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News Flash! Scoop hits #1 Local Bestseller List! Buy it now at
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Texas Book Festival, here we come!

Join Tahoe and I for a signing and a chat at Texas Book Festival Saturday, Oct. 28 at 9 a.m.! Visit www.TexasBookFestival.org, and come see us at Booth 116, from 9-11 a.m. Hope to see you there!

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For a CD with info, contact KitFrazier@yahoo.com

Sept. 16 B Dalton Books,
Highland Mall, Austin

In case you missed my first signing, we had a ball! Big thanks to JoAnn and Deanna of B Dalton, and a big Shout Out to all the ARWA Gunslinging Gals who made the book signing fantastic event! Julie Ortolon and emily McKaskle, thanks for the beautiful flowers, and Marian S., I love the purse! *sniff I love you guys!

Kit's Bio
Press Release: Oct. 1, 2006
Texas writer comes from a long line of trailblazing women
Novelist Kit Frazier comes from a long line of hardheaded, trailblazing women. Named for her great, great grandmother, Kit Hockaday, who saved her husband from Civil War bushwhackers—twice—Kit hopes to add to her family’s tradition of unconventional women.

Finding her own way wasn’t easy. After a brief attempt to follow her mother’s fabulous career in the military by joining the United States Air Force (these outfits only come in green?) she set out in search of other ways to fulfill both her patriotic duty and her quirky sense of adventure.

“My mother was the first female Chief Master Sergeant in United States Air Force reserves, and that was going to be a tough act to follow,” Kit says.

Journalism seemed the best course of action. “As a journalist, I’m able to draw attention to stories that might otherwise go unnoticed, and I’ve written the gamut, from investigative reporting on pollution to the F4 Pedernales tornado that destroyed homes and left lives in ruins,” Kit says. “Then again, I’ve also written about discount caskets and more breast enhancements and Botox than I care to recall.”

While writing for the newspaper was rewarding, the stories Kit grew up listening to kept rattling around, and she began writing fiction at a very early age. “I wanted to get back to fiction,” says Kit. “And it was my romance-writing friends who encouraged me to turn my pen toward passion.”

But the road to romance writing was rocky at best.

“My friends are very good at it, and I love to read their work, but the romance thing didn’t really work for me,” Kit says. “I wrote a romance novel that did very well, won a bunch of contests and even got me an agent, but it just didn’t seem right—I was divorced before I turned 25. I figure I’ve got no business writing the happily-ever-after thing.”

So Kit turned her attention to other works of fiction. “My mother was a police woman, my grandmother was a ‘medicine woman’ and my great, great grandmother could shoot the beak off a chicken. So I turned to what my family knows best— murder, mayhem and more malevolent men than you can shake a stick at.”

Kit says the idea for Scoop, her first mystery novel, came to her while she was chatting with an agent at William Morris Agency.
“The agent said she loved my writing style but she said she could do without the guy and the baby in the story,” Kit says. “She asked if I could get rid of the baby and the guy, and I said, ‘Well, no, but I could write another book.’ And I went home that night and wrote the first sixty pages of the novel. It was amazing. I knew I was on the right track because the protagonist, Cauley MacKinnon, a spunky, down-on-her-luck obituary writer, came to me whole and ready to tell me her story. It was just one of those gifts from above, I think.”

Since then, Kit’s adventures in mystery writing have led her down some unexpected and fascinating paths.

“Since I began the mystery series, I’ve been really lucky to get access to police officers, FBI agents and Search and Rescue personnel, who’ve been generous with their time and knowledge,” says Kit.
Since she began her research, several officers and one FBI agent encouraged her to continue her studies, and she has since become a member of the Citizen’s Police Academy and is certified in Search and Rescue.

“I’m not nearly as trailblazing as my mom or grandmother and the other women in my family, but I’m not sure I want to be,” Kit says. “I don’t think I’d want to fend off a band of angry bush whackers with a shotgun and a broomstick. But if I had to, I’d give it my best shot.”

Kit is a professional journalist and is the two-time, first-place winner of the Writers’ League of Texas and Merritt awards. She is a member of the Texas Press Association, and is certified in Search & Rescue. Kit lives on Lake Travis just outside Austin, Texas, with her dog, Tahoe, who plays a significant role in the mystery series, and is willing to work without a contract. Her first mystery novel, Scoop, published by Midnight Ink, hits the shelves in September 2006. For more information or to chat, visit www.KitFrazier.com.

About Scoop
Cauley MacKinnon is staring down the barrel of thirtieth birthday, certain the only things standing between her and certain doom are instinct, pure dumb luck and a kick-ass hairdresser.

Starting over after a truly bad marriage and armed with a freshly minted journalism degree, Cauley is disappointed to find that the only job she can get in her hometown of Austin is as an obituary writer—something that only happens to interns who’ve been very good, or reporters who’ve been very bad. Somehow, Cauley’s managed to do both. And of course, being the Obituary Babe wreaks havoc on her already disastrous social life.

While on the hunt for a story that will get her off the Death Page, Cauley’s life takes a turn for the worse when hapless childhood friend, Scott Barnes, threatens suicide and barricades himself in a dilapidated old shed where he phones Cauley for help. Cauley manages to talk her friend out of the shotgun and the shed. But Cauley is soon devastated when she discovers Barnes dead at his computer with an empty bottle of bourbon and a computer-generated suicide note. Soon, Cauley is up to her eyelashes in dead bodies and everyone wants to know what Barnes said in the shed—the last time anyone saw him alive.