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Barbara DaCosta—
Writer & Author




NIGHTTIME NINJA by Barbara DaCosta,
illustrated by Ed Young
(Little, Brown, September 2012)

Barbara DaCosta writes for children and adults alike. Her children's picture book debut is Nighttime Ninja, illustrated by Caldecott Award-winning artist Ed Young (Little, Brown 2012) . Her debut as a mystery writer came with the short story "Cabin 6" in the anthology Resort to Murder, edited by Minnesota Crime Wave. Meanwhile, she's putting the finishing touches on her novel Death by the Depot—the tale of a murder, the search for a missing man, and the uncovering of a nest of crime at a nursing home—features Thea Franco, a hardworking, overly curious, detail-oriented researcher with a stable of quirky clients---divas, dealers, teachers, historians, waitresses, and lawyers. Sometimes, though, Thea finds she’s taken on way more than she can handle….

• By the way, DaCosta rhymes with "the coast-ah," and is spelled DaCosta (i.e., not Da Costa, Dacosta, or DeCosta).
• You can reach Barbara at barbaradacostaauthor at gmail dot com (substitute symbols). This site was previously www.nighttimeninja.net.

• Your patronage of independent bookstores means you'll get diversity of book choices, highly knowledgeable staff, help the environment, and support your local community and local economy. See the American Booksellers Association website for more compelling facts.

• Children's specialty bookstores satisfy the youngster's craving for reading and learning and are just fun places, period! Here's a link to the Association of Booksellers for Children.

• Mystery bookstores provide you with great selection, author appearances, expertise, and more! Here's a link to the Mystery Booksellers Association.

• Barbara is an enthusiastic user of Scrivener Software--created by a writer, for writers. Visit the Scrivener site for more information.


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BOOKSTORES for YOU to EXPLORE

  • Prairie Lights--Iowa City
  • Book Sense--Find an Independent Bookstore Near You
  • Independent Mystery Booksellers—Support your local stores!
  • Birchbark Books--Minneapolis
  • Common Good Books--St Paul
  • Once Upon a Crime--Mystery Books
  • Red Balloon Bookshop--Children's Books St Paul
  • The Book Shelf--Winona
  • Uncle Edgar's Mystery Bookstore—Minneapolis
  • Wild Rumpus Books for Children--Minneapolis

CHILDREN'S BOOK AUTHOR/ARTIST LINKS

  • Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast (Great blog about picture books with emphasis on art)
  • Pen and Ink (Picture Books)
  • Ed Young
  • Jackie Urbanovic
  • Pogo--Walt Kelley
  • Will Hillenbrand--A fascinating look behind the scenes of a making a book

LITERARY LINKS

  • Book Sense--Find an Independent Bookstore Near You
  • Sherlock Holmes Collection U of M
  • Kerlan Collection U of M--Children's Books, Art, MS
  • In Reference to Murder—An outstanding catalogue of mystery information and links by a librarian
  • Book Page--news, interviews, reviews
  • Independent Mystery Booksellers—Support your local stores!
  • Internet Voices Radio—books, authors, and more
  • Midwest Book Review—an independent source of reviews and information for readers, writers, publishers, and stores
  • Reading Minnesota
  • Sisters in Crime—National mystery writers' association
  • Stop You're Killing Me—Mystery Resources

On Writing & Books

  • Illustration Friday--Weekly Event
  • Mystery Writing—Gillian Roberts
  • National Novel Writing Month
  • On Writing—Timothy Hallinan's excellent guide
  • Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
  • The Loft Literary Center
  • Writing Mysteries—P. D. James

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RAIL LINKS

  • Minnesota Transportation Museum
  • Lake Superior Rail Museum
  • Train Web—Links for all interests
  • National Association of Railroad Passengers

MYSTERY AUTHOR LINKS

  • Books 'n' Bytes: Huge listing of mystery & sci-fi authors and books with links
  • Carl Brookins
  • David Housewright
  • Deborah Woodworth
  • Ellen Hart
  • Erin Hart
  • Jess Lourey
  • Judith Yates Borger
  • Julie Kramer
  • Laura Childs
  • Lisa Scottoline
  • Lori Lake
  • Marilyn Victor & Michael Mallory--Snake Jones
  • Minnesota Crime Wave
  • Monica Ferris
  • Pat Dennis
  • Patry Francis
  • Penny Dreadful Stories
  • Resort to Murder
  • Sujata Massey
  • Vince Flynn
  • William Kent Krueger
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