Welcome to the cyber-home of Carolyn J Rose and Mike Nettleton, our pets, and our writing projects.
Our mysteries are set on the Oregon Coast (the Devil’s Harbor series from Krill Press), New York’s Catskill Mountains (Hemlock Lake from Five Star), Portland (the two-book Paladin series), and New Mexico (the three-book Casey Brandt series). We fictionalize about the places we’ve lived and worked in our careers in TV and radio.
We write individually and as a team—an undertaking that ranks right up there with roller skating on a calving glacier during a moderate earthquake. In fact, right now, thanks to Krill Press, we’re at work on book three of the Devil’s Harbor series.
Click on the cover of book two, Sometimes a Great Commotion, to find out why residents of the quirky Oregon town of Devil’s Harbor must make every flush count, who has hired a professional tree-sitter and why, and how the image scorched into a breaded crab cake is about to create chaos. It’s bedlam by the bay, chaos on the coast, another dustup in Devil’s Harbor, and another opportunity for reporter Molly Donovan to figure out whodunit.
The third book, involving a reality TV show, should emerge next fall. In between breaks, snacks, sleep, and our day jobs (in this economy you need more than one, right?), we’re writing as fast as we can.
For a change of pace, we’ve also written a fantasy. Years ago, for a few scary moments, Mike believed he was lost on the densely forested slopes of Humbug Mountain on the Southern Oregon coast. From that childhood experience, came a tale of evil ogres and trolls, an armless drummer, a woman given up for dead, and two unlikely teenagers assigned the daunting chore of saving the world.
If you’d like to read the first chapters of our books or learn more about us, please click on the appropriate spot.
We continue to teach writing classes through Clark College Continuing Education in Vancouver, Washington, and we support monthly writers’ mixers at Cover to Cover Books. We started the mixers in 2006 as a way to bring writers together to mix, mingle, and find support. By the next year they’d morphed into free mini-workshops featuring writers and writing coaches offering advice on aspects of craft.
For more information us, our classes, the mixers, or some of our humorous, suspenseful, and poignant projects still without publishers (yes, that’s shameless self-promotion), please get in touch with us through this website.
Carolyn Rose and Mike Nettleton.
For information on purchasing books, please check out each book’s page, or visit our publishers’ links below.
