The Mysterious Garden Muse

May will be another busy month at Barnes & Noble's Mystery Forum! Rather than feature a single book every month like traditional book clubs, at the Mystery Forum we have featured authors visiting every week, and often guest bloggers visiting, too. Here is the schedule for May; check back again - I may be adding more guest blogs! Week of May 2 – Julia Spencer Fleming  May 2 - guest blog by Hannah Reed (aka Deb Baker) May 3 - guest blog by Dorothy St. James (aka  Dorothy McFalls ) Pam Callow guest blogs on Thursday, May 5: Our guest blogger on Friday, May 6 is Avery Aames: Week of May 9 - Marcia Talley   May 10 – guest blog by Justin Evans Week of May 16 - Jacqueline Seewald Steve Berry will our guest blogger on Tuesday, May 17: Week of May 24 - Clare O’Donohue Week of May 30 –  I'll be at Lori Foster's Reader Author Get Together   No features scheduled Don't forget - Brenda Novak's Annual Auction for the Cure of Diabetes...

There will be lots going on in April at B&N's Mystery Forum,  starting with LAURA KASISCHKE 's visit the week of April 4th. On Monday, April 4, author ELLEN HORAN will be our guest blogger: On Tuesday, April 5,  DIANE MOTT DAVIDSON  will be our guest blogger: Wow! Another guest blogger joins us - JACQUELINE WINSPEAR  guest blogs on Wednesday, April 6: Author HALLIE EPHRON will be featured the week of April 11: Two of Hallie's partners in crime at J UNGLE RED will be writing  guest blogs for the Mystery forum that week, too.  On Monday, April 11, JULIA SPENCER FLEMING will be our guest blogger: On Thursday, April 14, author ROSEMARY HARRIS will be guest blogging: On Friday, April 15, we'll have a guest blog from KATHERINE HALL PAGE : The week of April 18, best-selling author LISA JACKSON   - who has two new releases - comes back for a featured visit. On Friday, April 22, we'll have a guest blog  from BEVERLY B...

Here is the schedule for March 2011 at Barnes & Noble's Mystery forum: Week of March 1 -  Kelli Stanley  Wednesday, March 16 – guest blog by  Les Standiford , author of Bringing Adam Home (true crime/Adam Walsh) Week of March 7 -  C.J. Lyons  Week of March 15 -  P.L. Gaus , Amish mysteries  Friday, March 18 – Guest blog by  Jonathan Kellerman Week of March 22 -  Beth Groundwater 

We're winding up B&N's Month of Romantic Suspense on a high note - we have two guest bloggers and a visit from SUZANNE BROCKMANN on Monday, February 28 (she will be with us *LIVE* at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time to respond to questions and comments you all post during the day). Our guest bloggers are: Thriller Author ED GAFFNEY (who also happens to be married to SUZANNE BROCKMANN) And author MISA RAMIREZ Come join the party! Ed Gaffney and Suzanne Brockmann

This coming week we will be featuring several romantic suspense authors from KENSINGTON PUBLISHING: Here's the schedule: Monday, Feb. 21: CATE NOBLE Tuesday, Feb. 22*: KATHERINE GARBERA Wednesday, Feb. 23: SHANNON MCKENNA Thursday, Feb. 24: JEANNE ADAMS Friday, Feb. 25: ANN CHRISTOPHER We have a special treat on Feb. 22 when TWO authors will join us: KATHERINE GARBERA (Kensington) and ALLISON BRENNAN!  And on Monday, February 28  SUZANNE BROCKMANN  will join us to bring out Month of Romantic Suspense to a close. JOIN US!

This week's special guest at Barnes & Noble's online mystery forum is three authors in one:  JAYNE ANN KRENTZ AMANDA QUICK AND JAYNE CASTLE Jayne will be visiting with us all week as part of our Month of Romantic Suspense. Next week we will be joined by several authors from Kensington Publishing, and on February 28 we will wind up the event with a visit from SUZANNE BROCKMANN. Throughout the month there will be guest blogs by authors on a variety of topics. Look for blogs by ALLISON BRENNAN, MARY KENNEDY, JEANNE ADAMS and LIBBY FISCHER HELLMANN.