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Fabulous cover design for ‘Angels Sing To Rest’

Posted by: Chrinda Jones    Tags:  angels sing to rest, April Gann, Chrinda Jones, crime, Dallas, Deep Ellum, graphic artist, indie author, Olivia Gates and Will Green, thriller    Posted date:  February 5, 2014  |  609 Comments


April Gann just finished designing the cover to the latest installment of my Olivia Gates and Will Green crime series. The new novel, Angels Sing To Rest, is scheduled for release in December 2014, if all goes according to plan. Be sure to check back for sneak peaks from this new title.

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Author Interview with Samantha Lafantasia

Posted by: Chrinda Jones    Tags:  author interviews, crime, crime author interviews, indie author interviews    Posted date:  August 19, 2013  |  No comment


A fun interview with me, conducted by Samantha Lafantasia. Stop by and read the interview Samantha did with me as well as other interviews and book features focused on new and established Indie authors. http://samanthalafantasie.com/

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It Seemed So Easy

Posted by: Chrinda Jones    Tags:  characters, crime, Darkness Knows Me, deadlines, manuscripts, playing nice, story lines, writer    Posted date:  June 7, 2013  |  2,717 Comments


Goaded on by the lovely people who have read my novel, 'Darkness Knows Me',  and those who are waiting for the next in the series, I am currently trying to shift into high gear on the next manuscript. Initially, I thought this would be a relatively quick and simple task because the manuscript already exists. Silly me! (I think I'll be saying this quite a bit over the next decade or two) The idea was to  take the plot lines from this existing manuscript and Olivia and Will and all the other players in the last book and shove them into the pre-existing story. Sounds simple, right? How difficult...

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Chrinda’s Journey To Authorship: Blog Entry #2 So You Think You Can Write

Posted by: Chrinda Jones    Tags:  crime, journey, leaning to write, new writer, writing, writing crime    Posted date:  April 27, 2013  |  No comment


Oh My Gosh, What Have I Gotten Myself Into? The first post in this series revealed how I was driven to the point of writing my own fiction novel - a series of bad reads being the culprit. Now, we’ll fast forward a month or so to where you would likely hear me saying, “What have I gotten myself into?” for probably the hundredth time. Unfortunately for me I understood I knew nothing about writing, and I also knew the ability wouldn’t miraculously come to me. Being a musician all my life taught me that to be better than the average musician takes more than having a knack for it. I assumed...

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