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    The Salacious Scribes Mystery
    The Salacious Scribes Mystery
    The Salacious Scribes Mystery
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    The Salacious Scribes Mystery

    By Louise Hathaway

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    "I never imagined when I joined an erotic romance writing group that one of us would be killed at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. It had all started out so fun." So begins this humorous and PG-Rated romantic cozy mystery about the relationships between writers and what happens when one of them is killed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLouise Hathaway
    Release dateAug 12, 2017
    ISBN9781370356010
    The Salacious Scribes Mystery
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    Louise Hathaway

    Louise Hathaway is a pen name of a husband and wife writing team. They write in several different genres including murder/ mystery; romance, travel, time travel, and literary criticism.

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      The Salacious Scribes Mystery - Louise Hathaway

      Other Books by Louise Hathaway:

      Torn Between Two Lovers: A Civil War Romance

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      Travelers in Time Aboard the California Zephyr

      Travelers in Time: A Search for the Missing

      Murder Aboard the Coast Starlight

      Fighting Demons: A New Orleans Mystery

      Deadly Promises: A New Orleans Mystery

      50 Shades of Dead: A New Orleans Mystery

      The Tustin Chronicles: A Detective Santy Mystery

      The Murder at the Abbey: A Detective Santy Mystery

      Honeymoon in Savannah: A Detective Santy Mystery

      The Body on Ortega Highway: A Detective Santy Mystery

      The Ghost in the Plantation: A Nancy Keene Mystery

      The Buried Treasure on Route 66: A Nancy Keene Mystery

      The Stolen Mask: A Nancy Keene Mystery

      The Stolen Masterpiece: A Nancy Keene Mystery

      The Missing Bachelor Farmer: A Nancy Keene Mystery

      Watchin’ the Detective: A Mystery Dinner Romance

      Death Among the Stacks: The Body in the Law Library

      The Summer of Love: A Trip Back to 1968

      Our First Year Raising a Jack Russell Terrier Puppy (and Then Some)

      The Forgotten Sister: A Sequel to Pride and Prejudice

      England in the Footsteps of its Literary Giants

      Chasing My Roots: New World Finally Meets Old World

      Honeymoon in New Orleans

      Our Bluebird Family (free)

      Planning A Vacation? Why Not Chicago? (free)

      These titles are literary essays:

      Marriage in Pride and Prejudice

      The Oedipus Complex in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers

      Nags, Sluts, and a Deep-breasted Soulmate from the Shining City:

      The Women in Thomas Wolfe’s The Web and The Rock

      The Salacious Scribes Mystery

      by Louise Hathaway

      Copyright: Louise Hathaway 2017

      Smashwords Edition 2017

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      Chapter One

      I never imagined when I joined an erotic romance writing group that one of us would be killed at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. It had all started out so fun.

      When I first heard that my writing group wanted to reserve a booth there, I couldn’t make up my mind if I wanted to go or not until my husband convinced me.

      He said, You gotta go. It’s a great venue. There will be plenty of people willing to pay for erotic romances.

      Good point! I thought.

      You may ask why my husband is so liberal and supportive about me writing in this genre? The truth is that he loves my stories. Sometimes, he reads them aloud with me in bed, and we have extremely hot sex afterward. Lucky me!

      But—before I continue, I must tell you our ages. He is a smokin’ hot 63-year-old and I’m a year younger.

      My life-long dream has always been to make money as a writer. It is a tough field, and the competition is fierce. My area of concentration in graduate school was 19th century British female writers like Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, and George Eliot. Unfortunately, these women writers were appreciated only after they had passed away.

      I couldn’t help but wonder what my professors would say if they knew that I wrote erotic romances. I haven’t always written in this genre: I primarily wrote mysteries such as police procedurals and cozy, Agatha-Christie type whodunits.

      My love affair with the written word started when I was a junior in high school and listened to my brother’s Bob Dylan’s albums over and over again.

      I attempted to write in Dylan’s style. My poems were amateurish—to say the least, but I kept writing. I had a bit of confidence that I was an okay writer because my teachers often encouraged me when I was growing up. After graduation, I made many trips to the post office to send out my short stories without success.

      I hoped and prayed that someone would eventually recognize my potential and the money would soon start rolling in. The problem was that I couldn’t get a publisher to accept my stories.

      Fast forward to retirement four years ago, when one Sunday, as I was reading the L.A. Times, I came across an article about how indie writers were using websites like Smashwords and Kindle Direct Publishing to publish their books. I was surprised when I read that writers didn’t have to pay a cent. On Amazon, they earned 70% royalty for each book sold and Amazon kept the other 30%.

      On Smashwords, the royalty was even higher; so, I always started there. Their website teaches writers how to properly format their books. It just took a little time and patience to get it right. Once approved by Smashwords, the book was then reviewed by their team of editors and, if it passed their inspection, it was then sent to other eBook stores such as Apple, Barnes and Noble, Kobo Books, Scribd (a subscription site like Netflix), and college and public libraries.

      It sounded like a pretty great deal to me; so, I gave it a shot.

      After a few years, I managed to write several more books and ended up making quite a tidy sum for my little creations.

      After a while, I wanted to try something new and noticed how popular romance novels were and started reading some of the bestsellers in that genre. I thought that the women who purchased these novels wanted an escape from their ordinary lives and needed to fantasize about a knight in shining armor who appeared from out of nowhere and came to protect, rescue, and cherish them. Sounded good to me. I had always enjoyed reading the erotic romance novels by D. H. Lawrence, so I gave it a shot and penned one myself.

      The first erotic romance I wrote was a Cougar story under the pen name, "Sexy

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