Guest Post & Giveaway with Mary Burton

Book Monster Reviews is excited to welcome Mary Burton to the blog today!

Mary Burton’s southern family has always enjoyed tall tales and a good yarns. Early on, MB realized that Story had tremendous power to inspire strong responses such fear, laughter, love and even sorrow. It didn’t matter if the tale was found in the pages of a book, spoken in hushed tones around a Girl Scout campfire, or spouted at an old fashioned southern family reunion. This appreciation of story motivated MB to earn an English degree from Virginia’s Hollins University.

After decade of working in marketing and sales, MB became convinced she could write and sell one of the many stories buzzing around her brain. Fingers crossed, MB left the marketing profession and devoted all her spare time to writing a novel. Soon after, she sold her first manuscript to Harlequin Historicals. Since that initial sale, MB had written twelve historical romances for Harlequin Historicals, four short romantic suspenses for Silhouette Romantic Suspense and a non-fiction book The Insider’s Guide to Direct Marketing. Her first single title romantic suspense for Zebra I’M WATCHING YOU was a December 2007 release.

In 2005, THE UNEXPECTED WIFE was a finalist in the Romance Writers of America’s RITA contest and WISE MOVES was 2006 nominee for Romantic Times’ Critics Choice Award. Her romantic suspense titles have received critical acclaim from New York Times Best Selling authors Carla Neggers, Brenda Novak and Lisa Jackson as well as Library Journal and Publishers Weekly.

Under the name Mary Ellen Taylor, Burton now writes women’s fiction. Her first release is THE UNION STREET BAKERY (2/13, Berkley Trade).

Mary resides in Virginia where she enjoys yoga, cooking, hiking and the occasional triathlon.

Today we are helping Mary promote her newest release, THE SEVENTH VICTIM which was just released today!  Happy Release Day Mary!!  Let's take a look at the synopsis to see what the book is all about.

THE SEVENTH VICTIM

 

IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED
It’s been seven years since the Seattle Strangler terrorized the city. His victims were all young, pretty, their lifeless bodies found wrapped in a home-sewn white dress. But there was one who miraculously escaped death, just before the Strangler disappeared…

KILL
Lara Church has only hazy memories of her long-ago attack. What she does have is a home in Austin, a job, and a chance at a normal life at last. Then Texas Ranger James Beck arrives on her doorstep with shattering news: The Strangler is back. And this time, he’s in Austin…

AND KILL AGAIN…
He’s always craved her, even as he killed the others. For so long he’s been waiting to unleash the beast within. And this time, he’ll prove he holds her life in his hands—right before he ends it forever…

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Sounds great right?!  Before you run off to buy your copy, check out Mary's guest post below and don't forget to enter to win a copy of THE SEVENTH VICTIM below.

January is my time of year to de-clutter my office.   I always start with an inbox that lists dangerously and then it’s on to bookshelves crammed full of books.  I attempt this ritual every year and always wonder where all this stuff comes from.  How did I mange to refill shelves I’d cleaned out just last year? 

Most of the books are non-fiction and are tied to a novel I've written.  I can look at each one and know what bit of information it provided so that I could work out the logistics of a scene.   Most days I pretty much know which I’ll keep and which ones I’ll give away.   I could de-clutter as I go, but until my latest novel is finished I hang onto it all.

Now, that THE SEVENTH VICTIM is being  published, I've got piles of books including ones on Texas, the Texas Rangers, and wet plate photography.  There are maps.  Travel brochures.  Information on Texas Wine Country.  My heroine in THE SEVENTH VICTIM endured a brutal attack so there are books on survivors.  Books on grief.   Texas Cooking.

It always amazes me how many hundreds of pieces must come together to create a book.  Each and every book on my shelf has helped in some way and getting rid of them is like sending away old friends…

Perhaps I’ve just hit on why my office is so cluttered.  I shuffle things around, dust and reorder, but I rarely give away anything.

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Mary is giving away a copy of  THE SEVENTH VICTIM to 

one lucky winner (US/CANADA ONLY).

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