NEW RELEASE! Coattails and Cocktails, by Rumer Haven

COATTAILS AND COCKTAILS

by Rumer Haven

Genre: Historical Mystery, Romantic Suspense
Publisher:  Fallen Monkey Press
Cover Designer:  RoseWolf Design

Release Date: September 14, 2017

A body clearly shaken, but not stirring…

Summer, 1929. Murder isn’t on the menu when Chicago tycoon Ransom Warne hosts a dinner party at his country estate. But someone’s a victim—and everyone’s a suspect—when drinks and desires lead to disaster.

Hollywood starlet Lottie Landry has returned home to celebrate her engagement. She’s famous for her on- and off-screen romance with co-star Noble, but, privately, she’s having second thoughts. As her former guardian, Ransom doesn’t approve of the match. Yet his own affections raise questions when his wife, Edith, suspects him of having an affair—just as Noble suspects Lottie. Stirred into the mix are Lottie’s friends Helen and Rex, a young journalist and football hero who can feel tension building in the Warne mansion like a shaken champagne bottle.

And once the cork pops, a body drops.

Coattails and Cocktails is where Agatha Christie meets The Great Gatsby, a whodunit spiked with new love and old baggage, public faces and private vices. Filled to the brim with romance and mystery, it’s sure to intoxicate.

Cover Reveal: COATTAILS AND COCKTAILS, by Rumer Haven

Very excited to share this with you, Flappers!

COATTAILS AND COCKTAILS

by Rumer Haven

Historical / Romantic Mystery

Releasing September 14, 2017

SUMMARY

A body clearly shaken, but not stirring…

Summer, 1929. Murder isn’t on the menu when Chicago tycoon Ransom Warne hosts a dinner party at his country estate. But someone’s a victim—and everyone’s a suspect—when drinks and desires lead to disaster.

Hollywood starlet Lottie Landry has returned home to celebrate her engagement. She’s famous for her on- and off-screen romance with co-star Noble, but, privately, she’s having second thoughts. As her former guardian, Ransom doesn’t approve of the match. Yet his own affections raise questions when his wife, Edith, suspects him of having an affair—just as Noble suspects Lottie. Stirred into the mix are Lottie’s friends Helen and Rex, a young journalist and football hero who can feel tension building in the Warne mansion like a shaken champagne bottle.

And once the cork pops, a body drops.

Coattails and Cocktails is where Agatha Christie meets The Great Gatsby, a whodunit spiked with new love and old baggage, public faces and private vices. Filled to the brim with romance and mystery, it’s sure to intoxicate.

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Madness to the Method, Part 1: The Brainstorm

In a previous post, I shared the random freewriting that planted the seed of a story several years ago. At the time, though, I had no clue what sort of plot I could shape around that and never believed that I'd ever have enough ideas (or time) to seriously write a novel-length fiction. Freely written vignettes were more my thing back then and are still what greatly help dislodge ideas from my scattered brain so I can find some cohesion among them on paper if I can't in my mind.

My brainstorming process isn't pretty. I admit it. But the only way I can write is to write everything down that swarms inside my fool head. I wrote my two manuscripts on the computer, but they both started out as pen-to-paper scraps of ideas, which I wrote on literal scraps as well.

The photo above is where my novel Seven for a Secret was born: character profiles jotted on the back of my husband's resume at Cafe Nero in London, popular 1920s names listed on hotel stationary in Singapore, the catalyst and its ripple effect on different characters scratched onto a torn piece of paper who knows where, and the draft plot outline, key questions, and possible scenarios scribbled into a notebook at a cafe in the French Alps.

Yeah, it probably all sounds very Hemingway and romantic, the expat writer crafting her stories in foreign cafes and hotels when she's not at her typewriter up in a garret, smoking and sipping absinthe all the while, but the reality isn't all that quaint (or substance-abusing). My creative process is messy and mental and just plain mean to me sometimes.

And the lame reason why I ended up alone and able to outline my entire tale in the Alpine village of Val d'Isere is because I don't ski. While everyone else went frolicking into the majestic mountains to flaunt their athletic awesomeness, I needed something to do at loser--I mean, lower elevation. Hot toddies were certainly in order, but my mind was too restless to even read. So, pictured here is the pretty (cheap) lil' journal I bought in a small shop that day, documenting that I outlined my story in early 2011.

And over three years later...huh. Let's just say I've never been so happy that I don't partake in winter sports. :)

My Ghoulish Goodreads Giveaway!

In the spirit of Halloween, I'm giving up the ghost...or giving it away, rather, in the form of two signed copies at Goodreads for the entire month of October. Enter to win and see if Olive's BOO! is bigger than her bite. ;)

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Seven For A Secret

by Rumer Haven

Giveaway ends October 31, 2014.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

Enter to win

SEVEN FOR A SECRET: The Movie

Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves, darlings. It remains to be seen whether anyone outside of friends and family will read SEVEN FOR A SECRET the book. :)

But in gearing up to release week, I had a terribly good time writing up guest posts for participants in the blog tour. I love film about as much as literature, so I do catch myself thinking a bit cinematically when I write. But while I deliberately infused this story with song references as a sort-of soundtrack to read by, I never saw my characters as anyone else but themselves, so I didn't "cast" any actors in their roles until prompted by these guest posts. Once I did it, though, I found it an absolute hoot.

So, thanks to the lovely bloggers who shared these "auditions" with their followers. And now, I bring them to YOU, dears, at the links below:

~* THE CAST *~

Main Characters

Secondary Characters

~* THE SOUNDTRACK *~

If you find yourself throwing popcorn at any of my choices, yank them off the stage with a big cane and list YOUR IDEAL CAST in the comments below! I'd love to know how others picture these characters. :)

Calling All Flappers! Today, We DANCE!

I feel like I'm late to my own party for first posting this now, but the buildup to release day (a.k.a., TODAY!) has been such a weird and wonderful experience to savor. I'm so grateful to everyone who's been participating in the SEVEN FOR A SECRET promos and offering me support in general. I've been contacted by a lot of friends who have already downloaded their copy and started reading, so at this point, I'm just trying not to soil my knickers awaiting their reaction and the book reviews of kind strangers giving it a chance.

You can read the summary at my website or Goodreads. I suppose at this point, I should also divulge the deetz of where you can find this little sucker:

In the meantime, I'm having a ball over at the SEVEN FOR A SECRET Facebook party! So join me and other authors over there to answer some trivia and become eligible to WIN giveaways galore! The event runs until 6pm EST today.

And you still have six days to enter the SEVEN FOR A SWEEPSTAKES giveaway for a chance to win a free ebook, Origami Owl® key charm like the key to Olive's secret, and an Anna Chocola® cloche hat so you can step out Eva style.

All right then, it's been fun beating my gums here, but I'd better ankle and get back to the FB party!

SEVEN FOR A SECRET Teaser #2

AVAILABLE AUGUST 12, 2014

Omnific Publishing

Goodreads 

SEVEN FOR A SECRET Teaser #1

AVAILABLE AUGUST 12, 2014

Omnific Publishing

Goodreads