The Adventures of Marisol Holmes

Win a charm bracelet to celebrate the cover reveal of The Sign Of The Serpent!

On May 15, we’re celebrating the cover reveal for the second book in The Adventures of Marisol Holmes series, The Sign of The Serpent. If you’re a blogger and want to participate in the reveal, please sign up here. To celebrate the cover reveal, you can now win this amazing Nancy Drew detective bracelet! There […]

Majanka 7 years ago

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Jaguar Keychain Raffle to Celebrate Release Free Sampler A Study in Shifters

Oh my God! I have some amazing news. The free sampler for A Study in Shifters, the first book in The Adventures of Marisol Holmes Series, releases today, and we’re celebrating the upcoming release of the sampler with an epic raffle for a jaguar key chain! Doesn’t it look awesome? If you want to preorder […]

Majanka 7 years ago

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It’s Cover Reveal Time!

I’m so excited that today I finally get to share with you the long-awaited cover for A Study in Shifters, the first book in the Adventures of Marisol Holmes series. This was one of my favorite books to write to date. This book challenged me in ways I didn’t think possible. And now, without further […]

Majanka 7 years ago

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes: Round-Up

Are you interested in reading my posts about The Adventures of Marisol Holmes? Well, here’s a round-up, so you can easily find the post you’re looking for. General Pinterest Boards Writing Tough Scenes A Study in Scarlet vs. A Study in Shifters All About The Shifters Species All About Jaguars All About Leopards All About […]

Majanka 7 years ago

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes: Jefferson Disk

Writing The Adventures of Marisol Holmes, I had to do a lot of research, not just into the different species of shifters that would appear in the book, but also on other rather mysterious topics. One of those topics was ciphers. The Jefferson disk, or wheel cipher as the inventor, Thomas Jefferson named it in […]

Majanka 7 years ago

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The Adventures of Marisol Holmes: Writing Tough Scenes

Today’s post is a little different. Rather than sharing trivia with you about the shifters appearing in The Adventures of Marisol Holmes, I wanted to touch upon a more difficult subject. Writing tough scenes. Sometimes, scenes are tough because you struggle while writing them. Action scenes are often like that. You need to visualize what […]

Majanka 7 years ago

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes: Invisible Ink

Writing The Adventures of Marisol Holmes, I had to do a lot of research, not just into the different species of shifters that would appear in the book, but also on other rather mysterious topics. One of those topics was invisible ink. One of the earliest writers who ever mentioned invisible ink is Aeneas Tacticus, […]

Majanka 7 years ago

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes: All About Spiders

In this week’s post, I’m going to talk to you about one type of shifter species in The Adventures of Marisol Holmes series that we haven’t discussed yet. Spiders. In the books, the mortician / coroner is a spider named Mormont. Spiders are arthropods, meaning they have eight legs. They also have fangs that inject […]

Majanka 7 years ago

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes: All About Foxes

As you know, The Adventures of Marisol Holmes features a school of shifters, and one of the shifters who appears in the story is a fox shifter. Foxes are small-to-medium-sized, and “fox” is actually a group name given to twelve distinct species of “vulpes”. On top of that, there are also 25 current or extinct […]

Majanka 7 years ago

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes

A Study in Scarlet vs. A Study in Shifters

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes: A Study in Shifters is completely different from Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Study in Scarlet”, but the title is based on it. “A Study in Scarlet” was published in 1887 and marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Since the Marisol Holmes series features a heroine who […]

Majanka 7 years ago

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Category: The Adventures of Marisol Holmes

Win a charm bracelet to celebrate the cover reveal of The Sign Of The Serpent!

Jaguar Keychain Raffle to Celebrate Release Free Sampler A Study in Shifters

It’s Cover Reveal Time!

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes: Round-Up

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes: Jefferson Disk

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes: Writing Tough Scenes

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes: Invisible Ink

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes: All About Spiders

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes: All About Foxes

A Study in Scarlet vs. A Study in Shifters

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