 PERIL IN PAPERBACK Launch Party! Posted by Kate Carlisle Aug 6 2012, 12:05 am
PERIL IN PAPERBACK is the sixth book of my Bibliophile Mystery series, which means I am officially living the dream. A series with six books – and counting! (The next book will be A COOKBOOK CONSPIRACY, out in 2013.) I am so humbled by reader enthusiasm for these books. I love knowing that I’m not alone in the world with my somewhat freakish adoration of old books. PERIL IN PAPERBACK is an homage of sorts to the great Agatha Christie. A group of people – many of them strangers to each other – are trapped together in a remote mansion in the mountains. They’re there to celebrate the birthday of eccentric video game billionaire Grace Crawford. They all know Grace, but they don’t all know each other. Grace has all sorts of “fun” planned for her guests… tarot readings, a séance… but murder was not on the agenda.
To celebrate the release of PERIL IN PAPERBACK, we’ve revved up the chocolate fountain, polished up the swinging chandeliers, and best of all … I’m going to tell your fortune today! No, really! Each commenter will get your very own fortune told by moi, your soothsayer for the day. (I would say “For entertainment purposes only,” but you all know me too well to take me seriously anyway, right?) One commenter will win a copy of PERIL IN PAPERBACK!
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here he comes again
Barb, congrats on the rooster!
Congratulations Kate on the next book release … I had better hurry up and read the last one as it is in the TBR plie….
1. 6
2. Men in an army camp
mango salsa
PERIL IN PAPERBACK lol
Hate to think what the fortunes will be after a few too many champagnes LOL
Barb,
First, congrats on nabbing the Golden One. Although he is not the love of your life, he will be a wild fling. (My first prediction of the day!)
And now, I must go into a trance… Paolo, fetch me a trace-inducing margarita!…. Let me gaze into my crystal ball….
The love of your life is not a military man, but he likes to watch action-packed military movies and TV shows. (He rolls his eyes at Army Wives.) He has secret dreams that, if ever called upon, he could step up and take care of the bad guy. He’s an Armchair Schwarzenegger.
Mango salsa is the instrument of your death. You will be 104 years old, being celebrated at a family reunion in the park, when you will take a bite of mango salsa that has a little too much jalapeno in it. Your great-great-grandson made it, and he’s just learning to cook. Your tongue will be burning, and you will rush as fast as your 104-year-old legs can take you to the punch bowl on the picnic table. A bird – wait, wait, the picture is becoming clearer – a hawk is, just at that moment, diving toward a squirrel on the ground near your feet. The movement startles you, and you have a sudden heart attack. You die instantly, without a moment of pain… except on your tongue.
Enjoy PERIL IN PAPERBACK!!!!
Kate, I’m so excited for your PIP release! It sounds like a fun (can murder be fun?, yikes!) read. I really do want to get it and read it!
Well, chose the number 3, googled my birthday month and year, and the photo image is the cover of a Harper’s Bazaar magazine with a pouting model (I thought it was Audrey Hepburn at first glance) wearing a black dress with gold and black buttons, holding sunglasses in her hand, and wearing a funky, zebra-striped hat. The hat is cute, but not crazy about those stripes and didn’t think that was popular in 19__. I think the model is trying to emulate Audrey Hepburn because it seems like a “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” look.
Deb, Deb, Deb… Sigh… The love of your life is a gay fashion designer. Your sex life will be the pits, but damn, you’re going to look good!
Love it. And ask Eve, gay fashion designers at least let you have a rest from all that partying!
Okay, 1963!
Kate,
Love forecast I pick 7, May 1980 I see a newspaper with something about Carter
Death forecast Melody & tan Pics I see are like models
Book forecast It’s your new release.
I have to say I’m interested in what my pics say.
Oops, I answered in the wrong spot, Melody. Scroll down to #7 to see your foretune!
1. a birthday cake. LOL
2. strawberries
3. Peril in Paperback. Amazing. How did it know that is on my TPR list. LOL
Patricia,
The love of your life was born on August 6. It’s his birthday today! He’s celebrating at Chuck E. Cheese because that’s the way he rolls. He likes to sing along with the animatronic “live” show. His kids, who are 13 and 15, are terribly embarrassed, but he won’t allow them to stay home.
