Library Speaking Event

Tonight at 6:00pm I, (Renee Hand) am going to be at the Goodrich Library in downtown Goodrich for a discussion with children of the ages 11-17 about how to become a better writer. I am excited about this. If anyone has a chance to come, please do. It is a free discussion to participate in. See you there. For more events check out the on-line calender at the Genesee District Library. I will be at three other libraries throughout the month of July. Thanks!

Linden Summer Happenings

Over the weekend I was at the Linden Summer Happenings selling The Case of the Missing Sock as well as The Case of Red Rock Canyon and my romance novels. It was two glorious days of meeting people and talking to budding writers. I met a few who love to write, and anything I can do to encourage a child to write, I will do. Some of these great children will be sending me some of their work and I will be posting it on my website. Check them out on my Writers Showcase Page at http://www.reneeahand.com/. Currently, me and my boy's are reading The Trumpet of the Swan. We are enjoying it so far. I will be writing a review as soon as we are finished.

June 26th Book Tour Stop

Hello! Today is the last day of my book tour. It has definetly been an interesting tour. I hope everyone has been able to stop and say hello or has learned more about the series. I am going to be on two sites today. The first is http://myheartbelongs2books.blogspot.com/ They will be reviewing Book 1-The Case of the Missing Sock. The other stop today http://www.thewriterslife.blogspot.com/ should be an interview about me and my book. Feel free to stop by and check them out. Thank you to all who have stopped by and posted comments or who have just taken the time to look at the sites and my books. It is greatly appreciated. Coming up next week to my blog will be interviews of children's books as well as learning games. Please check it out and comment. If anyone has a children's book and wishes for me to review it, please email me at thecryptocapersseries@gmail.com or if you happen to have a learning game that has helped your child grasp a concept, let me know and I will review it and check it out. Thanks!

June 25th Book Tour Stop

Today I will be making a stop at two places. The first will be at http://booktoursandmore.blogspot.com/ at this stop I talk about Virtual Book Tour Promotions and how wonderful of a job they did. If anyone has the money to do it and wants to get more exposure for themselves and their books, then try this. I highly reccomend it. The other stop today is http://thefriendlybooknook.com/ I believe they will be reviewing my book 1-The Case of the Missing Sock. Hope everyone stops by and says hello. Thanks!

June 24th Book Tour Stop

Hello everyone! Today I am going to be visiting two blog stops for my virtual book tour. The first is the following blog.
http://martasmeanderings.blogspot.com/2009/06/review-of-crypto-capers-in-case-of.html
Marta has reviewed The Case of the Missing sock-Book 1 and The Case of Red Rock Canyon-book 2. What a great review! Please check them out and leave a comment. I have also left more cryptograms for those of you who are keeping track.

Next stop is at the following blog http://www.sheistoofondofbooks.com/2009/06/23/book-review-the-crypto-capers-the-case-of-the-missing-sock-by-renee-hand-middle-reader/comment-page-1/#comment-16791
Dawn has also reviewed my blog. She also gave the book a great review. Check it out and say hello! I hope you are enjoying my book tour.

June 23rd Book tour stop and Summer Reading Contest

Hello
Today I am going to be visiting http://www.momstakeonthings.com/?p=4242
On this blog my book 1- The Case of the Missing Sock, was reviewed. The reviewer loved the book. Come and see what she said about it.

I am also having a summer reading contest for children. It will start on July 1st through September 1st. Children ages of 9-13 can participate. Your challenge is to read 40 books by the end of summer. You must e-mail and send to me the list of books you read along with the authors name, of course title, and at least a few sentences to no more than a paragraph of what each book was about or you can write about your favorite part of the book. Everyone who completes the contest will get a free signed copy of one of my books in the Crypto-Capers Series. If you have already read book one then I will send you book 2. If you already read books 1 & 2 then I will send you book 3 when it comes out in the fall. Good luck to everyone!
Send book information to thecryptocapersseries@gmail.com

June 22nd blog book tour stop

Hello everyone
Today I am going to be stopping at the following blog: http://www.thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/ I will be talking about book 1 of my new children's detective series, The Crypto-Capers in the Case of the Missing Sock. This is a great interview because I talk of why I wrote the series. I hope everyone will enjoy! Remember to check out my website for all of the things I will be doing. http://www.reneeahand.com/

Legend of the Golden Monkey Answers

Keep in mind that at the beginning of the book you are supposed to create your own cipher key like the one I provided on page 24. Notice I gave you 6 clues. Three on page 24 and three on page (v) at the beginning of the book, so if you skipped it then you missed something very important.



Pg. 23 TO BE ELEVEN TURLTES, LITTLE AND SLOW.



You were supposed to write down the beginning letter for each word.



TBETLAS



Rearrange them:



TABLETS



Pg. 38 Mayan numbers are 8 and 13



Pg. 97 has five cryptograms and you needed to put them in order



HAVE THEY ARRIVED YET?



THEY ARE STAYING AT A HOTEL IN CHICHEN ITZA.



WHAT HAVE THEY FOUND?



IN CAROCAL THE TREASURE AWAITS, BUT NO SIGN OF TABLETS.



