Iza Moreau


Biography

Iza Moreau lives in the southern United States, where she rides dressage at the fourth level and shoots target archery using both recurves and horsebows. She counts Sarah Waters, Maggie Estep, and the Bronte sisters--Acton, Currer, and Ellis--among her literary influences.

THE NEWS IN SMALL TOWNS is the first novel in the Small Town series. The second, MADNESS IN SMALL TOWNS, is also available as an e-book and a paperback. The third and last, SECRETS IN SMALL TOWNS, will finish the series in 2014. The main characters are also featured in a number of Small Town short stories, two of which are available for free on Smashwords. Eventually, the story collection will find their its to Smashwords as a volume in itself.

If you like the books, please give them a rating, both on Smashwords and Goodreads. That kilnd of word of mouth is really the only way that an indie author can succeed. You can reach Iza at iza@blackbayfarm.com

Books

Madness in Small Towns    by Iza Moreau
Price: $3.99 USD. 88090 words. Published by Black Bay Books  on February 2, 2013. Fiction.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Things are always a little wonky in Pine Oak, Florida. But lately reporter Sue-Ann McKeown, feels like every crazy thing is landing on her desk. For one thing, a former mental patient demands that Sue-Ann write his story—or else. And what is the meaning of the coded messages she hears on the local pirate radio station? And why has her new best friend quit her job and left town for places Unknown?
A Question of Breeding    by Iza Moreau
Price: Free! 7150 words. Published by Black Bay Books  on June 30, 2012. Fiction.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Sue-Ann McKeown is not a detective; she's a small-town newspaper editor. Yet mysteries keep cropping up and, well, somebody has to solve them, right? In this stand-alone story in the Small-Town series, Sue-Ann is approached by a fledgling horse breeder who suspects she may have been swindled when her new Trakehner's DNA test comes back squirrelly.
The News in Small Towns    by Iza Moreau
Price: Free! 103510 words. Published by Black Bay Books  on April 8, 2012. Fiction.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Sue-Ann McKeown returns to her home town after a crushing six months of war reporting in Iraq. She has given up her high-profile job in Virginia and broken up with her boyfriend. Even her new job with a small-town newspaper seems almost too much to handle, especially since her old high school rival works there, too. But a dead goat is in her future, as well as voodoo, horses, and maybe even love.
Sensei    by Iza Moreau
Price: Free! 6920 words. Published by Black Bay Books  on November 3, 2011. Fiction.

0.5 star(4.50 from 2 reviews)
Horses have been attacking their owners and handlers at rated dressage competitions. Sue-Ann McKeown, editor of a small-town newspaper in North Florida, decides to investigate. This is a stand-alone short story in the Small-Town series featuring Sue-Ann, who is a dressage rider and former national recurve archery champion.

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