Hmm… I’m not seeing a strawberry as the instrument of your death… no, that’s not right… Oh, I see!!! It’s a strawberry daiquiri. Or rather, four strawberry daiquiris that you will consume over the course of the most fantastic hour of your life on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. Your tipsiness will lead to tipping over the railing, and you will be lost at sea.
This does not bode well. I don’t like Chuckie Cheese. Way too salty. But the part about embarrassing the kids hits home a little too well. Whats not funny is that I am saving up to go on my first cruise and I absolutely love strawberry daiquiris. Wow is me that I either don’t go on the cruise or don’t drink while I am on it.
Thanks for the laugh, though.
Melody, the love of your life is a comic strip artist who fancies himself as the next Charles M. Schulz. He wants to bring comic strips back to simpler times, when a gentle chuckle a day was enough for people. His main characters are a group of Amish children, who know about the “modern” world but who have no desire to enter it. He’s a warm-hearted, lovely man, but he’s not destined for success, so you’ll be the breadwinner of the family.
I’m afraid I can’t give your death forecast. You have to tell me the first OBJECT that catches your attention. So no people, just an object.
Come back and share what object catches your eye, and I’ll complete your death forecast.
I hope your Book Forecast comes true!!!!
LOL! That’s funny a comic strip guy.
The object for the death forecast is a teddy bear. Now what does that mean.
Uh-oh! You will die in a shoot-out with a mall cop after you try to steal a teddy bear from one of those “Build Your Bear” stores. You just won’t be able to resist the bear’s sweet face, even though you can’t afford their outrageous prices.
LOL. Good there is no build bear around here. I guess I’m safe for the time being, for at least six years.
LOL!!!! Whew!
Book forcast showed Peril in Paperback.
It’s a dark and stormy forecast…
Hi kate,
1. i pick 6, april 1983, vogue magazine (spring griefing)
2. eli & white, nick jonas
3. PERIL IN PAPERBACK
Hi, Eli! I looked up the Vogue cover you saw, and it says “40 pages of the best news now.” The love of your life is a 40-year-old newspaper reporter. Right now, he’s nervous about his future because he doesn’t think newspapers will be around much longer. He’s trying to plan for his future, but still stay in the news business, so he is talking to some of the young, high-tech moguls he interviewed last year for a feature on up-and-coming internet businesses. He’s going to hit it big, and you are going to live the life of luxury!
I’m sorry, I can’t tell your death forecast, because you need to tell me what object catches your eye. (You said Nick Jonas, but he’s a person, not an object.) If you come back and tell me what object you see, I’ll be happy to tell your fortune.
I predict your Book Forecast will come true tomorrow!
then how about a kiss – pink lip
Hi Kate,
Congratulations on the release of Peril in Paperback,.
Love Forecast- Marlon Brando was on the cover of life magazine in his Mutiny on the Bounty costume. (Sounds like trouble to me.)
Gayle, oh, you lucky woman! The love of your life is an Anglophile living in Boston, who spends his weekends with a group of buddies, rebuilding an 18th-century British naval ship. But his regular job is as curator of the most fabulous private library, which belongs to a secret society of East Coast billionaires. As his wife, you will have access to all those glorious books!
Oh, no, Kate and Gayle, I’ve got a horrible feeling the Brit guy might take off with
Deb’s fashion designer. It’s all going to end in lipstick tears before it’s done!
Wooohooo Kate!
I’ve been waiting for this book. I just love this series. Very cool that this is an Agatha tribute.
Okay…off to check out the adventures.
Fun blog!
But where did you get such powers as this–to tell the fortunes of so many, so accurately. Are you part gypsy?
The all-seeing, all-knowing Kate Carlisle is famous for her powers of prognostication… you hadn’t heard???
Thanks for your happy thoughts about PERIL IN PAPERBACK, Cassondra! I hope you’ll love it!
