Come on over to Mystery Lovers Kitchen today and learn more about Bran New Death, AND get a great recipe for bulk muffins... makes dozens!
http://www.mysteryloverskitchen.com/2013/08/Bran-New-Death-Victoria-Hamilton-Muffins.html?showComment=1376839243822#c6820183470889016117
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Bran New Death Blog tour coming!!
I have been soooo super busy writing, but I do hope everyone is having a wonderful summer. I've been enjoying the garden, and the roses are lovely this year!! Last year was a bad year for roses, but this summer is making up for it.
Anyway, I've been finishing up the writing of Book 2 of my Merry Muffin Mystery series, Muffin But Murder, just in time to do the blog tour for the release of Book 1 - Bran New Death.
I'm so excited! It starts August 30th, and I can't wait - I'll post all the dates and places as I get closer - and I also have one early stop at the wonderful Mystery Lover's Kitchen. I'll be posting my mom's recipe for Fresh Bran Muffin a Day!
I am so super excited and I hope hope hope Bran New Death does well.Oh, BTW, my website has been updated with all the pre-order links for the book through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.
And then just two months later, November 5th, comes the third book of the Vintage Kitchen Mysteries, Freezer I'll Shoot. I'll be doing a full book tour for that, too! I'm going to enjoy this autumn.
See you soon!
Friday, June 21, 2013
I'm a Fresh Pick!!!
And in other news... here is the cover for Freezer I'll Shoot... visit Killer Characters today and comment for a chance to win books 1 and 2, and a tote and pen!!
http://www.killercharacters.com/2013/06/summertime-and-livin-is-uneasy.html
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Blog Tour Alert!
For the next little while I will be doing a blog tour to support Bowled Over... I have had so much fun writing guest posts. Thank you to all the wonderful bloggers who do so much to support writers! I may also spill a secret or two along the way, and stuff about my upcoming books!!
Also... check out the info at the bottom for a cool giveaway in conjunction with the tour!
So here's the schedule. Drop in, and if you have any questions, I'll be checking the blogs out throughout the days, so ask away!!
April 29th - A Blue Million Books - Read a Q&A with me, but also with Jaymie! Find out what she wishes I'd let her do... wink, wink!
April 30th - Melina the Reader Did a fun little interview today... thanks so much, Melina!
May 1st - Bea’s Book Nook Bea has some awesome questions, a real in depth interview!
May 2nd - Book Of Secrets Interested in some of the characters from Vintage Kitchen Mysteries and their secrets? Check it out as I spill some!
May 3rd - Omnimystery What a fun Q&A this was to do! I got to talk about my writing process... or processes!!
May 4th - Shelley Reads & Reviews
May 5th - Cozy Up with Kathy
I had such fun at Kathy's blog! She asked great questions, such as WHY my Vintage Kitchen Mysteries are set where they are.
May 7th - A Year of Jubilee Reviews Why vintage and why kitchen when it comes to collecting? Read on to find out. Second stop today: Read Your Writes
Come on down to the Idea Factory and check out where a mystery writer gets her ideas!
May 8th – A Chick Who Reads Today read an excerpt, that moment when everything starts to go wrong for Jaymie in Bowled Over!
May 9th - Off
May 11th - Brooke Blogs My top 9 vintage buys ever! & Mochas, Mysteries & More A fun interview with Melissa!
May 12th - Chloe Gets a Clue
Chloe chats with Jaymie about everything that's going on in Queensville, Michigan!
This tour was expertly organized by Cozy Mystery Marketing, and I can't believe what a fantastic job Bella and the gang do!!
Saturday, April 13, 2013
I Destroyed My Mom's Pot
It's true, I did it. I set fire to my Mom's pot and destroyed it.
Now, don't get excited... it was actually just before New Year's Eve twenty some odd years ago. I was putting the turkey carcass on the stove to boil for soup, as I always do. My niece was over and we were all getting ready for New Year's Rockin' Eve, but we needed some snacks, so we headed out to the store.
And I forgot that I had turned the pot up to high to get it boiling.
