Dale Mayer Books

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Dale Mayer is a Canadian USA Today bestseller. Her bibliography includes nonfiction works that tackle everything from resume writing to mortgages and gardening. However, most people know her primarily for her fiction.

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She writes in a variety of genres, including romance, romantic suspense, paranormal, mystery, and urban fantasy, to mention but a few. Dale knew from an early age that she wanted to write fiction. The temptation to abandon technical writing in favor of fiction plagued her for years until she couldn’t deny it any longer.

The author’s imagination required an outlet, and technical writing couldn’t satisfy her craving. She weathered several rejections before finding her audience. Despite the dozens of novels she has published over the years, the rejections haven’t stopped. However, they don’t distress her as much.

From what Dale has seen, rejections are part and parcel of the publishing industry. The same goes for negative reviews. She doesn’t have an agent because she doesn’t think they matter at the moment.

The industry has changed drastically. Aspiring writers have too many publishing avenues at their disposal. They don’t need agents. Dale agrees that a good agent is a powerful asset, the kind many newcomers to the industry will appreciate. However, the bad ones are dangerous, and their incompetence can destroy your career.

Dale is more than happy to embrace the changing trends in publishing. For instance, you can find most of her novels in ebook format. She commends the format for introducing her books to a broader audience.

That being said, marketing is still a challenge, partly because she writes in so many genres. Therefore, creating a brand for herself is not easy. That doesn’t stop her from trying. Dale spends several hours a day marketing her work.

This is why she is opposed to creating pen names. She doesn’t have the time or patience to promote multiple pseudonyms. The author writes every day. If she isn’t telling new stories, you will find her revising old ones.

She writes an average of 3,000 words on most days. Writer’s block is foreign to her. That doesn’t mean she’s enthusiastic about writing every single day. The author has moments where she struggles to put pen to paper.

But that only happens when she doesn’t feel like writing, not because she doesn’t know what to write. This is because she approaches writing like a business, and you won’t find successful entrepreneurs closing their businesses for the day because they don’t feel like going to work.

Dale doesn’t plot her stories beforehand. She conceives an idea, identifies the major plot points, and then figures things out as she goes. She creates relatable characters because they feel so real to her as she tells their stories.

Dale’s first draft is always rough because she writes so quickly. It takes several stages of revision to create a manuscript worth publishing. The revision process is slow because the author uses paper copy.

She writes on a computer, revises on a paper copy, and applies the changes from the hard copy to the computer copy.

Best Dale Mayer Books

The author has a daughter who reads her YA novels as she writes them. She appreciates the feedback. Dale’s best novels include:

Tuesday’s Child: Samantha’s psychic abilities compelled her to live on the fringes of society. She had no interest in exposing her gifts to Detective Brandt Sutherland. But circumstances had forced her into the limelight.

A vicious killer was on the loose, and Samantha could see his victims. She felt every moment of their harrowing experience until they finally died, sending Samantha back into her body.

Detective Brandt was skeptical of Sam’s claims. But the woman’s visions kept revealing clues she couldn’t ignore. Now, the pair must join forces to stop the killer before he puts Samantha out of her misery.

Arsenic in the Azaleas: When her grandmother went into assisted living, she left Doreen her dilapidated house. The ancient property came with a monster-sized cat and a loud parrot, but the former socialite couldn’t afford to reject the offer, not when her ex-husband had abandoned her.

This was Doreen’s chance to start anew. The last thing she expected was for Goliath, her new cat, to find a body in the overrun garden. Now, Doreen must find the victim’s killer before the police arrest her grandmother for a murder she did not commit.

When Does The Next Dale Mayer book come out?

The next book by Dale Mayer is Merry Mistletoe Madness and will be released on December, 3rd 2024. It is the newest book in the Lovely Lethal Gardens Series.

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