A Signing with Sophie Littlefield and Hailey Lind

On Tuesday September 28^th, 2010 at 6pm there will be a signing with a trio of talented authors.  Joining us at Prince Books will be, Carolyn J. Lawes, Julie Goodson-Lawes (who write under the pen name Hailey Lind) and Sophie Littlefield. 

Hailey Lind is the pseudonym for two sisters; one an artist and the other a historian. Together they write the Art Lover’s Mystery Series.

One-half of Hailey, Carolyn J. Lawes, is an Associate Professor of History at Old Dominion University, where she specializes in women’s history.  Besides writing mystery novels with her sister, she has published numerous academic articles and reviews along with one major book, Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815-1860. She has won both college and university teaching awards and was voted “Favorite Professor” in 1996. She speaks French with a distinct American accent and leaves the art to her sister.

The other half of Hailey, Julie Goodson-Lawes, is a San Francisco Bay Area muralist and portrait painter with her own faux finishing and design business. She is a nationally best-selling author of paranormal mysteries under her other pseudonym, Juliet Blackwell. She has published several non-fiction articles on immigration as well as one book-length translation and has lived in Mexico, Spain, Italy, the Philippines, and France.

They will be promoting their latest book Arsenic and Old Paint, by Hailey Lind (4th in series).

Also at Prince book on this date will be Sophie Littlefield

She will be promoting her first novel (A Bad Day For Sorry, St. Martin’s Minotaur) features a rural Missouri housewife-turned-vigilante. It was nominated for the 2010 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel, as well as the Anthony, Macavity and Barry Awards for Best First Novel. It won the Reviewers Choice Award for Best First Mystery of 2009 by RT BookReviews Magazine, and appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle and IMBA bestseller lists. Her young adult novel, Banished, will be released by Delacorte in October 2010. Her post-apocalyptic suspense series for Harlequin Luna will debut in March 2011. Her award-winning short stories have appeared in a variety of publications. Sophie lives in Northern California with her family.