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SAVE THE DATE! Olivia Blacke will be appearing live (virtually) with Dorothy St. James, author of THE BROKEN SPINE (see more below!) on February 11, 2021 at 7PM Central, hosted by Murder by the Book: https://www.murderbooks.com/StJames-%20Blacke. Reminders will be on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Psst — wanna know a secret?

KILLER CONTENT is live!

Ok, so maybe that’s not much of a secret. At least I hope it’s not. If you haven’t gotten your copy yet, it’s available….well pretty much everywhere. You can find a full list of links at: https://oliviablacke.com/books/killer-content. In addition to Amazon, Target, Walmart, B&N, & BAM, you can find KILLER CONTENT at indie bookstores. Indiebound is a great way to find great books through your local store.

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Looking for an autographed copy of KILLER CONTENT?

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Autographed bookplates are no longer available (supplies ran out – thank you to everyone who ordered one!!) but One More Page Books in Arlington, Virginia carries autographed copies of NO MEMES OF ESCAPE and KILLER CONTENT! Order online for a personalized copy shipped to you or for pick-up in store.

To be completely honest, I never imagined launching my first book during a global pandemic. Instead of being a bundle of nerves in a bookstore, I’m at home in my PJs. Which is probably for the best because it’s cold and snowy outside! However, I’d be absolutely honored to sign a copy of KILLER CONTENT for you – virtually, of course. I posted in an earlier newsletter that I’d be sending out bookplates (signed designed stickers) to requestees who fill out the form at: https://oliviablacke.com/kcautograph. This was such a success that I ran out and had to order more! If you want your very own autographed bookplate, fill out the request form (while supplies last!)

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Need more Brooklyn Murder Mysteries?

Have no fear! Odessa Dean returns to Williamsburg on Oct 5, 2021 in NO MEMES OF ESCAPE. While I can’t reveal the cover just yet, I can tell you that the pre-order links are starting to go live.

When an escape room game turns deadly, it’s up to amateur sleuth Odessa Dean to solve the crime.

What could be more fun than an escape room? Solve a few puzzles, strategize with new friends, compete against the clock, and maybe even discover a dead body. The party grinds to a halt when a player is murdered in a locked escape room, and one of Odessa Dean’s new besties is a prime suspect. With time running out to save her friend before Odessa has to leave Williamsburg for good, Odessa must navigate the demands of waiting tables at a popular bookstore-slash-cafe and the perils of internet dating, all while hunting a murderer.

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What I’m reading right now: The Broken Spine is  fantastic!

When small-town assistant librarian Tru Beckett sets up a secret book room in her newly modernized library, she discovers that protecting the printed word is harder than she’d ever imagined. In fact, it’s murder.

Trudell Becket, known to her friends as Tru, finds herself in a bind when her library in lovely Cypress, South Carolina, is turned into a state-of-the-art bookless “technological center.” A library with no books breaks Tru’s book-loving heart so she decides to rescue hundreds of beloved tomes slated for the town dump. Under the cover of darkness, Tru, along with her best friends—coffee shop owner Tori Green and mysterious bestselling author Flossie Finnegan-Baker—set up a secret bookroom in the library’s basement and prepare to open it to their most loyal, trustworthy patrons.

But as Tru and her crew are putting the finishing touches on their new book room, the town manager, who was behind the big push for the library’s transformation, is crushed by an overturned shelf of DVDs. Tru becomes the prime suspect as she hadn’t hid the fact that she hated having all of those wonderful books replaced by tablets and computers. But if she gives the police her alibi, she’ll have to explain about the secret book room and risk losing the books.

Tru knows she’s in a heap of trouble, and it doesn’t help that the officer in charge of the case is her old crush from high school, who broke her teenaged heart. To keep herself out of jail and her beloved bookroom up and running, Tru—with the help of Tori, Flossie, and a brown tabby stray cat named Dewey Decimal—decides to investigate. And faster than you can say “Shhhh!” Tru quickly finds herself on the same page with a killer who would love to write her final chapter. . . .