We came back to find that it had boiled dry in the meantime and the place was filled with smoke and I almost burned the place down. It sounds funny now, but I was scared and ashamed that I had been so careless.
And my mom's vintage Wearever Dutch oven pot was destroyed, with about three inches of burned crud stuck to the bottom. My mom took it away to try to get it clean, but it was a goner and she tossed it. I still have the rest of the set, now sixty years old or more and use it often, but man, I wish I hadn't destroyed my mom's pot! I have since found a similar one that I use as my soup pot now, but I will never EVER leave it on the stove when I go out!
Here is a fascinating site of great photos of Wearever products: http://pages.morethanmccoy.com/8731/InventoryPage/1558931/1.html
Now, don't get excited... it was actually just before New Year's Eve twenty some odd years ago. I was putting the turkey carcass on the stove to boil for soup, as I always do. My niece was over and we were all getting ready for New Year's Rockin' Eve, but we needed some snacks, so we headed out to the store.
And I forgot that I had turned the pot up to high to get it boiling.
We came back to find that it had boiled dry in the meantime and the place was filled with smoke and I almost burned the place down. It sounds funny now, but I was scared and ashamed that I had been so careless.
And my mom's vintage Wearever Dutch oven pot was destroyed, with about three inches of burned crud stuck to the bottom. My mom took it away to try to get it clean, but it was a goner and she tossed it. I still have the rest of the set, now sixty years old or more and use it often, but man, I wish I hadn't destroyed my mom's pot! I have since found a similar one that I use as my soup pot now, but I will never EVER leave it on the stove when I go out!
Here is a fascinating site of great photos of Wearever products: http://pages.morethanmccoy.com/8731/InventoryPage/1558931/1.html
Monday, March 18, 2013
And the winners are...
I haven't heard from the winners in my contest at Mystery Lovers Kitchen yet. If you commented to enter to win, check out the page to see if you're one of the lucky two!!
http://www.mysteryloverskitchen.com/2013/03/and-winners-are.html
http://www.mysteryloverskitchen.com/2013/03/and-winners-are.html
Monday, March 11, 2013
Another chance to win Bowled Over...
Hey, all... today I am at Dru Ann's blog. Come on over and read a day in the life of Valetta Nibley, pharmacist, then comment for a chance to win a copy of Bowled Over!http://notesfromme.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/valetta-nibley/
BTW, so far the reviews have been so great!
Here are a few:
Michelle at Michelle's Romantic Tangle: http://mychellem.blogspot.ca/2013/03/whatcha-reading-bowled-over-by-victoria.html
Laura Hinds at MyShelf: http://www.myshelf.com/mystery/13/bowledover.html
Sunday, March 3, 2013
I'm at Mystery Lovers Kitchen!
I also give you a wonderful recipe to use for your fmaily... cheap, easy and delicious Arroz Con Pollo, which is a fancy way of saying Spanish Rice and Chicken.
Thank you to the folks at Mystery Lovers Kitchen for having me!!
Victoria Hamilton at Mystery Lovers Kitchen
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Bowled Over - March 5th
But with Bowled Over coming out next Tuesday, March 5th, I thought I had better update a whole lot of things! I have had my website updated, and the links are up to pre-order Bowled Over! Readers may not know this, but you can help your favorite book series continue by ordering books in advance, or buying them during their first week of publication, as bestseller lists, etc., do help get contracts!
I know it can get expensive, especially considering how many great books are coming out on the same day, so I suppose as readers we need to prioritize! I do believe that the fact that A Deadly Grind became a national bestseller has helped with my next bit of news...
I have been contracted for two more Vintage Kitchen Mystery books! WooHoo!! So there will be books 4 & 5.
So now... in Bowled Over Jaymie comes face to face with a killer so devious, I hope you will be mystified until the reveal! Does that sound like I'm trying to be a magician, and hope to abracadabra, presto, surprise and amaze you with the denouement?? I guess I am. Just call me the Amazing Victoria! LOL!
