New Publications and a Reminder of my New Newsletters

Posted on May 16, 2023May 15, 20231 Comment

Dear all, I am hoping that you got the blog posts I sent out last spring and summer that explained that I wasn’t going to post from my website anymore and that told you about the two newsletters I set up to replace these posts. However, since I’ve published two books since then, one a novella called Mrs. Stein Solves a Crime, and the fourth book in my science fiction Caelestis Series, entitled, Tides of Acerba, I thought this would be a good time to remind you all about these newsletters and in case you would like to give them a try. The first newsletter, which has been going for over a year now, is called An Aging Author’s Daily Diversions, and it is the continuation of the daily diary I first started doing during Covid. In these daily posts Read more…

Shift to New Blog and Newsletter Complete

Posted on July 6, 2022January 16, 2023Leave a comment

Dear Reader, I have been delighted with the response to my decision to shift my blogs over to my new daily newsletter, An Aging Author’s Daily Diversions, on substack.com. I currently have over 360 subscribers, and I have enjoyed interspersing my general posts about my writing progress and attempts to maintain a good healthy balance to my life with little descriptions of the research I’ve done called Historical Tidbits, weekly posts of my father’s poetry, as well as periodic posts about my experience as an Indie Author. If you click link above, you can sample some of these posts and see if you would like to subscribe. If you are only interested in getting news about new publications, hearing about ebook and audiobook discounts, or participating in my Audiobook Raffle, then you should subscribe to M. Louisa Locke’s Monthly Newsletter. Read more…

A blog about why I am going to stop blogging

Posted on April 19, 20222 Comments

I have a number of promotional deals to tell you about for the month of April (see below), but first I would like to discuss my new experiment with a more efficient and effective method of communicating with other authors and fans of my work—by setting up a newsletter I’ve called An Aging Author’s Daily Diversions on substack (you might be familiar with this as the site hosting Letters from an American by historian, Heather Cox Richardson.) Currently, I have three primary methods of communicating with people—this blog, monthly promotional newsletters, and daily posts on my Author FaceBook page. There have been problems with all three. For example, this blog has become less and less effective. I used to post 2-3 articles per month, and many of my subscribers were other authors who were interested in hearing about my journey as Read more…

Going Wide with Audiobooks: Findaway Voices and Chirp Update

Posted on March 28, 20222 Comments

I am currently in the middle of a promotion of the audiobook editions of my Victorian San Francisco Mysteries: Books 1-4 ($1.99), Pilfered Promises ($1.99), Scholarly Pursuits ($2.99) and Lethal Remedies ($3.99). I wouldn’t have been able to do this promotion if I hadn’t made the decision to shift my audiobooks from being exclusive to ACX (Amazon’s audiobook production and distribution arm) to being non-exclusive and distributing through Findaway Voices. This shift meant my audiobooks would still available on Amazon and Audible, but they would now be available on a whole host of additional venues. Findaway Voices currently distributes books to over forty partners, including Audible. Three years ago, I discussed the reasons for making this shift in this blog piece and this seemed like a good time to provide an update on how this shift has worked out for me. Read more…

Dandy’s Daring Deeds

Posted on February 9, 2022Leave a comment

As I finished writing Entangled Threads, my latest novel in the Victorian San Francisco Mystery series that came out last week, I realized with some regret that I hadn’t found a way to bring Dandy, the Boston Terrier, into the story. At the same time, it occurred to me that a good number of people who read (or increasingly listen to) my full-length novels haven’t encountered my shorter works, which is where I have given Dandy the opportunity to play a more predominant role. So, I decided to put together the three shorter works that feature Dandy (and an excerpt from a longer work) in this collection (which represents a considerable discount from buying the stories separately). I hope you will take the time to get reacquainted (or acquainted for the first time) with Dandy and his young friends in Read more…