Mystery author's next book will set in this Fresno neighborhood

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Fresno writer is getting acceptable for her adjacent enigma novel's merchandise and publication signing event, and she says this publication is acceptable connected Halloween successful Fresno's Tower District.

Lorie Lewis Ham says she's been penning since she was capable to enactment sentences unneurotic and her works person been published crossed originative penning mediums since she was a teenager.

"I really was archetypal published erstwhile I was 13, but that was a poem and besides a song," Ham said. "I did people a batch of poems and articles and abbreviated stories, I worked disconnected and connected for our section paper done the years, and the archetypal enigma caller came retired successful 2000."

Since 2000, Ham has continued to constitute some for her assemblage done Kings River Life Magazine and for herself with enigma novels close retired of her imagination.

"I conscionable truly emotion storytelling successful each its forms," Ham said. "There's thing astir penning fabrication and conscionable creating that satellite and those people, it's conscionable a batch of fun."

Ham says the Tower District's affluent history, diversity, and tight-knit assemblage inspired her to driblet her characters into the vicinity to lick a murder. Ham adjacent incorporated existent businesses from the Tower District.

"In this [book], they're putting connected an Edgar Allan Poe play," Ham said. "Irene's is ever mentioned. It's [the protagonist's] favourite spot to spell eat. The Revue, which isn't The Revue anymore, The Alchemist, and Sequoia Brewing."

Ham besides says by penning astir the Tower District she has the chiseled pleasance of sharing Fresno with readers crossed the country.

"I person truly enjoyed radical not from this area, speechmaking [my books] and falling successful emotion with the Tower District and saying, 'Hey, if I ever get to Fresno, I privation to spell there.'"

According to Ham, penning astir the Central Valley is conscionable 1 of the ways she chooses to enactment her home. Ham's publication signing volition beryllium held astatine the Book Barn successful Clovis, a deliberate prime to enactment section literature.

Ham's caller "One of You," is the 2nd installment successful her enigma series. The publication signing for the caller volition beryllium held connected July 20, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.