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Thanks to Chicks on the Case for posting my essay: Basing Characters on Friends and Adversaries:
Guest Chick: GP Gottlieb
When I first started writing Battered, the first Whipped and Sipped Mystery, Ruthie Rosin, the character of the protagonist’s best friend and pastry chef, appeared before me almost immediately. She…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Thanks to Chicks on the Case for posting my essay: Basing Characters on Friends and Adversaries:
For 50 years, Leah has written an annual New Year's letter to her fellow teachers' college colleagues in Israel. She falls in love, is unfairly maligned, makes bad decisions, is proud or aggravated about her sons, and is betrayed more than once. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/hap...
Happy New Years
After finishing her teaching degree in Israel, Leah emigrates to the U.S. for a teaching position that she thinks of as temporary. She ends up staying for 5 decades.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
For 50 years, Leah has written an annual New Year's letter to her fellow teachers' college colleagues in Israel. She falls in love, is unfairly maligned, makes bad decisions, is proud or aggravated about her sons, and is betrayed more than once. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/hap...
Thanks To Valerie Biel for posting my essay: Always Wear a Scarf (about a long-ago train incident involving a hemp plant).
Reading, Writing, & Roaming with Author Valerie Biel
Award-winning indie author, book marketing professional, & writing educator Valerie Biel brings you the latest publishing news, writing craft advice, book marketing & promotion tips. . .and occasional...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Thanks To Valerie Biel for posting my essay: Always Wear a Scarf (about a long-ago train incident involving a hemp plant).
Simone is 9 years old when she escapes from Belgium, her father shot by Nazis. Told from different perspectives, Simone in Pieces is a stunning historical novel that spans her life as a refugee, a student, a divorcee, an academic, and someone capable of love. newbooksnetwork.com/simone-in-pi...
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Simone is 9 years old when she escapes from Belgium, her father shot by Nazis. Told from different perspectives, Simone in Pieces is a stunning historical novel that spans her life as a refugee, a student, a divorcee, an academic, and someone capable of love. newbooksnetwork.com/simone-in-pi...
Sister Bernadette, a retired nun, inspires her neighbors at the Abbey Senior Residences to protest a developer who will destroy their neighborhood. When unexplained deaths start happening, Bernie uses all the tricks she learned as a schoolteacher to help the police in this sweet, cozy mystery!
October 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Sister Bernadette, a retired nun, inspires her neighbors at the Abbey Senior Residences to protest a developer who will destroy their neighborhood. When unexplained deaths start happening, Bernie uses all the tricks she learned as a schoolteacher to help the police in this sweet, cozy mystery!
Want to read a free NETGALLEY of BATTERED: A WHIPPED & SIPPED MYSTERY? Available through Nov 15. www.netgalley.com/widget/96202...
October 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Want to read a free NETGALLEY of BATTERED: A WHIPPED & SIPPED MYSTERY? Available through Nov 15. www.netgalley.com/widget/96202...
Here's what I have to say about cliches:
G.P. Gottlieb on Clichés
I met G.P. Gottlieb a year ago at the aborted Left Coast Crime conference. For a conference that barely lasted a day, I got so much out of it, including making friends with Ms. Gottlieb. She is easily...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Here's what I have to say about cliches:
Claudia Rose confronts two mysteries at her H.S. reunion: the unsolved case of a missing classmate and the death of a teacher. Claudia's skills as a forensic handwriting analyst and Sheila Lowe’s dark imagination had me turning pages long past bedtime. #partnersincrimeblogtours
October 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Claudia Rose confronts two mysteries at her H.S. reunion: the unsolved case of a missing classmate and the death of a teacher. Claudia's skills as a forensic handwriting analyst and Sheila Lowe’s dark imagination had me turning pages long past bedtime. #partnersincrimeblogtours
Lord and Lady Terrence Reid are among the guests at a Cotswold “Chef’s week." One person is there to stir up old grudges and restart his career, and everyone has a reason to want him dead, but Reid is stumped when both his parents and sister confess to the murder. newbooksnetwork.com/mary-birk-vi...
October 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Lord and Lady Terrence Reid are among the guests at a Cotswold “Chef’s week." One person is there to stir up old grudges and restart his career, and everyone has a reason to want him dead, but Reid is stumped when both his parents and sister confess to the murder. newbooksnetwork.com/mary-birk-vi...
Thanks to suspense novelist Peg Brantley for highlighting me (and including my essay about Escaping into Fiction with Peg) in her October newsletter! I've learned that much of writing is about helping other writers. pegbrantley.substack.com/p/escape-int...
Escape Into Fiction
The Curious Mind
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October 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Thanks to suspense novelist Peg Brantley for highlighting me (and including my essay about Escaping into Fiction with Peg) in her October newsletter! I've learned that much of writing is about helping other writers. pegbrantley.substack.com/p/escape-int...
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Thanks to Melissa Westemeier for posting my story on her website today!
Another Productive Day in the Life of a Writer
Readers, it's a REAL TREAT to host guest G.P. Gottlieb today! You KNOW anyone writing a book using "Whipped" in their title must be good: On Tuesday, I sit at my desk, turn on my computer, and check m...
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October 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Thanks to Melissa Westemeier for posting my story on her website today!
