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Beth Groundwater's Author Newsletter

First Edition, October, 2006

We have a winner!

About a week ago, my email newsletter list reached 100 addresses, so I ran the www.random.org random number generator that uses atmospheric noise and picked the first gift basket winner. I emailed her to ask what type of basket she would like and if I could publish her name. She chose the chocoholic basket. My kind of gal! The winner is:

    Karen Duvall from Bend, Oregon

Now, those of you who did not win, DON'T DESPAIR! You still have many more chances to win a gift basket. When my email list reaches 200 addresses, I will draw a random number from ALL the addresses, so you first 100 will have another chance. Same goes when the list hits 300, 400, 500, and so on. So, by signing up early, you get more chances to win. Encourage all of your mystery-reading friends to join to increase your odds. The sooner they sign up, the better their odds are, too!

Website updates

I handed my dear hubby a list of website updates last week, and he's been hard at work implementing them. You'll see changes to the Books page (read the excerpts!), Press Kit page, and a new list of Appearances. Also, I've added a FAQ, a photo with my acquisition editor, a recipe for a mystery lover's gift basket, and a cover photo of the Map of Murder anthology in which I have a short story. I'm still waiting anxiously for the cover photo of A Real Basket Case!

Blog entries

Have you stopped by my blog lately at

    bethgroundwater.blogspot.com?

Here's a sampling of topics I have reported on:

My search for my second literary agent.

Visiting the Denver Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a tour with the local chapter of Sisters in Crime.

A "Whine, Jeeze, and Chocolate" Rejection Party where we writers celebrated our rejections with wine, cheese, and desserts and competed for prizes in such categories as snarkiest, slowest, most, etc.

A Day with Mysteries workshop in Longmont, CO where I spoke on a panel about Characters that Count.

A Firearms Familiarization Class where I got to shoot a 9mm handgun, a .357 Magnum revolver, a civilian version of an M-16 rifle, and an AK-47!