Dangerous Threads

Here is the existing cover for Dangerous Threads.

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Preliminary covers for two new books.  Murder at Webster Point Inn  isn't done yet.

Now writing newspaper and journal columns for two publications. One is the Georgetown Advocate. I write the Professor Dave column and answer technical and household hint questions.

The other is the Central Pointe Business Journal. I write columns on manufacturing and quality and environmental issues.

If you get a chance pick them up.

New books and new things

It is September 2013. I had a new book issued this year called Dangerous Threads.

Dangerous Threads

                                                                        By

                                                            David Ciambrone

      Virginia Davies-Clark is called back into the service of the Smithsonian Central Security Service and the Department of Defense along with her husband Andy and her friend Donna to locate a quilt. This isn’t just any quilt. At the 1933 Century of Progress in Chicago, Sears Roebuck Company sponsored a quilt contest.  The Grand Prize was to be $1,000.00.  The quilt that won the prize was a pieced one called “The Unknown Star” by the maker, Margaret Rogers Caden of Kentucky.  The quilt, itself, was presented to the wife of the then President, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sometime during FDR’s presidency the quilt disappeared and has not been seen for almost seventy years. Virginia asks why the DOD is interested in an old quilt. The government agent tells her the quilt contains wire recorder data on the final “Uniform Field Theory” or Theory of Everything. Dr. Einstein supposedly discovered the theory in 1939. And, the theory’s equations were put on a wire recording then placed into the quilt and then hidden as WWII broke out. The recordings of the theory must be kept away from everyone for the resultant theory could destroy the world, or so some people think.

      Virginia’s job is to find the quilt, missing for over seventy years, and get the recordings to Washington for safekeeping.  As she, Andy and Donna start their quest, they find they are not the only ones searching for the quilt and they are attacked by various organizations bent on stopping her and finding the quilt for themselves. Their adversary lists grows and it seems her worst nemesis is their own government. Virginia makes some strange alliances across the country to take down the organizations trying to stop her. Using her wits, cunning, intellect, and guts, she, Andy and Donna locate the quilt and the recordings and uses them to undermine a bold strategy by the traitors in our government trying to kill her and her little group and to take the wire recordings and sell them to a foreign power. Her conniving, devious and messy strategy brings the villains to an explosive end.

I will be at the Chisholm Trail Quilt Guild quilt show at the Dell Diamond in Round Rock, Texas Sept. 27, 28th  with this book. Stop by and say hi.

Have two new books coming out shortly. Chimera and Murder at Webster Point Inn.  Working on three more.

JUst got back from Killer Nashville mystery conference--it was great. Lots of great talks and panels and people. Going to Love is Murder in February and to the Texas Book Festival in October at the capital in Austin, TX. 

Austin Cap10K race

On April 7. 2013 there will be another Austin, TX Cap 10K race. Kathy and I signed up for it already. I have the same goals as last time:

Show up
Finish
Don't finish last
Don't have to go to the hospital
Don't die

NOW I've got to start training. It takes me a while, so I'd better start early. Kathy and I have registered so we're committed. Now we need to get a few friends to do it with us too. Of course I'll be the last of the group in at the finish but I will make it (I hope). Who knows, maybe I won't be the last of our group. Should be fun, I hope. As long as it doesn't rain. Anyone want to join us? How about you on the Left Coast?

'm going to be at Gourmage in New Braunfels, TX on Nov. 30th 4 to 6 PM to do a book signing for the Trashy Gourmet. There will be things to do and Trashy Gourmet recipes given out free. If you are in central Texas then stop by and say Howdy.

New newspaper column and other stuff.

Okay, it's been too long between posts. I have some news:

1. I'm now a columnist for the Georgetown Advocate and my column is called Professor Dave. First column appears in the first november issue. This will be fun.

2. I'm giving two training sessions at Love is Murder mystery conference in Chicago next February1,2&3. This will be fun. The conference was a blast last year and was just the right size to have good speakers etc and small enough to meet new friends. Sold a lot of books too. (Also deductible).

3. Got a publicist to help market The Trashy Gourmet. I'm hoping for lots of good things to happen.

4. Quilters are asking about my next book that is due out soon titled Dangerous Threads. Marketing to the quilters and others will be a lot of fun.

5. Going to Killer Nashville next year and to Bouchercon. Both mystery writing conferences. (Also deductible).

6. Finished the Coroner mystery and now working on another Virginia Davies novel.

         Here is a teaser about the coroner book:

                                                               Chimera

                                                                     By

                                                           David Ciambrone

            Eleven thirty in the overcast evening, a man of medium build, with thinning brown hair and wearing wire rimmed glasses, dressed in U.S. Army work camo uniform, with a major’s rank insignia Velcroed to the front, entered the outer section of the Biosafety Level-4 (BSL-4) suites within USAMRIID. Following a carefully laid out plan, he stole the stainless steel thermoses of the particular samples he was after.

            Dr. Jack Turner, a Ph.D. chemist is the Coroner of San Sebastian County, California and a reserve Lt. Colonel in the army attached to USAMRIID. He watches his life change forever when an alarm goes off and emergency protocols lock down one of his autopsy suites. The “customer” in the lab had smallpox. Not just any smallpox, but weaponized smallpox from a chimera. It’s supposed to be extinct, but there are samples still around, at the CDC and the army. But, some of the Army’s is missing from Ft. Detrick, the home of USAMRIID. To add to Dr. Parker’s problems The army presents Dr. Turner with orders from the U.S. Army Adjutant General activating his reserve commission to active duty and authorizes him to act as a law enforcement special agent of the army, to the displeasure of the FBI and local Sheriff, who he must work with. Adding further complications, he has to work with Nancy Cartwright of the Department of Public Heath. Their objective-find the source of the Chimeras and smallpox, find the perpetrators and stop anyone from using it as a terrorist weapon and causing a pandemic, especially with all the military bases, defense contractors and tourist destinations in Southern California.  He has to stop an attack worse than an atom bomb.

            With the clock running down, Jack and Nancy, using their wits, cunning and, slightly bending the rules and the law, entangle the reader in a rapid-fire adventure racing headlong into a series of macabre organizations and locate the smallpox and stop the continuous murders by a group of terrorists. 

Now it's back to work on my new column. Have a safe and fun Halloween!