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Deborah Grabien
No process at all, purely organic. A writer writes. Just - tell me the story.

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Book Event with Deborah Grabien in Greenwich Village

Jun.02.2011

Book Event with Deborah Grabien in Greenwich Village

As the bookstore puts it: "We are happy to welocme Deborah Grabien as she reads from & signs her 4th JP Kinkaid mystery. Kinkaid is a British session guitarist and this adventure takes him into the depths of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the history of the blues. Terrific!"

Come out for what looks to be a very cool evening on a hot night in New York City!

DIRECTIONS: Partners & Crime is located on Greenwich Avenue between 6th and 7th Avenues at the foot of Charles Street. Closest subway stations are the 7th Avenue line (1,2,3 trains) 14th Street station -- or the West 4th Street station for everything else.

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PUBLISHED: Sep.15.2011

Book of Days: Book 5 of the JP Kinkaid Chronicles

The release of Blacklight's double CD, Book of Days, looks like business as usual. The relaxed tour showcases a revolutionary new set design, as well as Bombardiers keyboard ace Tony Mancuso along as a guest. No one can predict what happens next: the CD goes multi-platinum, generating the need for a very different kind of tour. At first, everything seems fine. It takes a while...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.21.2011

Graceland: Book 4 of the JP Kinkaid Chronicles

When JP Kinkaid is asked by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominating committee to suggest an inductee under the"Early Influences" category, he has no hesitation in naming his childhood idol, delta bluesman Farris"Bulldog" Moody. Bulldog, alive and living in the southern Ohio town of Ofagoula, meets with JP - and the two form a deep and immediate bond. With the...

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London Calling: Book # 3 of The JP Kinkaid Chronicles

PUBLISHED: Aug.15.2010

London Calling: The JP Kinkaid Chronicles

Newlywed superstar guitarist JP Kinkaid and his wife, Bree, head off to London for their honeymoon. The trip should be idyllic: take care of personal business in London, record a few songs, relax. Their honeymoon gets sidetracked when legendary director Sir Cedric Parmeley enters his 25-year-old rockumentary, "Playing in the Dark" into competition at the Cannes Film...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.23.2010

Dark's Tale

After being abandoned in Golden Gate Park by owners who no longer want her, Dark must quickly learn how to take care of herself. Befriended by a racoon, Rattail, and Casablanca, another feral cat, Dark quickly learns her place in the park's hierarchy, and discovers who she can trust--the Warms (nice people who feed the ferals every day)--and who's to be avoided--the Cores (homeless...

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PUBLISHED: Sep.15.2009

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (JP Kinkaid #2)

While My Guitar Gently Weeps opens with Blacklight guitarist JP Kinkaid at home in San Francisco, and engaged to his long-time lover, Bree Godwin. Blacklight's tour has been rough on JP; a heart attack in Boston and a significant ramp-up of his multiple sclerosis have left him more physically fragile than usual. With the tour over, JP is relaxing by sitting in as second guitarist...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.08.2008

Rock & Roll Never Forgets (A JP Kinkaid Mystery)

One legendary band on a sold-out American tour. One sleazy biographer digging up old secrets and opening old wounds. One ageing guitarist, with a crippling illness and a twisted past. One woman who will do anything to keep her hold over him, and another who will do anything to protect him. The last thing the members of Hall of Fame rock & roll band Blacklight need to hear is...

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Dark's Tale

San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is a thousand acres of trees, open ground, lakes, waterfalls, and biking trails. During the day, the park is full of people. It's a popular destination, for locals and tourists alike. But when the sun sets out over the Pacific, the park becomes a different place. A whole new world emerges, the night world that the thousands who pass through the Park...

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PUBLISHED: Dec.10.2007

Still Life With Devils

In San Francisco, it's mid-October, darkness comes early, and a killer who strangles pregnant women is just claiming victim number six. Homicide chief Cassy Chant is running the manhunt for the serial killer the cops call Captain Nemo. The team, including Cassy's right-hand man Detective Inspector Jim Delgado, have been hunting Nemo for nearly ten weeks. Nemo's getting more brazen...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.13.2007

New Slain Knight: The Haunted Ballad Series

It’s summer in England, and---with nothing urgent demanding their attention---Ringan and Penny are planning a quiet vacation alone together. Their plans change when Ringan’s niece, fourteen-year-old violin prodigy Becca, is dumped in their care while her parents deal with an emergency abroad. Ringan has no idea what to do with a teenage relative. Penny points out that Becca is more...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2006

Cruel Sister

When Penny Wintercraft-Hawkes gets a call from her older brother Stephen, she's delighted to learn that he and his wife Tamsin have returned from Hong Kong, and are finally planning to build their dream house, a reproduction Elizabethan manor, on their London riverside property. Since Penny's longtime companion, traditional musician Ringan Laine, is an expert on period architecture...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2005

Matty Groves

When Ringan Laine and his band, Broomfield Hill, are invited to the prestigious Callowen House festival, he accepts. There's one catch: Callowen is haunted, by a very famous ghost. And that ghost, Susanna Leight-Arnold, is the subject of one of England's most famous ballads. After two close encounters with ghosts, Ringan and Penny are relieved to know that no exorcism is required...