It’s 1605, and Isabella (Isabella's Way, She Writes Press 2025) learns that the Inquisition has begun attacking small communities that were forced to convert from Judaism. She has to leave Portugal as soon as possible, perhaps forever. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/isa...
Isabella's Way
In early-seventeenth-century Portugal, Spain, France, and Germany, dangers are plentiful—especially for those of Jewish heritage. Non-Catholics have been expelled from Spain, and the Inquisition has c...
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September 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It’s 1605, and Isabella (Isabella's Way, She Writes Press 2025) learns that the Inquisition has begun attacking small communities that were forced to convert from Judaism. She has to leave Portugal as soon as possible, perhaps forever. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/isa...
Thanks to Karen's Killer Book Bench for posting my essay about writing,"HE SAID, SHE SAID."
url:https://www.karendocter.com/karens-killer-book-bench-amateur-sleuth-mystery-battered-whipped-sipped-mysteries-book-1-by-g-p-gottlieb/
url:https://www.karendocter.com/karens-killer-book-bench-amateur-sleuth-mystery-battered-whipped-sipped-mysteries-book-1-by-g-p-gottlieb/
September 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Thanks to Karen's Killer Book Bench for posting my essay about writing,"HE SAID, SHE SAID."
url:https://www.karendocter.com/karens-killer-book-bench-amateur-sleuth-mystery-battered-whipped-sipped-mysteries-book-1-by-g-p-gottlieb/
url:https://www.karendocter.com/karens-killer-book-bench-amateur-sleuth-mystery-battered-whipped-sipped-mysteries-book-1-by-g-p-gottlieb/
An essay about writing and unsolicited advice.
How Not to Be Insufferable in Life or Books - Books Uplift
Guest Post by Mystery Author GP Gottlieb Do you know someone who, after you explain that you’re coughing because of asthma, says, “Have you been to the doctor about that?”...
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September 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
An essay about writing and unsolicited advice.
Zoey Kozinski is shocked when the cop who lets her ride along one afternoon gets shot. We don’t know if the murderer will be stopped before he silences Zoey, the only witness. I loved Crime Writer's characters, the forward motion, and being in the hands of master storyteller, Vinnie Hansen!
September 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Zoey Kozinski is shocked when the cop who lets her ride along one afternoon gets shot. We don’t know if the murderer will be stopped before he silences Zoey, the only witness. I loved Crime Writer's characters, the forward motion, and being in the hands of master storyteller, Vinnie Hansen!
Thanks to Kathleen Kaska for posting "Birding and Murder at Montrose Point in Chicago" on her widely admired blog - kathleenkaska.com/blog/
September 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Thanks to Kathleen Kaska for posting "Birding and Murder at Montrose Point in Chicago" on her widely admired blog - kathleenkaska.com/blog/
A cinematographer gets unfairly blackballed from the industry and accepts a position in the film department at UW. To get tenure, she's making a film about poachers in Zimbabwe. Someone will kill to stop her in this gorgeous novel about fighting for women's and animal rights.
September 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A cinematographer gets unfairly blackballed from the industry and accepts a position in the film department at UW. To get tenure, she's making a film about poachers in Zimbabwe. Someone will kill to stop her in this gorgeous novel about fighting for women's and animal rights.
Mona is 10 years old when she experiences a sudden temporary blindness in this gorgeous novel (Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser) about overcoming loss, art, history, and family. newbooksnetwork.com/los-ojos-de-...
September 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Mona is 10 years old when she experiences a sudden temporary blindness in this gorgeous novel (Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser) about overcoming loss, art, history, and family. newbooksnetwork.com/los-ojos-de-...
Still hoping to learn the rerelease date!
September 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Still hoping to learn the rerelease date!
In sharp, insightful stories set in Canada, The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories portrays muddled, saucy women who struggle with impending adulthood, difficult men, and dysfunctional families. newbooksnetwork.com/the-beauty-a...
September 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
In sharp, insightful stories set in Canada, The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories portrays muddled, saucy women who struggle with impending adulthood, difficult men, and dysfunctional families. newbooksnetwork.com/the-beauty-a...
GO ON PRETENDING is about Rose, who produces 1930s soap operas, her daughter Emma, born in the USSR but now in America, and her daughter Libby, who joins the revolution in Syria - 3 generations of strong women who insist on living as they choose. #novel #podcast newbooksnetwork.com/alina-adams-....
August 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
GO ON PRETENDING is about Rose, who produces 1930s soap operas, her daughter Emma, born in the USSR but now in America, and her daughter Libby, who joins the revolution in Syria - 3 generations of strong women who insist on living as they choose. #novel #podcast newbooksnetwork.com/alina-adams-....
A few days in Santa Fe....
Georgia O’Keeffe, Restaurants, Opera in Santa Fe
Summer Days with Friends
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August 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A few days in Santa Fe....
The Dime Museum is an intriguing novel-in-stories that revolves around Charlie, who lacks purpose and works in a Venice bookshop in exchange for books that he doesn't read. We meet his family, his ex-girlfriend, and all those whose lives and decisions formed him.
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August 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The Dime Museum is an intriguing novel-in-stories that revolves around Charlie, who lacks purpose and works in a Venice bookshop in exchange for books that he doesn't read. We meet his family, his ex-girlfriend, and all those whose lives and decisions formed him.
newbooksnetwork.com/joyce-hinnef...
newbooksnetwork.com/joyce-hinnef...