Dec 2018 Podcast with Toni L.P. Kelner (WRITING STUFF)

Toni L.P. Kelner talks to Julie Kelleher (WRITING STUFF) about the changes in marketing your book, as well as about her latest, THE SKELETON MAKES A FRIEND.

Leigh Perry (Toni Kelner) at Amazon.com.
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BIO: Leigh Perry is two authors in one. As Leigh Perry, she writes the Family Skeleton series about a adjunct English professor who solves mysteries with her best friend, Sid, an ambulatory skeleton. The fifth book in the series, The Skeleton Makes a Friend, was released in November 2018.

As Toni L.P. Kelner, she’s the author of eleven mystery novels: eight Laura Fleming mysteries and three "Where are they now?” mysteries, and has published a number of short stories. Along with New York Times bestseller Charlaine Harris, she’s co-edited a series of bestselling urban fantasy anthologies. Each features stories with an element of the supernatural, and the stories come from a rare mix of mystery and urban fantasy writers. The most recent are Games Creatures Play and Dead But Not Forgotten.

Kelner won the Agatha Award for Best Short Story for “Sleeping With The Plush,” and a Romantic Times BOOKreviews Career Achievement Award for Mystery Series in 2002. She has also been nominated multiple times for the Anthony, the Macavity, and the Derringer awards. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, Short Mystery Fiction Society, and Femmes Fatales.

Although born in Pensacola, Florida, and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, Kelner has lived in Massachusetts, for more than 30 years, and both daughters are native New Englanders. She and her husband live in Malden with one of the daughers, a guinea pig named Clara, and a ludicrous selection of books. Visit her websites at www.tonilpkelner.com and www.leighperryauthor.com.