Sunday, October 14, 2012

LET'S GET COZY: IF MASHED POTATOES COULD DANCE--A PREVIEW AND GIVEAWAY!

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IF MASHED POTATOES
 COULD DANCE
A Country Cooking School Mystery
BY PAIGE SHELTON

ABOUT THE BOOK:
At Gram’s Country Cooking School in Broken Rope, Missouri, Isabelle “Betts” Winston and her grandmother share the secrets of delicious home-style recipes. But there’s one secret they keep from their classes—their ability to talk to ghosts from the town’s colorful past…
Betts and Gram agree to help their friend Jake at Broken Rope’s Historical Society by accommodating some foodie tourists for the night and occupying them with cooking lessons. It couldn’t be worse timing when the pair encounter the ax-wielding ghost of Sally Swarthmore, one of Broken Rope’s legendary murderers, who pleads with Betts to help find her diary--a diary that could prove that Sally was really a victim, not a villain.
But they soon have a modern-day murder on their hands when one of the tourists turns up dead with a noose around his neck and two other tourists are nowhere to be found. Now Betts needs to put the cooking classes on the back burner to untangle two knotty mysteries and rope in a cold-blooded killer.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
As a kid, Paige moved around a bunch, but went to both high school and college in Des Moines, Iowa. After college, she spent many years working in advertising, mostly for the local Salt Lake City newspapers. Her attempts to become a published writer began in 1997, but it wasn’t until 2008 that the first contracts with her agent and Berkley Prime Crime were signed. 

Paige Shelton spent lots of years in advertising but now writes novels full time. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and son. When she’s up early enough, one of her favorite things is to watch the sun rise over the Wasatch Mountains.

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 COULD DANCE,TO GIVE AWAY TO ONE READER
 
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105 comments:

  1. This sounds like a great series! I'd love to be entered into this giveaway.

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  2. This sounds like a fun series. Interesting that the main character and her Grand can hear ghosts.
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  3. I found it interesting on Paige S's site that she started writing at age 7.

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  4. This is such a great series - it's an automatic entry! Love the titles.
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  5. I would love to see who did it. I love cozy mysteries.
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  11. I would like to go to Gram's country cooking school!!

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  14. I love the idea of ghosts in Cozies.

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  18. I did not realize that Ms. Shelton had moved so much as a child.

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  19. I have posted the giveaway:

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  20. I love the idea of Beth and her gandmother teaching the "foodie"tourists homestyle cooking.

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  21. I tweeted: http://t.co/WXG0iKAg

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  22. From her website, I went to the author's link to learn more about her writing life. She said that when I have an agent who thinks she knows more about you than you do yourself, then you have the right agent!

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  34. An entertaining series. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com

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  35. I am an e-mail subscriber. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com

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  36. The author has been writing since very young. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com

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  37. A wonderful series. elliotbencan(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  38. I a an e-mail subscriber. elliotbencan(at)gmail(dot)com

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  39. The author has written The Farmers Market Series which looks special. elliotbencan(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  40. I decided I wanted to read this book as soon as I saw the title---I have a mighty strange picture of dancing potato globs in my mind that is just making me chuckle.
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  41. I learned on the author's website that she has a new book "A Killer Maize" in her Farmer's Market series coming out it December.
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  42. I am an email subscriber.
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  53. +1 The idea of tourists in danger is an interesting part of the plot. I also like the cooking classes and the title of the cozy is wonderful.

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  55. Love this series- love the cooking aspect of it!

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  56. +1 Paige is very interesting. I learned how she moved around from place to place growing up because of her father's job. I also read about her love of books and music. It was fun reading about the poem she wrote about a kite while a child. She loves nature too.

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  58. I love that it's a cooking school.
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  60. They are certainly busy...cooking school by day, ghosts and a murder by night. I'd love to see how they solve all of these problems.

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  61. She wrote her first poem at age seven.

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  67. First off I love reading cozy mysteries and I just get a kick out of these crazy titles which make me want to read them all the more
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  68. It looks like a fun cozy mystery with a catchy title!
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  72. She started writting at the age of seven when she wrote a poem. She moved around alot as a child too.
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  79. I live near Des Moines. She said that she lived there a long time!
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  86. It sounds like a good book and I love cozy mysteries. I have two of her other books.

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  87. 37Southern Cooking and Ghosts? what a great combo....would love to read this one.

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  90. I really enjoyed the first book in the series, can't wait to read this one too! Thanks!
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  98. "their ability to talk to ghosts from the town’s colorful past"-- that is what attracted me to the book!

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