{Author Spotlight} TABITHA SHORT and her novel, HER SISTER'S MURDERER

Today the spotlight is shining on TABITHA SHORT! 

Title: Her Sister's Murderer
Author: Tabitha Short
Genre: Psychological Thriller, young adult
Website: www.AuthorTabithaShort.com

Kate thought it was something they had left behind long ago when they moved nearly two-thousand miles away, but when her best friend Abby talks her into visiting a psychic, the mystery is reawakened. Twenty-one years ago, four years before she was even born, her older sister had disappeared from the front porch of their cousin’s home. Without witnesses and without any evidence, the case went cold.

Abby’s had a crush on Adam for nearly two years and is more than ecstatic when she finally catches his attention. Secretly Kate has liked him since sixth grade and when she learns he is taking a weekend trip to see his brother in the same town where her sister had disappeared, she goes along. As their forbidden romance blooms and betrayal weighs heavily on her heart, she finds herself face to face with her sister’s murderer.

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Tabitha Short is best known for her young adult mystery book Her Sister's Murderer. The book was released in November of 2012 and held various ranks on the iTunes book charts until December, when it reached #8, making it an iTunes bestseller. Because of the story's success, Ms. Short has decided to expand by making it into a series. The second book will be titled Finding Cassie. You can purchase Her Sister's Murderer in print by visiting the Novels tab on this website, or by finding it on amazon.com. You can purchase it as an ebook on all major etailers of ebooks including amazon.com, iTunes.com, barnesandnoble.com, diesel-ebooks.com, kobo.com, sony.com, and lulu.com.

Ms. Short is also the author of the young adult fantasy book Arena Games: Legend of Petrova. The book was released April 15, 2013 and has quickly gained a following. The second book of this series is underway and does not have a release date yet. It will be subtitled Legend of Virtos. You can purchase Arena Games: Legend of Petrova in print by visiting the Novels tab on this website, or by finding it on amazon.com. You can purchase it as an ebook on all major etailers of ebooks including amazon.com, iTunes.com, barnesandnoble.com, diesel-ebooks.com, kobo.com, sony.com, and lulu.com.

You can also find a line of short stories in the horror genre from Ms. Short available as $0.99 ebooks. Their titles are The Please Do Feed the Animals Zoo, The Roller Coaster of Terror, and The Corpses of Old Farm Hill Road: The Arrogant Man. The first two are stand-alone short stories, while the third is the first in a series. A new short story in the collection will be released every Halloween until 2016. The subtitle for the Halloween 2013 release will be The Lost Soul. Visit the Short Stories tab to learn more and to purchase these horror short stories.

Ms. Short began her writing career very early, receiving awards and recognition in writing during her school years. She served as Editor-in-Chief of her high school newspaper and yearbook where she received multiple awards and scholarships that led her to study Journalism at Western Kentucky University. She served as a reporter and layout designer for Western Kentucky University College Heights Herald and Western Kentucky University Talisman. After graduation, she found herself pilfering through various marketing and sales jobs before landing in a position as a Supported Employment Specialist for a human services agency. She spends her free time as a freelance editor, author, and blog operator.

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Excerpt:

When she came to, she didn’t know how much time had passed. The hard dirt beneath her was cold against her soft cheek and she could feel someone's heavy presence. Pit pats of dirt pelted on top of her back first in small bits and then in shovel fulls. She couldn’t move because she was too weak. She tried to jiggle an arm, but it was as if her arm muscles weren’t connected to the fibers in her brain anymore. She couldn’t move anything. The scream she wanted so desperately to release was trapped in her dry throat. She was paralyzed. All she could do was lay there and listen as he piled the dirt on top of her. The pain from her broken leg was no longer present and she wondered how that was possible as her vision began to blur. Soon she was unconscious again.

Amazon Breakout Novel Award
ABNA ID: 7TQHYCTQ

The who-done-it scenarios are classic, but Her Sister's Murderer is unlike any other. It'll have you guessing all the way to the end. It's a young adult mystery/thriller that follows a nineteen-year-old girl as she seeks to find what happened to the sister she never knew--the sister who vanished without a trace. Kate expected to find out what happened, but she never thought she'd come to face to face with her sister's murderer.