Another full house! Palmy Drag Fest was more fabulous than ever 💃 Amazing work by everyone involved! 1. Sporty and Scary 2. The Spice Girls with our Deputy Mayor 3. The finale 🎉 P.S. No drag performers were harmed in the making of this production 💀

Fabulous day at the Palmy Drag Fest Rainbow Fair hosted by the wonderful Miss Terri ✨ So good catching up with readers and hearing their excitement for Fright on Stage Right just in time for tonight's drag extravaganza 💃🎉💅 See you there! #DragQueen #LGBTQ #PalmyProud

We're all set up and ready to go! Catch us at the Palmy Drag Fest Rainbow Fair from 10am until 2pm today 🏳️‍🌈✨ #LGBTQ #PalmyProud

My historical thriller CITY OF VENGEANCE reaches a wee milestone: 1200 reviews and ratings. Knowing readers are still discovering Cesare Aldo cheers me up on a dreich day!

Behold my book throne 👑 The result is less "impressive regal seat of power" and more "big red Thinking Chair of Blue's Clues"… Oh, well! The paperbacks haveth arrived and that's what counts [1/2] 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀📚🌎 #Books #NewBooks #Mystery

What's this? We're back at the Palmy Drag Fest Rainbow Fair! I’ll be there selling books (including my latest!), signing books, and chatting with readers, alongside 50+ stalls featuring LGBTQ+ creators, products, and services. 🌈📚🇳🇿💙📚🌎

Welcome to our October Challenge! Your task this month is to read a book featuring a witch. If you need help finding one, take a look at our theme page. cozymystery.com/themes/paran...

The drama! The controversy! That's drag, honey 💅 Fright on Stage Right has been a big hit with readers with lots of lovely, enthusiastic, positive feedback! However, it didn't go down quite so well with a couple of readers and that is totally OK too. [1/3]

The drama! The controversy! That's drag, honey 💅 Fright on Stage Right has been a big hit with readers with lots of lovely, enthusiastic, positive feedback! However, it didn't go down quite so well with a couple of readers and that is totally OK too. [1/3]

I've been invited to join an indie author panel at the Hawke's Bay Readers & Writers Festival! #IndieAuthors #BookFestival #WritingCommunity 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀

Fright on Stage Right paperback proofs arrived 🎃🎭 #Mystery #BookSky 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀📚🌎

Fright on Stage Right paperback proofs arrived 🎃🎭 #Mystery #BookSky 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀📚🌎

Bonus! Sneak a peek backstage? One particular scene was a lot of fun to write but didn’t quite fit into the book for pacing reasons. It features a bit of fun and flirtation, some extra Mabel, and a sneaky peek at a magician’s secrets! [1/2] 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀 #Mystery #Magic #BehindTheScenes

It's time to put the final touches on your submission because entries close 1 October 💀 And then us judges get to read them 🎉 @markstay.bsky.social @angelacnurseauthor.bsky.social 📚💙🔎💀📚👀 #Mystery #ShortStory #WritingCommunity

Bonus! Sneak a peek backstage? One particular scene was a lot of fun to write but didn’t quite fit into the book for pacing reasons. It features a bit of fun and flirtation, some extra Mabel, and a sneaky peek at a magician’s secrets! [1/2] 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀 #Mystery #Magic #BehindTheScenes

It's time to put the final touches on your submission because entries close 1 October 💀 And then us judges get to read them 🎉 @markstay.bsky.social @angelacnurseauthor.bsky.social 📚💙🔎💀📚👀 #Mystery #ShortStory #WritingCommunity

It's been a busy few days since the ebook launch so I'm taking a moment with a friend to enjoy celebratory coffees and scones ☕ I'm already hearing from readers who have started (or even finished!) Fright on Stage Right 🎃🎭 It's so good to finally having Addison's latest misadventure out there!

Yay early Goodreads ratings are looking promising 🎃 I always find releases so tricky, being equal parts excitement, dread, nervousness, relief, elation, etc. So, it's nice to get confirmation that readers are enjoying this thing I spent a year working on!

What a fright I got this morning waking up to find my latest cosying up with the latest from Jax Calder (a wonderful fellow Kiwi!) on the LGBTQ+ Mystery best sellers list 😱🕵️‍♂️🏳️‍🌈🇳🇿 #LGBTQ #Mystery #BestSellers 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀

With the release of The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman and Fright on Stage Right by G. B. Ralph, it's a bumper week for fans of cosy mysteries and the colour orange, that's for sure 🎃 #Books #MilvertonMysteries #ThursdayMurderClub 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀

With the release of The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman and Fright on Stage Right by G. B. Ralph, it's a bumper week for fans of cosy mysteries and the colour orange, that's for sure 🎃 #Books #MilvertonMysteries #ThursdayMurderClub 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀

Someone has already finished 😱 I'm pleased they enjoyed it ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A British reader living in NYC but back in London on holiday had taken herself out to a bar (to escape the family briefly) and ordered a plot-relevant cocktail to drink while reading my new book. She met two Kiwis at the bar, one of whom had read my books. What is going on.

