RELEASE DAY FOR LIARS & LUNATICS IN GOOSE PIMPLE JUNCTION

It's finally here! Release day for the fifth book in the Goose Pimple Junction mystery series. It's been three years since the last GPJ book was released, but the wait is over. And now . . . a little self-promotion . . .

ABOUT THE BOOK

It's election season, and there's a new candidate in town. Virgil Pepper is determined to take the job from Goose Pimple Junction's long-time mayor. Virgil is a charming and charismatic candidate but someone who will say anything (and mean none of it) to get what he wants. Three things top his list: to become mayor, to acquire Jackson Wright's land, and to make Caledonia Culpepper one of his many conquests.

Wynona Baxter is back, and she's a new woman. Now Daisy has a new identity, new life, and new business-ironically named Killer Cupcakes. But the town soon finds out that isn't the only kind of killer in town. Book five of the Goose Pimple Junction mystery series combines political hijinks, delicious cupcakes, Goose Juice moonshine, the ups and downs of finding true love, and, of course, murder.

It is said that "It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what." Lying in politics, lying for personal and professional gain, lying about an identity . . . What are the folks of Goose Pimple Junction willing to lie for . . . and what are they willing to die for?


Book Details:


Title: Liars & Lunatics in Goose Pimple Junction


Author’s name: Amy Metz


Genre: cozy mystery


Series: Goose Pimple Junction Mysteries, book 5


Publisher: Southern Ink Press, (September 19, 2019)


Print length: 244 pages

LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT WITH AMY METZ

Things you love about writing: I love being able to say and do things I’d never do in real life. I also love killing off my real-life bad guys, even if it’s only fictionally.
Things you hate about writing: marketing, the fifth round of editing.

Easiest thing about being a writer: setting my own schedule and deadlines.

Hardest thing about being a writer: the middle of the book. I don’t have a problem coming up with a beginning and an ending. It’s the middle that gives me fits.


Words that describe you: mom, introvert, writer, photographer, baker.
Words that describe you but you wish they didn’t: introvert, empty-nester, unlucky in love.

Favorite foods: pizza, steak, salad, fried green tomatoes, pie, lemon cake, cheesecake, donuts.
Things that make you want to throw up: canned asparagus, liver.

Favorite beverage: sweet tea with lemon.

Something that gives you a pickle face: beer.

Favorite smell: honeysuckle.

Something that makes you hold your nose: salt-rising bread in the oven or toaster.

Something you’re really good at: baking.

Something you’re really bad at: math.

Something you like to do: bake.

Something you wish you’d never done: date that one guy.

Things you always put in your books: the name “Lou” in some form, as a nod to my hometown; murder; romance; humor.

Things you never put in your books: graphic violence or sex.

Things to say to an author: “I loved your book and left a review on Amazon.”

Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: “I read your book . . .” (and then crickets).

Favorite places you’ve been: Stockbridge, Massachusetts (actually most anywhere in Massachusetts); Kennebunkport, Maine (actually most anywhere in Maine); Asheville, North Carolina; Point Clear, Alabama.

Places you never want to go to again: Alabama in the summertime.

Things that make you happy: my family, the moon, big trees, flowers, fall, donuts.

Things that drive you crazy: rude or mean people; people who cut you off in traffic; people who lie; when cable or internet goes out.

Best thing you’ve ever done: my two sons.

Biggest mistake: dating that one guy.

Favorite things to do: spend time with my family; attend my son’s concerts; bake; take photographs; look at the moon; travel.

Something you’d run through a fire wearing gasoline pants to get out of doing: public speaking.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Amy Metz is the author of the Goose Pimple Junction mystery series. She is a former first grade teacher and the mother of two grown sons. When not writing, enjoying her family, or surfing Pinterest and Facebook, Amy can usually be found with a mixing spoon, camera, or book in one hand and a glass of sweet tea in the other. Amy loves unique Southern phrases, cupcakes, and a good mystery. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.


Connect with Amy:
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IT'S LIVE! LIARS & LUNATICS IN GOOSE PIMPLE JUNCTION

ABOUT THE BOOK

It's election season, and there's a new candidate in town. Virgil Pepper is determined to take the job from Goose Pimple Junction's long-time mayor. Virgil is a charming and charismatic candidate but someone who will say anything (and mean none of it) to get what he wants. Three things top his list: to become mayor, to acquire Jackson Wright's land, and to make Caledonia Culpepper one of his many conquests.

Wynona Baxter is back, and she's a new woman. Now Daisy has a new identity, new life, and new business-ironically named Killer Cupcakes. But the town soon finds out that isn't the only kind of killer in town. Book five of the Goose Pimple Junction mystery series combines political hijinks, delicious cupcakes, Goose Juice moonshine, the ups and downs of finding true love, and, of course, murder.

It is said that "It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what." Lying in politics, lying for personal and professional gain, lying about an identity . . . What are the folks of Goose Pimple Junction willing to lie for . . . and what are they willing to die for?

Book Details

Title: Liars & Lunatics in Goose Pimple Junction

Author: Amy Metz

Genre: Cozy mystery

Series: Goose Pimple Junction Mysteries, book 5

Publisher: Southern Ink Press, September 1, 2019 (paperback)
September 19, 2019 (Kindle)

Print length: 244 pages

If you frequent this blog, you know most features here help other authors promote their work. Today, in honor of the launch of the fifth book in my Goose Pimple Junction series, I'm posting an article about how I used real life in my newest book. A look at behind the scenes of Liars & Lunatics.

