BLACKJACK is now available in E Book and CD ROM from Synergebooks.com and the hardcover is available from me--go to the order form page--for a special author price of $15! It will also be available soon, along with all six Jake Samson mysteries (they've already done the first two) from Books in Motion audiobooks.

E-book's $6.60, CD ROM is $5.95. Or maybe it's the other way around...and when I figure out how to put a photo on a website, I'll show you the new cover for the new versions.

The rest of this is written in the third person, because that makes it sound like I have a staff.

Shelley Singer is the author of 13 published novels. BLACKJACK's the most recent, from Five Star Press, written as Lee Singer and starring Rica Marin, spy, torch singer, and mercenary in the dangerous Balkanized world of 2066. Available from Amazon and other online bookstores, and the hardcover will soon be available here on this website.

Also new and available from Amazon--the third Vintage Voices anthology, Four Part Harmony, put together by the Redwood Branch of the California Writers Club, a beautiful paperback toast to life by a collection of wine country writers. Like last year's, It includes an excerpt from the novel that Shelley is working on now--"Daddy and the Hundred Pigs."

Meanwhile, take a look at the Newest Release and Complete List of Works pages on this website for more information about Blackjack and Shelley's other books. There are six in her Jake Samson-Rosie Vicente series, most recently Royal Flush, published in 1999 by Perseverance/John Daniel and Company. Unlicensed iconoclast Jake Samson and his pal Rosie, a former carpenter who doesn't "want to be schlepping two by fours" while having hot flashes, are PIs in the San Francisco Bay Area. One of the books in the Barrett Lake series, Interview with Mattie, was nominated for a prestigious Shamus award.

Shelley or Lee or whatever you want to call her has taught fiction writing and has worked one on one with writers as a manuscript consultant on nonfiction, literary novels and in every genre from memoir to mystery to science fiction to horror. Several clients and students have gone on to become published authors. She has been cited in the acknowledgments or dedications of several published books, including a number of award-winners. Recently, a student called her "insanely meticulous"--and meant it as a compliment. We think.

Singer grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began her working life as a reporter with UPI in Chicago. During a checkered and mercifully brief journalism career, she met many famous people, at least two of whom were murdered, and many not-so-famous who are still alive.

She has done too many things for a living.
 

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