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Vinnie Hansen

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Two-time Claymore Award Finalist Vinnie Hansen is the author of the Carol Sabala mystery series (misterio press) as well as literary works and over 40 short stories, appearing in such diverse collections as Fault Lines, Fishy Business, Santa Cruz Noir, Catamaran Literary Reader, Destination: Mystery!, Fish or Cut Bait, Lake Region Review, Porter Gulch Review, Mystery Weekly, Transfer Literary Magazine, Mysterical-E, Crime & Suspense, and Web Mystery Magazine. She won the Golden Donut Award from the Writers' Police Academy, and a B.R.A.G. Medallion for her mystery, Black Beans & Venom. Award-winning crime writer Allen Eskens says of Black Beans & Venom: "It is the mark of true talent for a writer to be able to deliver her readers completely ...more

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Vinnie Hansen Great to hear from you, John!

I completed my series with Black Beans & Venom, so my WIP is CRAZE, a stand-alone literary crime novel: An interrupted b…m´Ç°ù±ð
Great to hear from you, John!

I completed my series with Black Beans & Venom, so my WIP is CRAZE, a stand-alone literary crime novel: An interrupted burglary. A tossed handgun. The craze that splinters from the crime.

I have a 61,000-word first draft that should grow during the rewrite.

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Why, you may ask, have I been gobbling up Karen McManus's ONE OF US IS LYING young adult series? When I was a high school English teacher, I used to read a lot of young adult material to cull my classroom library, but I've been retired now for 13 years. However, because I was a high school teacher for 27 years, teenaged characters frequently creep into my own books even though I write for an adult Read more of this blog post »
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