KARMA WRITING

“Everybody lies. The only variable is about what.” – Hugh Laurie

That quote is so spot on, I begin my fifth book, Liars & Lunatics in Goose Pimple Junction, with it. Hugh’s right. Everybody lies. It doesn’t matter what you lie about or who you lie to: big or small, lies are lies. There are varying degrees of lying, from well-meaning liars to pathological liars, and I thought it would make for an interesting story. Much as I’ve experienced in real life, the characters in Liars & Lunatics cover the spectrum.

Honest people tell white lies, usually to spare someone’s feelings, maybe to get out of an obligation, or when they don’t know the answer to something and don’t want to lose face. The faces of “honest liars” usually give them away. They can’t look you in the eye or their face just flat out says “I’m lying and I feel guilty.” Lying by omission might be considered to be an honest lie, but it’s still a lie. The thought “I didn’t lie, I just didn’t correct you with the truth” is a flawed, slippery slope.

“A liar’s worst enemy is someone with a good memory.” – Dodinsky

Some people lie out of blatant self-interest. If they tell the truth, they’ll look bad or they won’t get what they want. Politicians lie to get elected. Unscrupulous business people lie for financial gain. Kids lie to get out of being in trouble. Spouses lie in financial matters or extramarital affairs. Some lie out of a need for power. We even have a president who is a liar. Whether you like or dislike our president, everyone has to agree he’s a blatant liar. He lies even when the facts are there for everyone to see. That’s how the Washington Post keeps track of how many lies he’s told. In August, they said he had made 12,019 false or misleading claims over 928 days. Liars are young and old, rich and poor, skinny and fat. But lying is a sticky game. When do you stop lying?

“The most dangerous strangers are the ones we thought we knew well.” —unknown

A couple of years ago I became acquainted with a toxic narcissist. I say acquainted because narcissists are such excellent liars no one ever truly knows the real person. I believed everything he said until red flags popped up one after another. And then he lied about his lies, something I call “liar layers.” I know now that his lies made my reality a lie. He wasn’t who I thought he was, and our relationship wasn’t what I thought it was. I’d heard of narcissism, but at the time I didn’t know the traits of a narcissist or the depths of lying that they will go to. Like the saying goes, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” Narcissists are excellent liars. But sooner or later, their lies become unearthed. 

“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.” — Dorothy Allison

I took that awful experience with a toxic narcissist and developed a story around it. In Liars &

Lunatics, Caledonia experiences much of what I went through in that short but doomed relationship. My character, Virgil, is a liar and a narcissist in both his personal and his professional life. I also incorporated my own brief experience with a divorce lawyer into book 4, Rogues & Rascals in Goose Pimple Junction. It was cathartic to kill her off, just as I killed off my real life unscrupulous publisher at the beginning of the book.

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” —Abraham Lincoln

Just as in real life, Liars & Lunatics is full of liars. Not all in the book are narcissists, some are lunatics. Not all in the book are bad people, but Virgil is, and his words and actions lead to his ultimate demise. They say to never wrong a writer—they get their revenge on paper. If only karma took care of all liars. I’m not saying all of them have to die like Virgil, DeeDee, and my former publisher, but it would be nice if, from time to time, their pants would actually catch on fire.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Amy Metz is the author of the Goose Pimple Junction mystery series. She is a former first grade teacher and the mother of two grown sons. When not writing, enjoying her family, or surfing Pinterest and Facebook, Amy can usually be found with a mixing spoon, camera, or book in one hand and a glass of sweet tea in the other. Amy loves unique Southern phrases, cupcakes, and a good mystery. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

Connect with Amy:
Website  |  Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Goodreads  |  Amazon

Buy the book:
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LIARS & LUNATICS IN GOOSE PIMPLE JUNCTION

Book 5 in the Goose Pimple Junction mystery series

ABOUT THE BOOK

It’s election season, and newcomer Virgil Pepper is a charming and charismatic candidate, but also someone who will say anything (and mean none of it) to get what he wants. Three things top his list: to become mayor, to acquire Jackson Wright’s land, and to make Caledonia Culpepper one of his many conquests.

Wynona Baxter is back, and she’s a new woman. Now as Daisy, she has a new identity, new life, and new business–ironically named Killer Cupcakes. But the town soon finds out that isn’t the only kind of killer in town.

Book five of the Goose Pimple Junction mystery series combines political hijinks, delicious cupcakes, Goose Juice moonshine, the ups and downs of finding true love, and, of course, murder.
 

It is said that “It’s a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.” Lying in politics, lying for personal and professional gain, lying about an identity . . . What are the folks of Goose Pimple Junction willing to lie for . . . and what are they willing to die for?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

 

Amy Metz is the author of the Goose Pimple Junction mystery series. She is a former first grade teacher and the mother of two grown sons. When not writing, enjoying her family, or surfing Pinterest and Facebook, Amy can usually be found with a mixing spoon, camera, or book in one hand and a glass of sweet tea in the other. Amy lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Check out the series:
Murder & Mayhem in Goose Pimple Junciton

Heroes & Hooligans in Goose Pimple Junction

Short & Tall Tales in Goose Pimple Junction

Rogues & Rascals in Goose Pimple Junction