Lois Winston
Author of Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Lois Winston is a craft designer who also writes mysteries.-cf. LC 2008041653.
Series
Works by Lois Winston
Associated Works
House Unauthorized: Vasculitis, Clinic Duty, and Bad Bedside Manner (2007) — Contributor — 33 copies, 2 reviews
Dreams and Desires: A Collection of Romance and Erotic Tales (2007) — Contributor — 18 copies, 1 review
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- Other names
- Carlyle, Emma
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New Jersey, USA
- Places of residence
- New Jersey, USA
- Education
- Tyler School of Art
- Occupations
- crafts editor (American Woman Magazine)
novelist - Short biography
- USA Today bestselling author Lois Winston straddles two worlds. She's an award-winning author of mystery, romance, romantic suspense, humorous women's fiction, children's chapter books, and non-fiction under her own name and as Emma Carlyle. She's also an award-winning designer of needlework and crafts projects for magazines, craft book publishers, and craft kit manufacturers. Like Anastasia, the protagonist in her Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series, Lois worked for several years as a crafts editor. A graduate of the prestigious Tyler School of Art, she often draws on her art and design background for much of the source material in her fiction.
- Disambiguation notice
- Lois Winston is a craft designer who also writes mysteries.-cf. LC 2008041653.
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Reviews
Another great book by Ms.Winston.
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Statistics
- Works
- 41
- Also by
- 5
- Members
- 437
- Popularity
- #55,995
- Rating
- 3.5
- Reviews
- 30
- ISBNs
- 43
Excited to have won a prestigious amateur writing contest, sure that it is her ticket to a successful new career, Gracie Elliot finds herself at a writers conference for the Society of American Romance Authors. Simply checking into the hotel, she finds herself star stuck as she recognizes many her favorite authors. It doesn’t take her long though, to figure out that as glamorous as her new career path may have seemed when she imagined it, the reality of infighting and backbiting, makes for some serious drama. When she finds the dead body of an especially not well liked author, it seems there is no shortage of suspects. Reluctantly she begins to investigate the mystery risking the irritation of her gorgeous husband and maybe even damage to her fledgling writing career.
Gracie Elliot is a fun character. She is socially awkward at times and a bit clumsy, yet she runs headlong into the next moment with a gusto that makes her irresistible. Her husband Blake is a perfect foil for her enthusiasm. The story is written with wit and style and even though I had the murderer figured out within pages of finding the body, it was very satisfying to read the pieces of the mystery fall into place. The writing conference, with its range of characters, was the perfect backdrop for the story and it was nearly as fun to learn about the behind-the-scenes of the writing and publishing world as it was to read the book.… (more)