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The Adventures of Marisol Holmes Young Adult Novels

Cover Reveal: The Wolf of the Baskervilles

Today is the big day… The cover reveal for The Wolf of the Baskervilles, the third book in The Adventures of Marisol Holmes series! Without further ado… I hope you like it! I for one LOVE it. And here’s the blurb in case you haven’t read it yet: Who is Marisol Holmes? She’s a teenager. […]

Majanka 5 years ago

Book Tour The Sign Of The Serpent

The book tour for The Sign Of The Serpent launches today, and runs until February 15. Even better, you can win an awesome Alex and Ani bracelet during the tour and a free iBook copy of The Sign Of The Serpent, the second book in The Adventures of Marisol Holmes series! Visit the blogs participating […]

Majanka 6 years ago

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes Writing Young Adult Novels

The Sign Of The Serpent Launches on February 12

On February 12, The Sign of The Serpent, the second book in The Adventures of Marisol Holmes series, launches. I couldn’t be more excited! I can’t wait to share thisb ook with you. I enjoyed writing it possibly even more than the first book in the series, and for people who enjoyed the first book, […]

Majanka 6 years ago

Game Review

Game Review: Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective – The Thames Murders & Other Cases

One of my Christmas gifts was a Sherlock Holmes-themed board game, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases. Yes, that’s a thing. Yes, it exists. No, I had no idea it did, or I would’ve bought it years ago. There’s no better way to get in the mood to write the next […]

Majanka 6 years ago

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes Writing Young Adult Novels

Launch Day for A Study in Shifters

Finally, the countdown is over, and the moment we’ve all (or well, I have) been waiting for, has arrived! It’s launch day for A Study in Shifters. A Study in Shifters “The game is afoot.” Seventeen-year-old Marisol Holmes wants to live up to the family legacy; after all, she is the great-great-great granddaughter of Sherlock […]

Majanka 7 years ago

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes Writing Young Adult Novels

Book Tour A Study in Shifters

The blog tour for A Study in Shifters starts today, and the line-up is looking amazing. Visit the tour page here and check out the schedule below. Thanks a million to everyone who chose to participate! June 25th –Indie Wish List >> Excerpt –Devouring Books >> Review –Rainy Days and Pajamas >> Excerpt –tfaulcbookreviews >> […]

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

The Adventures of Marisol Holmes Writing

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

Majanka Verstraete

Tag: Sherlock Holmes

Cover Reveal: The Wolf of the Baskervilles

Book Tour The Sign Of The Serpent

The Sign Of The Serpent Launches on February 12

Game Review: Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective – The Thames Murders & Other Cases

Launch Day for A Study in Shifters

Book Tour A Study in Shifters

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

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