{"id":6392,"date":"2016-10-08T01:05:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T05:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=6392"},"modified":"2016-09-11T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T17:35:00","slug":"halloween-guest-mary-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=6392","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Guest: Mary Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Author Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Mary Martinez
\nA Favorite Horror or Halloween-Themed Movie:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>1980 The Shining.<\/span><\/p>\n

Author Bio:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary lives in Magna, a little town west of Salt Lake City, Utah. Together with her husband, she has six grown children, and six wonderful grandsons and five beautiful granddaughters. She loves to spend time with family and friends\u2013she includes good books as friends!<\/p>\n

Mary writes mostly romantic suspense, romance, women\u2019s fiction, and she has just begun to dabble in young adult mystery. During her writing career she has been a conference coordinator, workshop presenter, and chapter president for the Utah Chapter of Romance Writers of America. In 2007 she was presented with the Utah RWA service award in acknowledgment and appreciation for outstanding service.<\/p>\n

Mary and her husband love to travel, especially to the Caribbean for relaxing, and Italy for the wine. And most recently she discovered she was Irish and Scottish, of course they had to visit Ireland and Scotland. Mary fell in love with both, but the green hills of Ireland felt like home.\u00a0 With the experience from the exotic places she has visited, she is able to fill her books with colorful descriptions of cities, painting a colorful backdrop for her characters.<\/p>\n

They are avid concert \u2018Ho\u2019s\u2019! Yes, they pretty much want to do them all. They love outdoor amphitheaters the best and attend as many during the warmer months as possible.<\/p>\n

Mary and her husband are also enthusiastic college football fans. They have season tickets to the UTES, University of Utah Football and they tailgate every game. They love tailgating so much, that they were married at a tailgating in 1999.<\/p>\n

GO UTES!<\/p>\n

Author Links:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Video Bio:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ISsOcM0kyzY<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.marymartinez.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Facebook:\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Author-Mary-Martinez-1375378959454858\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Twitter:\u00a0https:\/\/twitter.com\/marylmartinez<\/a><\/p>\n

Instagram: mlmartinez3<\/p>\n

Google +:\u00a0https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/b\/102169317869219350490\/102169317869219350490\/posts<\/a><\/p>\n

Pinterest:\u00a0https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/marylmartinez3\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Mary\u2019s Garden Blog:\u00a0http:\/\/marysbooksblogger.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The After Work Cook Blog:\u00a0http:\/\/theafterworkcook.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

You Tube:\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTww3B2ofa11UPFrSe0WGAg<\/a><\/p>\n

Book Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Classic Murder: Mr. Romance
\nBlurb:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adam enjoys a lifestyle most men only dream of. Then one day he wakes up to find the morning headlines blaring, \u201cAnother victim falls prey to Mr. Romance. Who is next?\u201d He suddenly realizes his way of life is not only frivolous, but deadly.<\/p>\n

Dubbed Mr. Romance by New York society for his romantic adventures, Adam Fernando Russo loves women. But lately he realizes how lonely it is coming home to an empty house. Can he settle for only one woman? After he makes a list of qualities worthy enough to merit giving up his desirable existence, suddenly recipients of his coveted attention mysteriously fall prey to a murderer. The murders seem unrelated with one exception\u2013all the victims have recently returned from a fabulous weekend rendezvous with Mr. Romance.<\/p>\n

Adam\u2019s assistant, Katie Sinclair, knows Adam is innocent with airtight alibis. The police are at a loss so Adam and Katie work together to discover the link between the murders. As luck would have it, their plan to prove the murderer is copying classic Cary Grant movies goes astray just as Adam realizes his perfect woman has been by his side all along.<\/p>\n

Book Purchase Link(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amazon:\u00a0https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Classic-Murder-Romance-Mary-Martinez-ebook\/dp\/B01BIT6DW0<\/a><\/p>\n

Barnes and Noble:\u00a0http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/classic-murder-mary-martinez\/1100397979?ean=2940158188251<\/a><\/p>\n

Kobo:\u00a0https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/classic-murder-mr-romance-2<\/a><\/p>\n

iBook:\u00a0https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/classic-murder-mr.-romance\/id1114636383<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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