1. A man laying down with a baby on his chest.
2. A woman painting her toenails.
3. Peril in Paperback (lol)
Yazmin,
The love of your life is a bad boy with a heart of gold. He’s a rebel. He thinks that he doesn’t want kids, but the moment he falls in love with you, he’ll be all in. He will see you and think, “I want this woman to be the mother of my children.” He’ll see his whole, happy life laid before him in that instant, and he will be yours.
After 33 happy years together with this former bad boy, you will die of an infection from a pedicure mishap. Ironically, the nail polish color will be Killer Red.
Hope you’ll love fulfilling your destiny by reading PERIL IN PAPERBACK!!!!! (Snork!!!!!)
Hi Kate! What a fun party! Congrats on the launch of Peril in Paperback. Can’t wait to read it! My answers are:
1) Elizabeth Taylor movie pin-up (I’m thinking this does not bode well for my love life.)
2) A rag doll
3) Peril in Paperback, of course!
PJ,
The signs are not always clear. Elizabeth Taylor was shown to you because she played Cleopatra, and the love of your life is an Egyptologist. Oh, he’s fabulous! He’s dashing and intellectual, with a keen curiosity about everything and everyone.
When you are in your late 90s, you will be in an antique store, and you’ll spot a sweet little rag doll on one of the upper shelves. As you reach for her, your handbag will swing off your shoulder and hit a rusted shovel that’s leaning against the same shelf. The handle of the shovel bumps your thigh and, startled, you jump back and fall into a little red wagon. The rag doll tumbles into your lap, and both of you slide through the store and into the jewelry counter. A black mannequin head teeters, then falls and hits you in the head. Your death is instant and peaceful, and makes the evening news.
Ooooo, PJ! Maybe he’ll look like Oded Fehr.
With that delicious hint of an accent!
Ooh, can I have the Egyptologist after PJ’s finished with him (thanks to the rag doll and all?). Deeply into Amelia Peabody at the moment and I’m sure I could cut it on a pyramid!
Congratulations on the new book, Kate. I hope this one does indeed soar to the top of the charts.
I really don’t want the death news, and I know your book is in my future. But I’ll choose the number 4, and the image I found when I googled was an art pring of a woman with a flat bike tire, the offending nail in hand.
Hi, Janga!!!! I love hearing that PERIL IN PAPERBACK is in your future. (Of course, I knew that. right… right…)
The love of your life is a millionaire with a passionate love of professional cycling. He’s not talented enough on a bike to be a racer, himself, but he doesn’t embarrass himself by wearing spandex shorts. He looks pretty good in them! He sponsors a team every year in the Tour D’France, and as his wife, you will travel to the French countryside once a year to cheer them on.
Okay, Love forecast my picture was a young Elvis!
Gonna be at the bookstore early tomorrow. Your book and Julie Garwood’s new book and Sherrilyn Kenyon’s new book are all being released tomorrow!!
Oh and in honor of the Bourne Legacy coming out Thursday, (I have a date with my son to see it), I’m bringing Jeremy Remer to the party to sample the chocolate…(ok, I plan to lick it off his body, but hey, it’s a party!)
Yes, Suzanne, you guessed it – the love of your life is an Elvis impersonator! He entertains weekends at a Howard Johnson’s near Graceland. During the week, he’s a business executive with inappropriate sideburns.
But until he arrives, have fun with Jeremy Remer!!!! LOL
Kate, a young Elvis impersonator complete with leather jacket I’ll take any day!! And oh my, Jeremy is just yummmy, chocolate or not!
Now Suz, i’ve told you time and again I’ll fight you for Jeremy!!!!
Addison
Addison and Suz, I think I could take both of you… I adore Jeremy Renner! Grins.
Hawkeye RULES!
What fun, Kate!
I think I married the love of my life, but what the heck – he’s mortal. Tell me about love #2. If it sounds good, husband #1 may have a shorter life than he thinks LOL.
