Bigfork authors release two new books for the holidays

Two Bigfork writers will read from their new novels as the holiday season aproaches.

Mae Schick and Leslie Budewitz each have new novels out.

A LIFE OF HER OWN

What happens when a woman homesteader in Montana protects a dark secret, or is pursued by homestead wives?

Mae Schick answers these questions and more in A Life of Her Own, a collection of five stories in Schick’s latest novel. A Life of Her Own covers a range of territory from the tense tale of “Mirna, A Life of Her Own,” to the vivacious journalist, “Sophie Writes from Montana.” Sophie faces open confrontation or alternatively, becomes embroiled in a violent confrontation. Nora, a woman in her sixties, “Takes a Chance,” by leaving behind her family in Ohio. The risk becomes greater than she imagines.

Mae Schick is a native Montanan who writes from Bigfork. She is the grandchild of homesteaders, and is the author of the novel, Lila.

She has a series of short stories about women homesteaders in Montana — people who eked out a living in the frontier. 

GUILTY AS CINNAMON

Bigfork author Leslie Budewitz will also have a book signing this Friday, Dec. 4, from 5-8 p.m. at Think Local in downtown Kalispell and on Saturday at Fact and Fiction in Missoula.

The Missoula signing is from 11:30 a.,m. to 1 p.m.

Budewitz will sign her new book, Guilty as Cinnamon.

In her new book, murder heats up Seattle’s Pike Place Market in the next Spice Shop mystery from the national bestselling author of Assault and Pepper.

Springtime in Seattle’s Pike Place Market means tasty foods and tourists, and Pepper’s Seattle Spice Shop is ready for the crowds. With flavorful combinations and a fresh approach, Pepper is sure to win over the public, until one of Pepper’s potential clients is found dead, her life extinguished by the hot ghost chili—a spice Pepper carries in her shop.