For the record, here are the Amazon and B&N links for Bowled Over:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Bowled-Over-Berkley-Prime-Crime/dp/0425251926/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360610419&sr=8-1&keywords=bowled+Over
Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bowled-over-victoria-hamilton/1111306823?ean=9780425251928
I'm making all kinds of blog appearances for the next few weeks. I'll update here as I get live links. Today,I am at Joyce and Jim Lavene's blog taking about romance in mysteries... are you for or against? Let me know! http://romanceofmystery.blogspot.ca/2013/02/to-romance-or-not-by-victoria-hamilton.html
See you soon!!
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
The Next Big Thing
Hey, all,
I was tagged by Erika Chase to participate in The Next Big Thing, a fun, interesting kind of blog chain!
Have a look at Erika Chase's blog, for an idea of what I mean: http://www.mysterymavencdn.blogspot.ca/2012/11/wicked-wednesdays_28.html
So, in The Next Big Thing, I'm supposed to answer ten questions about my WIP, or Work In Progress!
First, an explanation: I am, of course, the author of Vintage Kitchen Mysteries, and last year I was thrilled to sign a contract for a new series, Merry's Muffins and Mysteries! Then I heard that Berkley was looking for an author to write a series based on an idea they had for a Teapot Collector cozy mystery series.
Well!!
I collect teapots (a few, I don't have room for many!) and teacups. I would collect more if I had the room, but I photograph teapots wherever I go, too!! I was thrilled when I got the job, and that is the book I am working on right now, Book 1 in that series, which I will be writing under the pseudonym Amanda Cooper. By the way, those names have a family connection I'll probably talk about some day.
So... on to the ten questions!
1 - What is the working title of the book?
Tempest in a Teapot. After I thought of it I heard about Kari Lee Townsend's Tempest in the Tea Leaves, (more about her later!) but the titles are similar but not identical so I figure it's okay!!
2 - Where did the idea for the book come from?
Well, actually, this is MUCH different than my usual way of working in that the idea came from someone else, my editor at Berkley, the wonderful Michelle Vega. I only hope I take her vision and make her proud! Of course, I have lots of latitude, so the book truly is being shaped by me.
3 - What genre does the book fall under?
Cozy Mystery of course!!
4 - Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
Hmm... tough one. Sophie Freemont Taylor should be played by Michelle Monaghan, (she was in Made of Honor with Patrick Dempsey, among other things) I think. She's a little older than 27 year old Sophie, but she's beautiful, dark haired, with an intelligent good girl aura that would suit Sophie well. Nana would be perfectly played by Betty White, and Thelma Mae Earnshaw, one of the more colorful characters in the book, (she's a quirky senior) could be handled marvelously by Cloris Leachman.
5 - What is a one sentence synopsis of your book.
Sophie Freemont Taylor, back in Gracious Grove, New York to help her Nana with her tearoom, worries that a fatal poisoning at the tearoom next door is going to be pinned on cantankerous Thelma Mae Earnshaw, so she and her Nana and friends try to figure out who wanted influential matriarch (and Sophie's best friends future mother-in-law) dead.
6 - Who represents you and who is publishing the book?
It will be published by Berkley Prime Crime. I am represented by BookEnds Literary Agency.
7 - How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
I'll let you know when I'm done!
8 - What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
Well, it's by me, so inevitably it will be in a similar tone to A Deadly Grind, my first Vintage Kitchen Mystery! But pick any one of the books by my Killer Characters' compatriots and you'll get the same kind of coziness!!
9 - Who or what inspired you to write this book?
My wonderful editor gave me the basics of the plot and characters, and I'm working on fleshing it out!
10 - What else about your book might pique the reader's interest?
A couple of things, I suppose... my editor was very specific about the kind of cat that Sophie's Nana has, a Birman. Now, I had never seen a Birman before, but they are gorgeous, very Persian-like, with with amazing coloring and markings! I can't wait to see if they put her on the cover. But other than that, I hope they like the very cozy elements of the setting, a tearoom, and the plotting is always super important to me!
The Next Big Thing chain is supposed to have five writers linked to it, but at this busy time of year I only found one writer able to commit the time and energy necessary, but what a writer she is! I am pleased to link to Kari Lee Townsend.