My image is a copy of Motor Trend magazine. The subtitle says “Unique cars for the sportsman.” It’s a picture of a jeep with what looks to be a rifle holder on the passager door. Two men are in the car. One points to a small – out of proportion bear in the background. A dog happily runs alongside the car.
I tried the death image and got a page full of womens’ faces. OMG – THere are minions out to do me in! The one that caught my eye is a woman out in Utah that looks like the Raymond’s mother in Everybody Loves Raymond. She does not look happy.
Love, love, love the tribute to Agatha Christie. Can’t wait to read this one.
Donna, the (second) love of your life is an engineer who designs automobile accessories. He designed that rifle rack, a job he abhorred because he is a vegetarian. He is saving up all of his money toward the goal of one day quitting his job and moving to a tiny condo in Cozumel, where he’ll live off coconuts and mangos and the kindness of cruise ship passengers who hire him to give them tours of the island.
I’m afraid for the death forecast, I have to have an object, not a person.
(The spirits have exacting requirements, my friend…)
I hope you’ll love PERIL IN PAPERBACK!!! Cheers!!!!!!
LOL – given that the magazine came out in the year of my birth – love of my life #2 is an old geezer indeed
. Better brush up my Spanish and keep and eye out for love #3.
Si, senora!
I’m not sure I did it right lol.
A November calendar
A necklace
And of course your book lol.
I’m having a vision of the love of your life, and ooooooooh….. HELLO, MR. NOVEMBER! He’s a hottie, dressed like an American Indian in honor of Thanksgiving… one of those revealing native American outfits, not at all historically accurate. But WOW, niiiiiiice! You’re a very lucky woman.
For your 18th anniversary, he buys you a beautiful necklace and takes you out to dinner. As the maitre d’ is seating you, his cufflink catches on the back of your necklace. At that exact moment, a flambe on the other side of the restaurant spreads fire to the tablecloth. The maitre d’ leaps into action and accidentally strangles you. Your grief-stricken love sues the corporation that owns the restaurant and wins millions in punitive damages because your love was so pure and moving.
Oh, that’s fantastic. I so love your imagination. But of course that’s what makes you a great writer!
What a fun party, Kate! I’ll go with my book forecast, and the book on the page is Peril in Paperback. natch.
Congrats on the new book release!
LOL!!! Thanks, Trish. I hope you enjoy fulfilling the prophecy!!!!
Happy Release Day Eve, Kate. I’ll have to do the forecasts later, but I’m pretty sure we should be reading “Peril In Paperback” next.
Thanks, Jane! That’s really the only forecast that matters!
Kate
Whoo hoo I can’t wait to read this new one I am loving this series.
This sounds like lots of fun I hope I get time to go and do the things asked so as I can get my predictions LOL
Happy release day
Have Fun
Helen
Thank you, Helen!!!! I hope you’ll love PERIL IN PAPERBACK.
Kate, I had to giggle – I hear Adam agrees with you about all the good celebrations happening on the Eve. Snicker!!!
Of course, that means that the Morning Of is often… er… quiet. (Or we wish that it were!!!!) LOL
Popping in from my writing cave to give a big Whoo Hoo! for your latest release, Kate! Love your books and am so excited to read Peril in Paperback!!
Thank you, Beth!!!! I can’t believe that I’ve published six Bibliophile Mysteries now. It’s an amazing feeling. So lovely to celebrate with my friends in the Lair.
Kate, what a fun game. Clearly the love of my life has a big…SWORD: http://www.google.com/imgres?num=10&hl=en&biw=1680&bih=911&tbm=isch&tbnid=BRlcbqos-G4KNM:&imgrefurl=http://avaxnews.com/appealing/Art_Of_Caricature.html&docid=0vOuZHpE30rYmM&imgurl=http://pix.avaxnews.com/avaxnews/16/07/00000716_medium.jpeg&w=635&h=639&ei=iCIgULCfNe-WiQe8oIGACQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=995&vpy=136&dur=234&hovh=225&hovw=224&tx=122&ty=150&sig=118366800201108631320&page=1&tbnh=138&tbnw=137&start=0&ndsp=43&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0,i:90
It’s an Indonesian guy sculpting a very strange looking Steampunk Hobbit guy! With a SWORD!
