Karen Cantwell

Free on Kindle: Take the Monkeys and Run

Posted by on Jul 18, 2012 in Uncategorized | 4 comments Tell your friends!  Take the Monkeys and Run, the first book in the Barbara Marr Mystery series, is FREE today and tomorrow – 7/18/12 and 7/19/12. What a deal, huh? I hope everyone is having a great week and a wonderful summer! Yours...
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Giving Back

Posted by on Jun 11, 2012 in Uncategorized | 1 comment At least once each day, I slow down from the grind and take a moment to reflect on my life and the many blessings I hold dear.  My family, my friends, my health, my ability to do what I love – to write.  These are all so important to me.  It’s also important to me that I give back.  To help others, because so many have helped me.  It’s a regenerating circle. When I wrote...
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FREE today on Kindle! (tomorrow too)

Posted by on Jun 7, 2012 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on FREE today on Kindle! (tomorrow too) What’s more chaotic than a house with a canary, two hungry cats, and a yappy poodle with elimination issues? Answer: Barbara Marr on a murder investigation. That’s right, when Barb attends her first movie review screening, film director Kurt Baugh dies within twenty minutes of meeting her. If that isn’t bad enough, her friend, ex-Mafioso, Frankie Romano, is arrested for the murder. In usual...
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Twitter? Yes or No?

Posted by on May 4, 2012 in Uncategorized | 7 comments Today, while driving to Taco Bell with my son (Taco Supremes – my guilty pleasure!), he proclaimed, “you need to be on Twitter to get the word out about your books, Mom.” Now, I actually DO have a Twitter handle (@takethemonkeys), and for a while, was tweeting actively, but I began to wonder if readers were really “following” me. I have many Facebook followers and I...
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Book Winners!!!

Posted by on Apr 30, 2012 in Uncategorized | 1 comment Happy Monday, friends! Well, I had a whopping 39 entries for this contest! I must say, I was very excited. So I assigned each entry a number then went to random.org to use their random number generator, and here’s who they picked:Nancy RoessnerSuziLindsey CortesBarbara Gracki YAY!!! I’ve emailed all four winners, so if your name is here, check your email. These are only in...
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My Story in a New Anthology – Win a Copy!

Posted by on Apr 24, 2012 in Uncategorized | 3 comments I’m very excited to announce that my short story, “Next Stop, Foggy Bottom” is now available in the newly released anthology of mystery short stories, Chesapeake Crimes: This Job is Murder. This is the fifth installment of the Chesapeake Crimes series, and features mystery shorts by Shari Randall, C. Ellett Logan, Karen Cantwell, E. B. Davis, Jill Breslau, David Autry,...
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