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  • Book Bubble,  Snippets

    The First Sign of Sparks!

    A Tressa’s Treasures Book Bubble In this scene we see the first sparks between Tressa and Alexander. There are so many things happening in these first two chapters. Tressa is hiding who—or what—she truly is from everyone around her. Yet when she steps in to help her friend and coworker from an abusive husband, the truth threatens to come out! And what does Alexander mean when he says ‘I didn’t see you coming’? Could there be more to that? You bet there is! Right now Tressa’s Treasures is available on Amazon for only 99c Go to the Book Bubble and read the excerpt HERE

  • News/Updates

    Finalists Announced in IAN Book of the Year Awards for 2020

    The prestigious IAN Book of the Year Award named Belinda M Gordon’s newest release, The Good Pharmacist’s Deadly Secrets, a finalist in the category of ‘Mystery’. The Independent Author Network (IAN) is a community of authors who are self-published or published by a small indie press. They have been presenting the Book of the Year award since 2015 to recognize outstanding works of both fiction and non-fiction.   The over 600 entries were judged by experienced reviewers, authors, publishers, and editors. Works of fiction are judge on the following criteria: vibrant covers, attention-grabbing openings, memorable characters, crisp dialogue, captivating and original plots, and climactic, memorable endings. About the Book The Good…

  • New Release,  Reviews

    The Good Pharmacist’s Deadly Secret’s Reviewed on Reedsy Discovery

    The Good Pharmacist’s Deadly Secret’s has been selling on Amazon for a couple of weeks now, but today it gets an official launch hosted by Reedsy Discovery. One of the hardest things to do after writing a book is getting your work in the hands of readers. Building up your reviews on Amazon, Goodreads and the like is one method and the reason I frequently ask readers to leave one when they finish a book. Reedsy Discovery is another method of finding readers. First, they do a professional review of the book. My thanks goes out to my reviewer, Charlotte Graham. I’m pleased to say she loved the book and had wonderful things to say, including:…

  • Readers' Questions

    Where Did Sloan Murray’s Character Come From?

    Belinda here to tell you about a new series of posts I’m starting where I answer readers’ questions about my books or the so called ‘writing life’. We’re starting the series with a good one: Where did the character of Sloan Murray come from? The quick answer is Celtic mythology.  But let me expand on that. The principal character in The Pharmacist’s Deadly Secret, Sloan, first appears in Xander’s Folly, the second book in The King’s Jewel series. That series revolves around the Celtic mythology of the four treasures of the Tuatha de Danann and the second book features Lugh’s Spear. In the world I created for my series, Sloan…