Posts Tagged ‘Quint Mitchell’

Hurricane Island Signing

The Book Loft
214 Centre Street, Fernandina Beach, FL
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Barnes & Noble Booksigning

Barnes & Noble Town Center
10280 Mid Town Parkway, Jacksonville FL
1:00 – 4:00 p.m

Gold Medal Winner

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

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…

Contest Winner

Congratulation to Penelope Merriweather, winner of the “Like Parker Francis” contest. As I said in my last post, the contest generated over 350 new Likes to the official Parker Francis Facebook page, spurred, perhaps, by the prize of an autographed copy of BRING DOWN THE FURIES. Penelope’s number was chosen read more…

February 2013

Barnes & Noble Booksellers

Saturday, February 9, 2013
11112 San Jose Boulevard
Jacksonville, Florida 32223
12:30 – 3:30 p.m. Booksigning

 Ocean Gallery Book Club

Wednesday, February 20, 2013
4600 A1A South
St. Augustine, Florida 32080

Playing God

Writers hold an awesome power in their hands. We’re able to create “storybook people” from the depths of our imagination. I like to think of it as playing God. Of course, with great power comes great responsibility, and I take the people-building process quite seriously.  I hope my readers appreciate read more…

FEBRUARY APPEARANCES

NOVEL IN A DAY WORKSHOP

Saturday, February 2, 2013
Gamache-Koger Theater
Ringhaver Student Center, Flagler College
St. Augustine, FL
A benefit for the Florida Heritage Book Festival

THE PLAYERS Community Senior Center

Tuesday, February 5 – 11:00 a.m.
175 Landrum Lane, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Parker Francis Author Talk

BARNES & NOBLE SIGNING

Saturday, February 9 – 12:30 – 3:30 p.m.
11112 read more…