Death forecast – oh, man, too creepy. Bright Red Machine gun (I kid you not!).
Seriously, Kate, I’ve read WAR AND PEACE. I don’t need to read it again…
Ha, gotcha! So looking forward to reading Peril in Paperback! Hope you sell a million!
ANNA!!!!!!!!! I can’t breathe, I’m laughing so hard!!!!!!!! That picture is hysterical!!!!
Composing myself….
It’s really hard to see the crystal ball when I have tears in my eyes from laughing!!!!!!
Ohm…. ohm….. Okay, I’m ready. The love of your life is neither Indonesian nor two feet tall. He is, however, such a hardbody that it appears he’s been carved out of stone. He has muscles on his muscles, with every sinew visible in the glistening sunlight.
But he’s dumb as a rock.
The object of your death is a water gun. You’ll be driving down the road, minding your own business, passing through a lovely little residential neighborhood. Two ten-year-old boys are having a water gun fight, and you are collateral damage. They shoot you in the face, you lose control of the car, and you drive into a back yard swimming pool, where you drown. The boys will never forget it and will grow up to become water rescuers in your honor.
Hmm, I’m liking this picture you paint, my murderously-intentioned friend! Who needs conversation when someone has a sword that big? Ooh, and I’m inspiring a generation of muscly lifeguards with my noble end (hmm, end is large, does that mean it’s noble too? Do these jeans make my end look noble?). Love it!
Oh. M. G.
Now my ribs hurt from laughing.
Perhaps that’s my mortal end, to LOL to death!!
(And no, the jeans look good. Noble too.)
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kate:
I’m so excited this book is finally out – I absolutely LOVE this series.
On my birthday Kevin Costner and a Baldwin brother popped up…..not quite sure what to make of that!
Addison
Hi, Addison!!! Thank you so much! I’m so glad that you’re enjoying the Bibliophile Mystery series.
The love of your life is a mild-mannered accountant from Fresno named Baldwin Costner. Look him up.
I love it!! I’ll get right on that!
Kate, congratulations on your new release! I’ll be picking it up this week.
What a fun game! Alas, but what image 7 in the first one was the Kent State memorial.
On my name a color, a blue crocheted potholder?
Thanks, Nancy!!! Hope you’ll love Brooklyn’s latest adventure. I had so much fun writing PERIL IN PAPERBACK! Imagining that mansion in Tahoe. It’s so beautiful up in the mountains. Of course, murder kind of puts a damper on things. LOL
Oh wow, now this is unusual. Usually, the information the spirits give me is very vague, but in your case, I can give you a specific website. The love of your life is one of the headstone guys, http://www.theheadstoneguys.com.
Too bad they don’t manufacture potholders. If they did, maybe you’d avoid your tragic fate. You will make Resusciation Brownies from the recipe I shared yesterday on Mystery Lovers Kitchen. When your thumb slips through a hole in a crocheted potholder, you will jerk back in a moment of pain, and your elbow will slam against the countertop. It hurts like the dickens, then swells, so you decide you’d better go to the ER. On your way to the hospital, you realize that you never did taste the brownies, and you need chocolate now more than ever. So you stop at a 7-11… right in the middle of an armed robbery. The robber tells you to put your hands up. But you can’t because you hurt your elbow. So he shoots you.
But justice prevails, and he is put in prison, if that makes you feel better.
OMG!!! SNORK!!!
Nancy, I’m so sorry….SNORK!!!
Oh, dear. I am clearly doomed. *sigh*
Oh, man, that’s hilarious! I mean, Nancy, I’m really cut up at your demise and all, but really, Kate, you’re a comic genius!
Ahhhh, lesseeee…..first of all CONGRATS!!!!!!
SO excited about the new book! Wahooo!
As to the game, my darling love is a photo of Dustin Brown, German professional tennis player. Very hot.
For #2, a woman in a very, very snug lacey black evening gown
#3, why Peril in Paperback of course!! (and yes it WILL be on my reading list this week!)