Another brilliant author chat on Mark Stay's (@markstay.bsky.social) Creative Differences livestream with today's special guest Lucy Strange. An extra spooky edition with appropriately ominous jingle and an unexpected mention of my new release, Fright on Stage Right, just 1 minute in 🎃 Links below.

They're going live in 9 hours 🚨

Readers getting this notification 👀

What's it going to be, folks? 🍬 #Halloween #BookRelease #Mystery 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀

We've crossed midnight in Europe which means the frights have arrived in Milverton 👻 Not long now until we're fully out worldwide! #BookSky #BookRelease #Mystery 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀

We're the first to see the sun and also first to get the new ebooks on release day 🎃 Fright on Stage Right will be coming out worldwide as time zones tick over midnight into 23 September 🌛 🇦🇺🇳🇿 www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0DHRHLXP3 🌎 gbralph.com/fright-on-st... #BookSky #BookRelease #Mystery 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀

It is time 💀 Fright on Stage Right is out now in 🇳🇿 and 🇦🇺! In a few hours 🇬🇧 and 🇪🇺 will get their copies, then 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇦 soon after that! Buy / pre-order 🎃🎭 gbralph.com/fright-on-st... Video sent in by a very switched-on reader, thank you!

🎃 Spooky Halloween fun 💅 Ghoulish drag queens 👻 Frightening musical numbers 😱 Audience participation ⏰ Released tomorrow Fright on Stage Right: gbralph.com/fright-on-st... #Mystery #Spooky #Halloween 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀

This handsome boy is exhausted watching me rush about preparing for my book release 😮‍💨 With just two days to go, Ted demanded a Sunday morning lie in and I obliged 💁‍♂️

I'm channelling early 2000s Neopets and embracing a seasonal theme by spookifying my author website header because why not? 🦇🕷️👻

It’ll be a scream 💅

Someone at the next table was both intrigued and horrified by my Grandpa Shark cocktail 🦈 It contained two rums, shōchū, and passionfruit – delicious *and* whimsical!

This #cocktail has Edward Cullen’s sparkly self written all over it ✨ But I’ll always be Team Jacob 🐺 N.B. Fright on Stage Right does not feature any vampires or lupine shapeshifters from Forks, but it does have plenty of #mystery, tasty cocktails, and spooky #Halloween fun 🕵️‍♂️🍸🦇

Only 1 week until we're back in Milverton for Fright on Stage Right! So I thought I'd share the start of Chapter 1 💀 Pre-order: gbralph.com/fright-on-st... #Books #NewRelease #Mystery

Such a wonderful and generous book review! @cjrauthor.bsky.social said the nicest things this afternoon about the first of The Milverton Mysteries on RNZ National 😍 I picked out a few of my favourite comments but you can listen to the recording for yourself on RNZ 📻 #Radio #NewZealand #BookReview

Spellcasting On is out now! Cosy sapphic romance with yarn 🧶 and magic ✨. Available now on all the usual platforms: buy.bookfunnel.com/psfdv1soqy

They're going live in just over 30 minutes 🚨

Author and book critic @cjrauthor.bsky.social will be on RNZ National this afternoon with Jesse Mulligan discussing the first of The Milverton Mysteries, but she's already assured me she "absolutely loved it!" 😍 Tune in for the full book review just after the 2pm news 📻 #Radio #NZ #BookReview 🇳🇿📚

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

Milverton4_DraftF_v01_FINAL 🎃🎭 One last read through before ebook submission this week and release next week! If you want to read it too, you can pre-order Fright on Stage Right here: gbralph.com/fright-on-st... 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀 #CozyMystery #Halloween #Reading

When should you share a secret? 🤫 Addison and Mabel discuss in this timely exchange from Fright on Stage Right 🤔 #Mystery #BookSky #NewRelease 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀

Two weeks until it's show time 😱 How frightening! #Halloween #CozyMystery #BookSky 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀

Today's writing involved: 😐 uh vs uhh vs uhhh, ⏰ accidental tense shifts, and 😣 confounding compound words. 🚧 WIP: Fright on Stage Right 📈 Book status: Copy edits (💯 through @amphipodgirl.bsky.social's notes) #CozyMystery #Mystery #WritingCommunity 🌈📚💙🔎💀📚👀🌈✒️

Two weeks until it's show time 😱 How frightening!

Today's writing involved: 🤯 learning a 'fizzer' might be considered positive, 🥲 Nigel No-Mates, and 💬 tidying up rogue speech marks. 🚧 WIP: Fright on Stage Right 📈 Book status: Addressing copy edits (70% through @amphipodgirl.bsky.social's notes) #CozyMystery #Mystery #WritingCommunity 🌈📚💙🔎💀📚👀🌈✒️

Today's writing involved: 🌹 a self-lopping rose head, 🫡 trooper vs trouper, and 😼 punctuation changes for added cattiness. 🚧 WIP: Fright on Stage Right 📈 Book status: Addressing copy edits (36% through @amphipodgirl.bsky.social's notes) #CozyMystery #Mystery #WritingCommunity 🌈📚💙🔎💀📚👀🌈✒️

Milverton Park is 100 years old! This is a very real local park with a name that may sound familiar to my readers 🤔 Here's a Manawatū Standard article from today with a bit of the park's history: www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608... Photo: Milverton park c1939 (Source: Manawatū Heritage)