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Skylar Robbins Clue Challenge!

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Calling all Skylar Robbins Secret Agents, mystery lovers, and middle grade readers! Want to contribute to my next Skylar Robbins novel? Use your imagination and decipher a clue to a new mystery that Skylar could have found in one of these rooms. Your idea could be incorporated in my next book! The winner will receive a personally autographed copy of my latest book, Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of the Missing Heiress. Thanks to Pinterest.com for the great photos. Leave a post describing your clue and what it means in the comments.

The Skylar Robbins series is available on Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, and Itunes.

Gwendolyn’s Revenge

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Skylar Robbins fans: I need your help! I’ve written a fantasy novella, Gwendolyn’s Revenge, which is a mini sequel to Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of Shadow Hills. The theme is witchcraft, spells, karma, and payback. Which of the attached stock photos do you think I should buy to make the best cover? Please vote for #1 (blue/green smoke), #2 (Ouija board), #3 (Candles and star) or #4 (candles and feather.) Leave your vote in the comments and you will be entered to win a free copy of Gwendolyn’s Revenge!

Skylar Robbins’s Porta-Detective Kit

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Porta-Detective Kit
New contest! What does Skylar Robbins’s Porta-Detective kit contain? If you have read Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of the Hidden Jewels you will know the answer. The third book in the series also contains the information you need.

Enter your answer of 3 or more items in the comments here, and you will receive a secret underground Skylar Robbins mystery novella, Gwendolyn’s Revenge–not available for sale anywhere! Guess at least one item in Skylar’s Porta-Detective kit and you’ll get a personal email from Carrie Cross including a free chapter of Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of the Missing Heiress! Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of the Missing Heiress is available now on Amazon.

Carrie Cross performs a Live Reading of Skylar Robbins

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Live Reading by Carrie Cross at the Waterford Public Library

It was wonderful meeting everyone at the Waterford Public Library in Waterford, Wisconsin Friday August 7th during my live reading of Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of Shadow Hills. The librarian, Tricia Cox, planned some fun crafts for the kids, including drawing with invisible ink pens, and using a fingerprinting kit with different colored ink and stamp pads.

After reading chapter one from The Mystery of Shadow Hills (Author Carrie Cross, Teen Mystery Press 2013), I signed books and took pictures with all of the Skylar Robbins fans. Then we had a drawing for prizes! Five kids won free toy binoculars to start their own detective kits, and one girl won a signed copy of The Mystery of Shadow Hills. Thanks to everyone who attended, and to Marjorie Stark Suto photography for recording the event. It was a lot of fun and I hope to come back again next year after publishing, Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of the Missing Heiress (Teen Mystery Press, 2016).

Author reading: Mystery of Shadow Hills

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Can’t wait to meet my Wisconsin fans on August 7th!
Author Visit: Carrie Cross
Waterford Public Library
Friday, Aug. 7, 10:00am
Author Carrie Cross presents: Skylar Robbins and the Mystery of Shadow Hills
Ms. Cross talks about being an author, performs a reading from her book, and explores the world of detectives with some fun crafts and activities.

New Clue!

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Secret Agents: Please help Skylar solve the Mystery of the Missing Heiress (2016) by deciphering the clues in this poem. Skylar located Xandra Collins’s diary and it was bursting with hidden clues. What could this one mean? Please post your guesses by leaving a reply, and sign using your Secret Agent code name.

To become a Skylar Robbins Secret Agent and receive a code name and Identikit, fill out the S.A.A.F. on this site.

White foam sprays and seagulls cry.

Bleached, white planks toast in the sun.

The children laugh and still I cry.

My life has come undone.

 

Family ties unravel fast.

Money burns our sordid past.

Jewels do tempt my nephews three;

Afraid of what will become of me.

 

Three in line to inherit mine:

Will Richard cook me a poison stew?

Will Herman prescribe a pill to kill?

Will Frederick make me laugh until I cry?

Until I die?

 

Beneath the pier is dark and deep.

Water cold and still I weep.

Secrets locked inside a box.

Seven rocks by seven rocks.

 

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Join my mailing list and you’ll get a FREE copy of Gwendolyn’s Revenge: a Skylar Robbins Fantasy Novella! Sign up below to receive new Skylar Robbins mystery announcements, free spy tips, and the chance to win a personally autographed copy of a Skylar Robbins mystery. Your address will never be shared or sold, and will only be used for Skylar Robbins announcements.

If you would like to become a secret agent and help Skylar solve her next mystery, fill out the Secret Agent Application Form (S.A.A.F.). If you have the necessary detective skills to sleuth with Skylar, you will be able to find it. If you are already a Skylar Robbins Secret Agent, remember to include your code name and badge number in any comments you make on my posts.

If you do not receive your Identikit within three days, it is because you emailed from an address that I cannot reply to, and I respect the parental control that may have blocked me from responding. Carrie Cross is very protective of her readers! Parents: please email me at Carrie at skylarrobbins dot com and I will send the Identikit to the address of your choice.

Fans can follow Carrie Cross on Facebook and Twitter and on Instagram: #secretagentskylar. All Skylar Robbins mysteries are available on Amazon.

Secret Agents: If you don’t get a quick reply…

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Agents: if you are not getting an Identikit email within a week, it is because you are emailing from an address that can not receive emails. I have had repeated requests from prospective agents and have replied to the address they emailed me from, and my return emails did not go through. Some schools, home computers, and libraries have blocks on their computers and can not receive incoming emails. This is for the students’ safety and I respect this!

Skylar responds to every Secret Agent request and fan letter. If you don’t get a response, it is because of your computer’s settings. Please ask your mom or dad to email me from an address I can reply to.

Happy sleuthing!

Love,
Skylar

SKYLAR ROBBINS: THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN JEWELS Available December 9, 2014!

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MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN JEWELS FRONT COVER

SKYLAR ROBBINS: THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN JEWELS, Book 2 in the Skylar Robbins Mystery Series, will be out in paperback on December 9, 2014: Read Tuesday!

Be one of the first 20 people to preorder your personally autographed copy through my website, and receive a FREE copy of book 1: SKYLAR ROBBINS: THE MYSTERY OF SHADOW HILLS! Makes a great holiday gift for a boy or girl, ages nine and up.

To preorder, leave a reply (below), fill in the contact form on my website, or send me a personal message on Facebook. Stay tuned for a free sneak preview (Chapter One) coming soon!