Mary Louisa Locke's Monthly Newsletter

February 2025

Dear Reader,

While I slowly do the research necessary for the next full-length novel in my Victorian San Francisco mystery series (tentatively entitled Etched in Blood), I have also been playing around with the possible plot for a short story. This story will feature Mr. Wong, as well as reintroduce a few characters who will play a larger part in the next novel. It is my hope that I will be able to start putting this short story up as a draft on my daily newsletter, scene by scene, fairly soon, something that worked quite well for my last two novellas.

Meanwhile, I am continuing to put up my already published short stories, for free, in this my daily newsletter. This month the story is the Victorian San Francisco Mystery short story, Beatrice Bests the Burglars.

If you want to read/or reread any of the short stories I have put up in this fashion, click HERE to find where all the stories so far are listed, scene by scene or better yet, subscribe to the newsletter. With each story I try to give a little background, so you might want to start HERE for Beatrice Bests the Burglars.

More Discounts and Giveaways:

Do jump on over to this Valentine Author Takeover on Facebook that is going on today, where you will get to learn about and participate in giveaways by a whole group of us Historical Mystery Authors. I will be there on-line between 12:30 and 1 (Eastern Time), with my own giveaway of the ebook edition of Bloody Lessons, which as you may remember, includes lots of references to how the Victorians celebrated Valentine’s Day.

Speaking of Bloody Lessons, the audiobook edition of this book is discounted from $11.95 to $2.99 on Chirp, Apple, Barnes and Noble, and Spotify.

A reminder of my Ebook Perma-free books:

Maids of Misfortune: A Victorian San Francisco Mystery (Book 1) This first book in the series permanently free and you can get it on Kindle and all other Retailers.

Between Mountain and Sea: Caelestis Series (Book 1) This first book in the series is temporarily free and you can get it on Kindle and all other Retailiers.

AudioBook Spotify Giveaway:

I am once again giving away codes that will permit you to download audiobooks on Spotify. This month’s winners will get a code to download Uneasy Spirits. These codes are available primarily for listeners in US, UK, CA, Australia. All you have to do is reply to this email and tell me you wish to participate in the the giveaway by February 17, 2025. I ended up sending codes last month to 5 people, but only 2 have redeemed the codes, so do check your spam folders if you participated. Also, it is important that you reply to this email to participate (comments don’t work because then I don’t have your email address to tell you you’ve won!

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For more information about either my mystery or science fiction series, check out my website. For daily information on my journey as an indie author trying to age gracefully, check out my newsletter, An Aging Author’s Daily Diversions.