Oh, Jeanne, you don’t understand how the spirits work at all. You were shown a PICTURE of Dustin Brown, hot professional tennis player. Now it’s up to me, the psychic, to interpret that picture and tell you what it means.
The love of your life likes to play with his balls.
SNORK!!!!!!!! I’m so sorry!!!! I couldn’t resist!!!!!
Oh, that’s terrible. I should delete this comment. Or maybe I should post it quick before I have the chance to delete it.
You should NOT under any circumstances, delete this comment! DO NOT DELETE!
OMG! I’m LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Goodness me, the double entendres are flying like the balls between Murray and Federer – no comment!
Hahahah!!! OMG!!! SNORK!!!! Well…. *snorfles back laughter*
Okay, no comments!!!
Hahahahah!!!!
And now for your death forecast… You will be wearing said lacy black evening gown at a future RWA conference. Alone in your room, just wanting to feel fabulous, all by yourself. But then a knock comes on the door, and you race around the room, looking for something to throw on over your lacy black evening gown. You throw open the closet door and fling yourself inside.
But it’s not a closet. It’s a defunct elevator shaft, and you plummet to your death.
Shouting it’s all down from here? Grins.
Ahhh, Shafted in Death. Sounds like a book title…..
SNORK!!!
LOL!!!!! I *so* want to write that book!!!! Actually, it sounds like an erotica mystery series. Oh Lord, I can’t take it!
Soooooo many ways to go with that….HAHAHAHAH!!!
Or do that….
Or write that….
Or….SNORK!!! Better stop now!
Congratulations on the book! I’d like a book forecast. I saw the Peril in Paperback image.
That’s my favorite forecast of all, and I hope you all go forth and fulfill your Book Destiny this week by snatching up PERIL IN PAPERBACK!
YAY! Another Kate Carlisle book for me to read !!! Cannot WAIT !! CONGRATULATIONS !! And I am not surprised in the least at the longevity of the series. The books are MAHVELOUS!
I did the death forecast and I wish I hadn’t ! I searched my real first name and the color white and the most noticeable thing in the photographs was a woman with a large bust (and not the marble kind!) I shudder to think !
Thank you, Louisa!!!!!!!
Oh wow, the death forecast had a rule that it couldn’t be people, but had to be an object… but I think big, fake boobs go into the object category. I see smothering. Sorry. Such a sad way to go!
Wow, fortune telling! I think I’ll leave some mystery in my future but I’m thrilled to know there’s another Brooklyn Wainwright book to love! Can’t wait to pick it up! Congrats, Kate!
Thanks, Susan!!!
This was so much fun. I can’t tell how much I needed a good chuckle today. Thanks!
I’m glad you enjoyed it, Molly! I had so much fun!
For my love forecast
Number 7
Picture – the Cuban missile crisis
Carolyn, I’m sorry I didn’t see this sooner! Your love forecast is very exciting! The man of your dreams is a sexy Cuban-American ballplayer with a large and boisterous family. They’re going to love you and welcome you with open arms into the family fold.
If you want your Book Forecast:
Does it start with Peril?
Peril in Paperback is on that page. I can guess which book you’re going to tell me to read this week.
It does, Barbara! You must be psychic, too!!!
A belated congrats on Peril in Paperback, Kate! How VERY exciting! And LOL! Adding fortune telling to your list of amazing skills, too! ;D
Thanks, Fedora!
I would not want my fortune told thank you. I’m not brave enough even in jest. PERIL IN PAPERBACK does look wonderful.
Thank you, Mary!
I just have to say I went back and read everything and I haven’t laughed that hard in ages. Thank you!!!!!
I’m glad you enjoyed the predictions! I had a lot of fun!!!!!
No forecasts, future or otherwise for me, thank
you very much! I would rather be surprised!
I am excited about the launch of your newest
book & I look forward to reading it and the
cookbook-connected one! Sorry about mis-
sing the launch party, you know how I love to
party in the Lair!
Pat C.
Thank you for stopping by, Pat. You’re welcome any time!