames - Murder in Half Moon Bay

Nancy Sartor - Bones Along the Hill

Neil S. Plakcy - Genie For Hire; In Dog We Trust

Nicolette Pierce - Deadly Dancing; The Big Blind

O'Neil De Noux - Grim Reaper; John Raven Beau; New Orleans Confidential

Paisley Ray - The Rachael O'Brien Chronicles

Pat Camalliere - The Mystery at Sag Bridge

Patricia Dusenbury - A Perfect Victim

Patricia McLinn - Sign Off

Patrick Malloy - Bang Bang

Patti Larsen - Freak Show

Paul D. Marks - Angels Flight - A Noir Short Story; White Heat

Paul Pilkington - The One You Love

Peg Cochran - Confession Is Murder

R. Barri Flowers - Dark Streets of Whitechapel: A Jack The Ripper Mystery; Justice Served: A Barkley and Parker Thriller; Murder in Maui: A Leila Kahana Mystery

R. E. Conary - Life's A Bitch. So Am I.

R.E. Donald - Ice on the Grapevine

R.R. Gilston - World Without Safewords

R.T. Lawton -  9 Historical Mysteries

Rae Davies - Loose Screw

Ranae Glass -  - Chasing Daybreak

Rebecca Forster -  Before Her Eyes; Hostile Witness; Silent Witness

Richard L. Sanders - Betraying Nexus; The Phoenix Conspiracy; The Phoenix Rising

Rick Bylina - All of Our Secrets; One Promise Too Many

Rick Mofina - A Perfect Grave; Every Fear; The Dying Hour

Rob Bliss - Cut

Rod Hoisington - One Deadly Sister; The Price of Candy

Ronald L. Ruiz - Jesusita

Ross Cavins - Follow The Money

S.D. Tooley - Restless Spirit; The Tunnel; When the Dead Speak

S.J.A. Turney - The Thief's Tale

Sally Berneathy - Death by Chocolate; The Ex Who Wouldn't Die

Sandra de Helen - The Hounding; The Illustrious Client

Sandra Ruttan - Childhood Dreams; Harvest of Ruins

Sarah Ettritch - The Atheist

Sarah R. Shaber - Simon Said

Sarah Woodbury - The Good Knight; The Uninvited Guest

Scott Wittenburg - Double Trouble; The Barcode Murders; The Collector

SE Jakes - Catch A Ghost; Free Falling; Long Time Gone

Sheila Connolly - Relatively Dead

Sherry Siska - The Divas of Doom; The Floozies of Fate; The Madams of Mischief

Sheyna Galyan - Strength to Stand

Sibel Hodge - Trafficked: The Diary of a Sex Slave

Sibel Hodge & Elizabeth Ashby -Murder and Mai Tais (a Danger Cove Cocktail Mystery)

Simon Jenner - Ethan Justice: Origins

SJ Rozan - Body English; Chin Yong-Yun Takes a Case; Cooking the Hounds

Sonnjea Blackwell - Ghost of a Chance; Home Free; Killer Fate

Stacy Verdick Case - A Grand Murder

Stephanie Caffrey - Diva Las Vegas

Stephen Booth - Claws

Stephen Leather - Bangkok Bob and the Missing Mormon; Take Two; The Bestseller

Steve Anderson - The Losing Role

Sue Star - Murder In The Dojo

Susan Froetschel - Royal Escape

Susan Harris - Shattered Memories

Susan Mac Nicol - Love and Punishment

Susan Schreyer - An Error in Judgment; Death by a Dark Horse; Levels of Deception

Suze Lowden - Las Vegas Gamble: A Minkind Thriller

Tamara Ward - Private Deception

Teresa Blue - Letters From Inside

Terry Odell  - Deadly Bones; Deadly Secrets; Seeing Red

Tia Catalina - Blue Falcon

Tim Ellis - A Life for a Life; Footprints of the Dead

Todd Borg - Tahoe Blowup

Trace Conger - The Shadow Broker

Traci Andrighetti - Limoncello Yellow (Franki Amato Mysteries #1)

Tracy D. Comstock - Murder Is Our Mascot

Tracy L. Ward - Chorus of the Dead

V. J. Chambers - Skin and Blond

Vinnie Hansen - Art, Wine & Bullets; Black Beans & Venom; Murder, Honey

Wendy Dingwall - Celtic Curse; Hera's Revenge

Wil A. Emerson - Fatal Mistake; Oh Henry

Will Thurston - The Talent Scout

William Hertling - Avogadro Corp
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