This Is Much Better Than a Sucker, Don’t You Agree?

I want to introduce you to Joanna Campbell Slan. She is a mystery author that also scrapbooks. I will be doing a review of the book once I read it. So watch out for that in the near future. I seriously can't wait to start it.
She will be checking in to see if you have any questions for her. So please give her a warm welcome and here she is!!!!

This Is Much Better Than a Sucker, Don’t You Agree?

Today I stopped by one of my favorite local stores: Red Lead. It’s owned by two sisters who are proof that creativity runs in the genes. Right now, they’re gearing up for Halloween, and up front and center there was a really fun project, a Halloween tree. The sisters spray painted a tree limb black, put it in a clay pot painted orange, and hung paper objects of art from the branches. There were paper pieced pumpkins, black ravens and all sorts of fun “do-hickeys.” (That’s a highly technical term, isn’t it?) I signed up for the class called Glitterween so I can learn to make all those dangling “ornaments.” Check it out at http://www.redleadpaperworks.com/servlet/the-Workshops-cln-October-2008/Categories I also bought a couple of their newest stamps, ones they’ve designed themselves. I got one with a black kitten sitting inside a jack-o-lantern, and another of a bird inside the outside of a house with HOME printed across the bottom. Too cool! And they are clear which I love. So easy to store and use.

Here’s the thing…Red Lead is sort of close to my dentist’s office. So every time I get my teeth cleaned, I treat myself afterwards with a stop at Red Lead. It’s sort of my grown-up version of a lollipop. Last spring when I started with a toothache, graduated to having crowns put on, and then finished with two root canals, one right after another, my Red Lead visits kept me from breaking down and sobbing a lot. (And I have a great dentist and a terrific root canal guy. I just don’t like having people mess with my teeth. Sorry!)

The title of my new book is Paper, Scissors, Death: A Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-N-Craft Mystery. I bet “Kiki,” my alter ego, will pick up some cool ideas from my Glitterween class. Since I include scrapbooking tips in my books, and I’ve already written Book #2, I need to be thinking about fun ideas for Book #3, right?

See? That’s how I justify a trip to a favorite scrapbook store: “poor me” and research. How about you? What’s your justification? Or do you need one?

Joanna Campbell Slan is the author of Paper, Scissors, Death (ISBN 978-7387-1250-7) which features amateur sleuth and scrapbooking mom, Kiki Lowenstein. For more information go to www.joannaslan.com To read an excerpt www.youpublish.com/joannaslan



To order your copy—complete with a coupon for 50 Free Digital Prints—go to http://www.amazon.com/Paper-Scissors-Death-Lowenstein-Scrap-N-Craft/dp/0738712507/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220378229&sr=8-1pattimar



Joanna Campbell Slan
Paper, Scissors, Death
Fall 2008, Midnight Ink
www.joannacampbellslan.com
http://killerhobbies.blogspot.com