Yes, but the titles listed here are sold as retail. If you would like to order Mira Gibson's book club books (especially Who Killed Leeanne? and Thomas from the Sea) in bulk, we strongly recommend that you order through Ingram Content Group.

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"Mystery" is a very diverse genre of fiction. For years, Mira Gibson's mystery novels were categorized as psychological mystery, psychological suspense, and psychological thrillers. This remains the case, and her titles are regarded as "dark." The cozy mystery genre is the polar opposite. Cozy mysteries offer light-hearted whodunit stories that tend to be witty and upbeat. When Mira wanted to begin writing cozies, she knew that her current fans probably wouldn't buy this subgenre. And so, she decided to start writing as Catherine Gibson.

The decision to self-publish is highly personal to each author, and a number of contributing factors influence this decision. There's a common misconception that self-published authors were rejected by the traditional publishing industry and therefore had no choice but to self-publish. In 2024, this is rarely the case. Writers who opt to self-publish typically have two primary characteristics. They're prolific and their business savvy. Though this is admittedly an oversimplification, writers that lean towards the traditional publishing industry tend to take "longer" to write their books, and they also prefer their publisher to handle the "business" side of things. By contrast, independent authors tend to produce their books at a faster rate. Generally faster than the traditional publishing industry can accommodate. Many self-published, best-selling authors produce one novel per month, and they aren't sacrificing quality. Nowadays, if a reader is hunting through Amazon or even at their local bookstore, they will be hard pressed to distinguish between the traditionally published titles and the independently published titles... until they look at the publisher's credit inside the book.

When you come across a website that offers free downloads of books (epub, mobi, or PDF files), you have probably visited a piracy site. The files on these types of websites have been stolen. Cyber thieves continue to develop technologies to "rip" ebook content from selling platforms like Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, Smashwords, and lesser known sites. Even DRM protected files have not been able to prevent piracy. The primary reason to buy authorized ebooks, and not pirated ones, is to support the authors who wrote them. When authors aren't paid, there's little incentive to continue producing stories. The other equally important reason to avoid downloading pirated ebooks is that you are probably not a cyber genius. Authors and their attorneys constantly discover these sites and file crime reports with the FBI, which are then tracked. The cyber pirate in Africa or Asia will probably not be caught and penalized, but you could be. You can learn more about this at Lumen and the IC3 Division of the FBI. To give you a glimpse of the financial damage that occurs after piracy, one of Mira Gibson's first novels, Daddy Soda, was pirated after it was released as an ebook in 2015. Between 2015 - 2024, the estimated loss in sales due to circulating pirated copies was roughly $130,000. If you're enthusiastic about an author and their work, you should be willing to buy their book, or wait until they're running a free promotion, which indie authors often do!