Off To A Flying Start!

I have so much to tell and so little time to tell it! First of all, Sex, Murder And A Double Latte is in most bookstores now! I’ve been driving around this city and (I’m a little embarrassed to admit this) a few neighboring cities visiting my baby. In most Barnes & Nobles it’s facing out in the New Mystery section but in one store they had it right up front and displayed!! By displayed I don’t mean that it was lying on some table. Oh no. They were stacked on the top shelf of this special pyramid shaped free standing table deal and the top book was propped up on this plastic thing so that literally the first thing you saw when walking in the door was my beloved novel! It honestly took my breath away. I just stood there in the entryway gawking!!!

There’s been other wonderful stuff going on too. I was interviewed by The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. It is a wonderful article and a lot of people who read it have emailed me or stopped by to see me when I was signing at the LA Times Festival Of Books. Which of course brings me to my next topic: My first signing!!

It really was a blast! I sat at a table with Denise Hamilton, author of the Eve Diamond Novels, Karen McCullah Lutz, author of The Bachelorette Party, and Cathy Yardley, author of Couch World and many other fabulous Red Dress Ink novels. I was terrified that no one would want my book but as it turns out I got a rather nice turn out! It wasn’t huge but it was enough to keep me busy which is more than I had the right to expect considering the fact that I’m a new author. Everyone was incredibly nice and when I was done I literally skipped out of there! It’s just so flattering to have people not only want to read what I write but also want me to autograph it for them! And I think I was even more touched by the few men who asked me to sign a book for a woman in their life so they could give it away as a gift! Just think—something I wrote is worthy of a gift!

Okay, so moving on to my next announcement. I wrote a short chick lit story for eharlequin. A new chapter is posted every day. I’m actually rather proud of this little project. It’s my first short story and I wasn’t sure if I would be able to pull it off. Especially since each chapter needed to be between 500-700 words. To give you an idea of how long that is this blog entry is just over 530 words. It’s hard to develop a storyline and characters in such short installments. But as daunting as the task initially seemed it was actually a lot of fun to write. Anyway, if you would like to read it just click here.

So that’s all the news for today! If you’re already reading Sex, Murder And A Double Latte I hope you are enjoying it as much as I enjoyed creating it!

Kyra Davis
www.kyradavis.com
Sex, Murder And A Double Latte IN STORES NOW!!!