Author Matt Cost will hold a discussion on the art of writing a book – from idea to marketing and everything in between – using his latest mystery novel, “Mainely Wicked,” as an example from 4-5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 5, in the Androscoggin Community Room at the Auburn Public Library.
“Mainely Wicked” is the fifth book in the Brunswick-based mystery series with PI and mystery bookstore owner Goff Langdon. Langdon is hired to find a man who answered a classified ad and then disappeared into thin air. And then a second person vanishes. What starts as a couple of simple missing-person cases quickly spirals into a diabolical world of witches, wiccans, and wendigos. He has also published four books in the Clay Wolfe Trap series, with the fifth, “Pirate Trap”, due out in December of 2023. For historical novels, Cost has published “At Every Hazard” and its sequel, “Love in a Time of Hate”, as well as “I am Cuba”. In April of 2023, Cost combined his love of histories and mysteries into a historical PI mystery set in 1923 Brooklyn, “Velma Gone Awry”.
Matt Cost was a history major at Trinity College. He owned a mystery bookstore, a video store, and a gym, before serving a ten-year sentence as a junior high school teacher. In 2014 he was released and began writing. He now spends his days at the computer, writing. Cost lives in Brunswick with his wife, Harper. They have four grown children, a chocolate lab, and a basset hound.
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