Indie Author Faves
Hello, and I hope everyone is having fun playing with your new presents 
This blog post is to share with all of you some of my favorite indie authors – a small gift to both you and them.
First, the awesome Lil and Boris mystery series, by Shannon Hill. Littlepage “Lil” Eller adopts stray cat Boris, and together they patrol a town known as Crazy, VA. Lil is a former government agent turned Sheriff of her small home town. She is the equivalent of if the Hatfields and the McCoys had somehow merged to produce one child related to both sides, in this case, the Littlepages and the Ellers. Boris, I’m happy to say, acts like a cat, and not like a prescient semi-human. Sadly, this series ended after five books.
Second, indie author Beth Pratt is still writing a fun mystery series about Veronique Berri, a former cat burgler turned art appraiser, living in Paris. When I read this books, I “feel” Paris. Veronique is a very likeable and unusual protagonist with an odd mix of friends. Bonus: she owns a great dog.
Third, Zander Marks has only written one totally amazing book called Death Ain’t but a Word. It’s about a psychic junkie living on the streets who is visited by a murdered friend who asks for justice. The book is as crazy as it sounds, but it was so darned good. I would love to read another book by this author, who seems to have given up on indie authorship, as this book was published in 2012.
The fourth and final author I’ll recommend here is Joseph Birchall. He is an Irishman from Dublin who decided to go on an adventure. He traveled to France for a few months and then moved to Israel on a whim. Kibbutz is the true story of those months of his life. His descriptions of life on a kibbutz were sometimes gruesome and sometimes incredible. Joseph Birchall has since switched from memoir to writing novels. I haven’t read anything else by this author, but I highly recommend Kibbutz.
In another post, I hope to tell you the worst indie authors that I would recommend running far away from.