Here is the blog she participates in on Wednesdays: http://www.mysteriesandmargaritasblogspot.com/
And here is her website! http://www.karileetownsend.com/index.html
Shout out to you, Kari!
I was tagged by Erika Chase to participate in The Next Big Thing, a fun, interesting kind of blog chain!
Have a look at Erika Chase's blog, for an idea of what I mean: http://www.mysterymavencdn.blogspot.ca/2012/11/wicked-wednesdays_28.html
So, in The Next Big Thing, I'm supposed to answer ten questions about my WIP, or Work In Progress!
First, an explanation: I am, of course, the author of Vintage Kitchen Mysteries, and last year I was thrilled to sign a contract for a new series, Merry's Muffins and Mysteries! Then I heard that Berkley was looking for an author to write a series based on an idea they had for a Teapot Collector cozy mystery series.
Well!!
I collect teapots (a few, I don't have room for many!) and teacups. I would collect more if I had the room, but I photograph teapots wherever I go, too!! I was thrilled when I got the job, and that is the book I am working on right now, Book 1 in that series, which I will be writing under the pseudonym Amanda Cooper. By the way, those names have a family connection I'll probably talk about some day.
So... on to the ten questions!
1 - What is the working title of the book?
Tempest in a Teapot. After I thought of it I heard about Kari Lee Townsend's Tempest in the Tea Leaves, (more about her later!) but the titles are similar but not identical so I figure it's okay!!
2 - Where did the idea for the book come from?
Well, actually, this is MUCH different than my usual way of working in that the idea came from someone else, my editor at Berkley, the wonderful Michelle Vega. I only hope I take her vision and make her proud! Of course, I have lots of latitude, so the book truly is being shaped by me.
3 - What genre does the book fall under?
Cozy Mystery of course!!
4 - Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
Hmm... tough one. Sophie Freemont Taylor should be played by Michelle Monaghan, (she was in Made of Honor with Patrick Dempsey, among other things) I think. She's a little older than 27 year old Sophie, but she's beautiful, dark haired, with an intelligent good girl aura that would suit Sophie well. Nana would be perfectly played by Betty White, and Thelma Mae Earnshaw, one of the more colorful characters in the book, (she's a quirky senior) could be handled marvelously by Cloris Leachman.
5 - What is a one sentence synopsis of your book.
Sophie Freemont Taylor, back in Gracious Grove, New York to help her Nana with her tearoom, worries that a fatal poisoning at the tearoom next door is going to be pinned on cantankerous Thelma Mae Earnshaw, so she and her Nana and friends try to figure out who wanted influential matriarch (and Sophie's best friends future mother-in-law) dead.
6 - Who represents you and who is publishing the book?
It will be published by Berkley Prime Crime. I am represented by BookEnds Literary Agency.
7 - How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
I'll let you know when I'm done!
8 - What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
Well, it's by me, so inevitably it will be in a similar tone to A Deadly Grind, my first Vintage Kitchen Mystery! But pick any one of the books by my Killer Characters' compatriots and you'll get the same kind of coziness!!
9 - Who or what inspired you to write this book?
My wonderful editor gave me the basics of the plot and characters, and I'm working on fleshing it out!
10 - What else about your book might pique the reader's interest?
A couple of things, I suppose... my editor was very specific about the kind of cat that Sophie's Nana has, a Birman. Now, I had never seen a Birman before, but they are gorgeous, very Persian-like, with with amazing coloring and markings! I can't wait to see if they put her on the cover. But other than that, I hope they like the very cozy elements of the setting, a tearoom, and the plotting is always super important to me!
The Next Big Thing chain is supposed to have five writers linked to it, but at this busy time of year I only found one writer able to commit the time and energy necessary, but what a writer she is! I am pleased to link to Kari Lee Townsend.
Here is the blog she participates in on Wednesdays: http://www.mysteriesandmargaritasblogspot.com/
And here is her website! http://www.karileetownsend.com/index.html
Shout out to you, Kari!
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