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PUBLISHED: Dec.10.2003

The Weaver and the Factory Maid

Haunted by the ghosts of characters memorialized in their songs, a pair of lovers must uncover the truth behind the ghosts' deaths. When Ringan Laine, British folk musician, becomes the owner of a restored eighteenth-century cottage, he discovers right away that the cottage and the ancient barn on Ringan's property are haunted. Ringan and his longtime lover Penny, researching the...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.04.1990

Plainsong

In a future not very far from now, poet Julia Reynard believes herself the only survivor of a global plague. Pregnant and isolated in the English countryside, she's soon to realise that there are others - but that most of them are children, too young to be affected by the disease. And she begins to understand that the radical change that has come to the world, beginning with the...

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And Then Put Out The Light

At thirty-eight, the last place sculptress Emily Moon-Bourne ever expected to find herself was at the winning end of a nasty divorce. But when her wealthy husband runs off with a girl half his age, Emily finds herself with an enormous settlement, and at emotional loose ends. Emily, daughter of a Scandinavian mother and a Cherokee father, is known for only carving things that fly. A...

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The Famous Flower of Serving Men

Penny inherits the Bellefield, a haunted theatre in one of London's oldest districts. Before she or anyone can be safe within its walls, she must find the truth behind the death of the tormented Frenchwoman who died screaming when another structure stood where the Bellefield stands today.

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Mar.28.2012 - 10:47 am

Do You Feel Blessed? Well, do you, punk...?

This past weekend, I had a grand old time at the San Domenico School in San Anselmo, Marin County, California. Patricia V. Davis had arranged a sizeable conference, the...

Mar.22.2012 - 10:09 am

For all you series writers (and readers) out there, a question...

http://www.midwestmultisportlife.com/2012/03/jp-kincaid-chronicles-book-review.html A very nice look at the entire series. He brings up an interesting point, though, and a dilemna...

Jan.30.2012 - 4:52 pm

Ah, the joys of the new MS drug.

So, anyway, my excellent neuro - Rima Samira Ash, affectionately referred to by me as Birdgirl - has taken me off Avonex shots after nine years and switched me to a pill, a drug...

Oct.07.2011 - 10:18 pm

Got a revolution, got to revolution: OccupySF

Just back from about seven hours in the heart of Occupy San Francisco. I've been asked to write my impressions and feelings about what the Occupy movement is, where it's going. I'...

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Mar.28.2012 - 11:35 am

In response to: Do You Feel Blessed? Well, do you, punk...?

Ah, but the panel itself was

Ah, but the panel itself was titled specifically about anger. Hence the puzzlement. It wasn't called "I got Screwed By...

Jun.02.2011 - 1:21 pm

In response to: the podcast from South by Southwest

So. good.

Deborah Grabien www.deborahgrabien.com author of the Haunted Ballad series, the Kinkaid Chronicles, five standalone...

Aug.19.2010 - 11:28 pm

In response to: Deborah Grabien's London Calling

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Deborah Grabien www.deborahgrabien.com author of the Haunted Ballad series, the Kinkaid Chronicles, five standalone...

May.13.2010 - 11:49 pm

In response to: Did You Know Mother’s Day was Founded as a Feminist Anti-War Protest Day?

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Deborah Grabien www.deborahgrabien.com author of the Haunted Ballad series, the Kinkaid Chronicles, six standalone...

Mar.25.2010 - 9:13 pm

In response to: Goodnight, Jim Marshall

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Deborah Grabien www.deborahgrabien.com author of the Haunted Ballad series, the Kinkaid Chronicles, five standalone...

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Article: The Thing About Movements

Article: The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus: the DVD, and memories.

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Dec.17.2011

Book of Days: Book 5 of the JP Kinkaid Chronicles

Published by Bookin' With Sunny

Ever wish you could be a part of a world-famous rock band and perform at venues in cities like Paris, New York, Berlin, London? Well, okay, but without the drugs and other...

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Audio: Deborah Grabien's Podcast Interview with Rick Kleiffel, Variety Theatre Preview Room

Video: Capitol City Young Writers First Annual Writers Conference

About Deborah

Deborah Grabien is a cook, guitar player, cat rescuer, traveller, and all-around rocker chick. She also writes a little: she's the author of the Haunted Ballad series (St. Martins Minotaur), six standalone novels, and the Kinkaid Chronicles, the first of...

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EMILY's List (early member), Amnesty International (member on two continents for thirty years), Animal Welfare causes (we rescue feral cats), NARAL and...

Deborah GrabienNo process at all, purely organic. A writer writes. Just - tell me the story.

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Deborah Grabien
No process at all, purely organic. A writer writes. Just - tell me the story.