Category: Writing

• Mysterious Manawatū is back this Friday

  Mysterious Manawatū is one of 30+ ‘Mystery in the Library’ author panel events being held in the lead up to the Ngaio Marsh Awards. Last year’s panel was great fun and I know this year will be too! I’ll be joining four other criminally good authors: Gareth and Louise Ward (The Bookshop Detectives), Riley Chance,…

  G. B. Ralph

  28 Apr 2025

  Writing

  Authors, Books, Event, Interview, Library, Mystery, Ngaio Marsh Awards, Palmerston North

• My 99c book sale campaign with BookBub Featured Deal boost

  Yesterday morning Murder on Milverton Square went out to BookBub’s cozy mystery mailing list of over 1.5 million readers! US: 8am PDT Sunday 13 April 2025 – 8am PDT Sunday 20 April 2025UK: 8am GMT Sunday 13 April 2025 – 8am GMT Sunday 20 April 2025 Milverton on sale this week I’ve discounted the Murder…

  G. B. Ralph

  17 Apr 2025

  Writing

  BookBub, Charts, Ebook, Kindle, Murder on Milverton Square, Promotion, sale, The Milverton Mysteries

• #1 Best Seller: Milverton tops the LGBTQ+ Mystery chart!

  2½ years after Addison stumbled over his first death in Milverton, he’s back on top! Thank you so much to all the wonderful readers for sharing my cosy, quirky, queer, Kiwi mystery. It means everything! You can check out the chart for yourself, but be quick if you want to see Murder on Milverton Square…

  G. B. Ralph

  16 Apr 2025

  Writing

  Amazon, Best Seller, Charts, Cozy mystery, LGBTQ, Murder on Milverton Square, Mystery, The Milverton Mysteries

• Caution! Murder on Milverton Square is 99c/99p this week only

  Are you feeling a little dangerous? The first book in the Milverton Mysteries is criminally cheap this week in the US and UK! Nab yourself a copy of the Kindle ebook to see why our anxious hero Addison Harper is tripping over dead bodies, choking on food in front of the handsome Sergeant Jake Murphy,…

  G. B. Ralph

  14 Apr 2025

  Writing

  Amazon, Cosy mystery, Cozy mystery, Ebook, Kindle, Murder on Milverton Square, sale, The Milverton Mysteries

• Over 100 turnout for Riverside Wrongdoings at Whanganui Library

  Riverside Wrongdoings was a brilliant event last night in Whanganui! I had a wonderful time with my fellow authors / accomplices Charity Norman, Cynric Temple-Camp, and Stephen Johnson. And what a turnout! So many readers that we had to switch to a bigger space at the library and then keep bringing more chairs out. It was…

  G. B. Ralph

  11 Apr 2025

  Writing

  Author event, Authors, Books, Events, Library, Mystery in the Library, Ngaio Marsh Awards, Whanganui

• Event: 2025 Mystery in the Library, Whanganui

  The time is almost upon us! Tomorrow evening I’ll be be joining a truly disreputable bunch of wrongdoers – Charity Norman, Cynric Temple-Camp, and Stephen Johnson – on an author panel in Whanganui. The event is part of the Mystery in the Library series being held across the motu in the build up to the Ngaio…

  G. B. Ralph

  9 Apr 2025

  Writing

  Authors, Books, Event, Interview, Library, Mystery, Ngaio Marsh Awards, Whanganui

• 2025 Mystery in the Library series

  With over thirty Mystery in the Library events, this year is the biggest yet! There have been four already and still so many more to go in the lead up to the Ngaio Marsh Awards (New Zealand’s crime, mystery, and thriller writing awards). Each event features a fantastic bunch of authors and promises a criminally…

  G. B. Ralph

  5 Apr 2025

  Writing

  Authors, Books, Crime, Events, Library, Mystery, Mystery in the Library, New Zealand, Ngaio Marsh Awards, Thriller

• Cosy crafts and cosy mysteries

  So cosy and colour-coordinated! And the tree pattern! And the skull stitch markers! A huge thank you to Evin Bail, a reader from Cork in Ireland, who shared this wonderful photo of their knitting while listening to my latest audiobook, Death in Douglas Glade. Death in Douglas Glade is the latest in a wonderful cosy mystery series set…

  G. B. Ralph

  4 Apr 2025

  Writing

  Audiobook, Books, Cosy mystery, Cozy mystery, Crafts, Death in Douglas Glade, Knitting, Photo, Reader, The Milverton Mysteries

• Read to Filth podcast episode 017: The Milverton Mysteries / G. B. Ralph

  Let’s talk books, hot cops in gay cosy mysteries, accidental research, finding ways to (fictitiously) kill people, making Marmite toast, and much more! I’m the latest guest on the Read to Filth podcast where I chat to the host, Kelrick, about all things Milverton! In 2023, Kelrick made a pledge to only read books with…

  G. B. Ralph

  1 Apr 2025

  Writing

  Author interview, Books, Interview, LGBTQ, Podcast, Read to Filth, The Milverton Mysteries, Writing

• 3rd Milverton Mystery hits №3 on best seller chart

  I spoke too soon last night! I woke up this morning to find the Death in Douglas Glade audiobook up at №3 on Amazon’s Audible Best Sellers in LGBTQ+ Mysteries chart! If you want to see it for yourself – and peruse the other titles while you’re at it! – check it out now because…

  G. B. Ralph

  27 Mar 2025

  Writing

  Audible, Audiobooks, Charts, Death in Douglas Glade, New Release, The Milverton Mysteries