Posts Tagged ‘Parker Francis’

Launch of “The Prometheus Saga”

posted January 10th, 2015

The date has been set for the simultaneous launch of fourteen stories by thirteen award-winning writers. On Monday, January 26, all fourteen stories will go on sale as Kindle ebooks, each for only 99-cents. They are an amazing array of genre-bending stories, interpreting a singular premise in unique ways. My story, “The read more…

The Prometheus Saga

posted December 20th, 2014

Most of us know that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, thought to be the very first science fiction novel. The book was published in 1818, and quickly became a cult classic. But did you know that between 1910 and 1994 there were more than 70 major feature films made based either directly or indirectly read more…

Ready for the Beehive?

posted November 21st, 2014

There’s a new reading experience on the horizon. We call it The Alvarium Experiment. An alvarium is a beehive, a colony working toward a common goal. In this case, the goal isn’t sweet honey, but an anthology, a collection of stories built around a common theme.

Gold Medal Winner

posted September 22nd, 2013

BRING DOWN THE FURIES, the second Quint Mitchell Mystery took the top spot, a Gold Medal in last night Florida Authors & Publishers Association President’s Awards. Quint knocked out the judges and the competition, and Parker was there to take home the gold, saying he felt like an Olympic champion. read more…

The Suspense is Killing Me

posted July 4th, 2013

The following first appeared in The Florida Writer, the official member magazine of the Florida Writers Association, in my column, The First Million Words.

“I had to force myself to finish it.”

The speaker was a woman I met at a party recently, and she was telling me of a book she’d read that hadn’t read more…

Upcoming Appearances

posted June 21st, 2013

August 23 – 25, 2013

Nashville, Tennessee

Killer Nashville Conference
Hutton Hotel & Convention Center
1808 West End Avenue
Nashville, TN 37203

One of the nation’s biggest conferences for mystery writers and lovers of mysteries

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Thursday-Friday, September 26-27
St. Augustine, Florida

Florida Heritage Book Festival Writers Conference
St. Johns County Convention Center at World Golf Village
500 S.Legacy Trail
St. Augustine, FL read more…

Get FURIES for free!

posted June 12th, 2013

The second Quint Mitchell Mystery, BRING DOWN THE FURIES, is now available for free “borrows” to Amazon Prime members. The Prime program allows members to borrow one book a month free of charge to read at their leisure. FURIES is priced at $3.99, a bargain in its own right, but free read more…

Parker is hearing “Ghostly Whispers”

posted June 1st, 2013

If you’ve been wondering what old Parker has been up to, you’ll be happy to hear I’ve added a new book to the Amazon.com Kindle shelf. While it’s not another Quint Mitchell Mystery (more about that later), it is a collection of short stories titled GHOSTLY WHISPERS, SECRET VOICES. The collection is subtitled, read more…

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