RACHAEL STAPLETON

If you have someone on your Christmas list who would enjoy being spirited away to a world of time travel and harrowing investigations, please check out The TEMPLE OF INDRA series on Amazon. Also available in paperback in the consignment section of the Peterborough, Vaughan and Ajax Chapters locations. (Be sure to ask where the consignment section is located) "My sanity was wavering. It had all started when Nick pushed me. Then waking up in the body of the princess, being confined and chased and then once again jumping into a watery time portal and waking up in a hospital … And then there was Gigi’s reaction and death. How much was real?"   Buy Now  THE TEMPLE OF INDRA’S JEWEL is the first in a series of four. It is centered on the adventures/misadventures of Sophia Marcil, an unlucky-in-love librarian who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1857, where she is caught up in a plot for the throne. A modern day woman in the body of an 18th century princess, she be...

Hey Hey Hey! Or should I say Ho Ho Ho! I'm still alive...just in case you guys were wondering. I've had my fingers to the keyboard this past month revising THE TEMPLE OF INDRA'S JEWEL for re-release through my current publisher. I have to say I'm falling in love with the story and the characters all over again. I know...I know...you want Book 3...not Book 1...again. The truth is I wrote the first book ten years ago and after completing three additional books (that's right...they are coming people) I can see that my writing style has changed and (fingers crossed) improved. Needless to say, it irritates me that my series may not flow in terms of style. So after speaking with my editor-in-chief at Solstice Publishing, I decided to rewrite The Temple of Indra's Jewel. I blame the perfectionist within me. Not to worry, the rewrite is about style and I'm being careful not to change the story. I know it wouldn’t be fair to all of you who love my story just...

Travel and make-believe go hand in hand. Whether we're in the present or the past, in a haunted castle, an enchanted forest or a broken down building, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and traveling the world can bring the imagination to life. www.youne.com Baby, it's cold outside... and it's not getting any warmer for the next few months.  That's why today we're frolicking at the beach. So, turn up the fireplace, wrap that cozy blanket around and let's head to Los Angeles with Author Sybil Johnson.  #Travel #AuthorInterview #TreasuredTipsyTimeslip #RachaelStapleton #LosAngeles #VistaBeach#PainttheTownDead #cozymysterywriter #Beachlife #California #SybilJohnson The city of Vista Beach where the protagonist in my mystery series lives might be a fictional town, but it’s based on the real beach cities of Los Angeles County, in particular Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, and Redondo Beach. Each of these South Bay cities has inspired...

Genre – Cozy Mystery Series: A Witch City Mystery Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Kensington (October 27, 2015) ISBN-13: 978-1617733734 Look Both Ways by Carol J. Perry is the third book in Witch City Mystery series. Lee Barett teaches television production during the school year so to keep busy for the summer; she has volunteered to locate props for the drama program. With the reconstruction of her apartment after the fire complete, Lee is looking forward to furnishing it. She finds a bureau identical to one she loved as a child, complete with hidden compartments in a local antique store. The bureau comes from the estate of Helena Trent, a socialite presumed to have been killed by her husband. Not long after purchasing the bureau, she returns only to discover the body of the shop keeper. Turns out the bureau comes complete with a mystery. Helena was known to possess a priceless pink diamond, but it disappeared upon her death. This prompts the question...

Calling All Writers in the Peterborough, Hasting & Campbellford area! I'm opening my home to a writers critique group that will begin Tuesday November 17th. Please drop a line if you are interested in joining on a biweekly basis. We are looking for supportive writers who can take and deliver constructive criticism, focusing on the things that work while making suggestions to strengthen and improve the piece and ultimately the writer. Writing Circle: The Whodunnits: Writing To Kill For City: Norwood Location: Second Empire Victorian Home Meeting day: Tuesday Start time: 7 P.M Meeting frequency: Bi-weekly (possibly weekly in the future) Openings: Yes Format: We currently have 3 members but we're open to a few more. Looking specifically for more mystery writers (cozies, historical, traditional). The plan is to send out a chapter (3500 words or less) for review a week ahead of time. This chapter will need to be printed and toted along for Tuesday's meeting w...

Solstice Publishing will choose the Author of the Year, and they want to know what the readers think. Cast your vote for the author you most enjoyed this year. Click Here and scroll through the authors. Hope I make the cut. Much Love, Rachael Stapleton

OVER ONE THOUSAND BOOKS! I once read that when you see 11:11 you should simply stop, and recognize the significance of the moment. So here I go. In February Solstice published the second book in my TEMPLE OF INDRA series and for the first time since it was published I spent some time crunching numbers only to realize that as of August I hit the most magical number in the Universe. I distributed 1,111 copies of CURSE OF THE PURPLE DELHI SAPPHIRE through Amazon. (Not including paperbacks sold through myself, stores or via the book launch.) Can I get a hell yeah! These Canadians are not just celebrating the Toronto Blue Jays magical 2015 season, they are celebrating 1111 copies of Rachael Stapleton novels going out through Amazon. (Stay with me here.) I know what you’re thinking: “Holy Cow! Over a thousand books! You must be rich!” That’s what I was thinking, too! I'm no accountant but I’ve run the math and sadly I'm not. Still… it’s a milestone all the same...

Five Places We Would Like to go and why By Joyce and Jim Lavene What a fun way to say something about our new book, A Dickens of a Murder!  As writers and readers we can travel places many people can never hope to visit. It’s as easy to go to Mars or explore under the seas as it is to go down the block to the grocery store. We’ve indulged our imaginations to travel around the universe which makes it hard to choose five places we’d like to go. But we’ll give it a whirl! Note from the bloghost: It is with great sadness I report the passing of Joyce Lavene. She died Oct. 20th at the age of 61 not long after writing this post. Although I never had the pleasure of meeting Joyce, I was honored that she stopped by my blog. It is a common sentiment that she was an intelligent, funny, talented woman born to write. My thoughts and prayers go out to her husband Jim, her children and grandchildren. Please feel free to leave a message below and please enjoy some of her final...

Hi there I’m Stella McLeod. I write paranormal and contemporary romance but like all authors there’s more to me than that. I am a Clinical Psychologist and I’m also a trained chef. (Elizabeth Russell’s French Cookery School, London and The Cordon Bleu, London).  My new release is a paranormal romance, Always Have and Always Will, about an Immortal ancient warrior and his long dead partner who has been reincarnated after 2000 years as a modern woman. Some people say authors are born not made, I think authors are just people who decide they want to write. The only problem is that once you begin you don’t want to do anything else.  I decided I wanted to write when I was a teenager. I was abysmal at Maths, Physics and Chemistry but I was good at English so I entered competitions and started winning awards. And that old adage about positive reinforcement strengthening behaviour is true. But what I didn’t know and wasn’t to learn until I became a Clinical Psychologi...