MISLEAD OUR FRIENDS WHEN POSSIBLE. USE THE ITEM I SENT.



The title to book 4 is: The Chest of Mystery



It is already out! Hope you enjoy.

June 19th Book Tour & Updates

Hello Everyone,
For today on my virtual book tour, I am being interviewed by the following blog: http://www.savvyverseandwit.com/
Please check it out. I will be talking to everybody about my writing process. Feel free to comment or to ask me questions. I am more than happy to reply to them. After my book tour I will be putting interviews up of children's books so if anyone is an author of a children's book and would like me to review their book. Please contact me at thecryptocapersseries@gmail.com I post the interview on several sites, including all of mine. I am also going to be reviewing products for homeschool parents/teachers. If anyone homeschools their children and is looking for new products that might help them or if you have a product that you feel really helped make a difference in your child's education, let me know and I will post it on my website or put an article up.

Cryptograms for yesterday were posted. If you didn't get them, at the end of next week I will post all of them for everyone, don't worry. Everyone will have a chance at earning a free book or poster, by posting comments at my tour stops or solving the cryptograms.

June 18th Book Tour Stop

The Crypto-Capers Series book tour will be stopping at two places today. The first stop will be at blogcritics. They did a great interview on me and my books.
http://blogcritics.org/books/article/interview-with-renee-hand-author-of/

The second stop will be at pop syndicate. They also have a very nice interview about me and my books. http://www.popsyndicate.com/books This one should be up soon!

Please check them out and comment. If you have any questions at all let me know. I look forward to hearing from you.
Cryptograms are posted on each site. If they do not show then I will post them here.
Thanks!

June 16th New book tour stop

I am going to be at the following book tour stops today for Divine Caroline. She is interviewing me about my new childrens series. We are discussing book 1 and book 2 of the series. The Case of the Missing Sock and The case of Red Rock Canyon.

http://www.divinecaroline.com/49804/75956-new-interactive-reading-series-kids

http://www.divinecaroline.com/49804/75958-new-interactive-reading-series-kids

Please check them out. It is a two part interview asing me great questions about getting reluctant readers to read as well as enjoying more of what they are reading. Hope this helps everyone.

June 15th post for today's book tour stop

Hello everyone! Today I am going to be visiting the following blog for my book tour for the crypto-capers series. Book 1 in The Case of the Missing Sock. The American Chronicle has done an interview on me and my books. It is a great article and I am really excited about it. Hopefully you will enjoy it too. Remember to post your comments. You may not be able to there, because of that you can post them here on my blog. Here is the cryptogram for the day.

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/104784

SK BKGKC FBTKCHZWBT W ZXUBA HM SKOO, WBT EWQK UZ MFC MSB, WH SXKB SK XWGK TUHJMGKCKT UZ DMW MFCHKOGKH.

New Tour Spot

Hello Everyone
Today I am going to be visiting on my tour: http://abookbloggersdiary.blogspot.com/2009/06/author-guest-post-renee-hand.html?showComment=1244719459451#c6148469435709902350
This blog gives everyone a good summary about what my Crypto-Capers Series is about and what I had in mind for it. I will also be visiting this site as well: http://scribevibe.blogspot.com/
This site has a great interview with very good questions about me and my writing and some of the challenges I have faced and so on. Please check them out. I posted cryptograms on both sites and I look forward to reading everyone's responses and comments. If you have any questions at all let me know.
Thanks!

Next Tour Stop

Hello Everyone,
Today I am going to be at the followng blogspot.
http://valleygirlmusings.blogspot.com/2009/06/real-hollywood-trivia-interview-with_10.html
This is a really neat blog because I get asked questions about my characters and about some fun trivia questions. Check it out and comment. Yesterday for some reason my blogs did not post so I am going to put the other cryptograms I have put out on this blog. I don't want anyone to miss one. Here you go and thanks for checking out my Crypto-Capers Series Tour. I am having a great time and I hope that you are too.

5)
HNRGUGDMJ UX BFG FBCK GEJ HNJRGJXG FA SUNGDJX, QDG GEJ ZRNJBG FA RCC FGEJNX.

6)
DNHSJRZ ISJFWV RQ GJUL HWHJF RNQVL KNQ HSL VCJSJRYHGGZ TLHT.

7)
NMJL GAE NTL XNHLGJ DGXX ZA.

8)
EVZ GEV GEZ GEXH E GMTIEXH, YOI VLVH YOI E ULLD QMDD FLVIMVOH MV MI.

9)
OWS YCMOCRATCMWCRA FQGFSQOZ GK BUR CM OG MSUQJW KGQ URY OG KGXXGN UKOSQ OQTOW.

Tour blog stop for June 8th & June 9th

Today and tomorrow I am going to be on the following blogspot:
http://theplotline.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/the-crypto-capers-in-the-case-of-the-missing-sock-by-renee-hand/
This is an interesting blog because for the 8th there is a summary about me then the 9th there is an interview, which I think that all of my readers are going to love and enjoy. I interviewed Granny Holmes and we all know how wonderful and eccentric she is. Please check it out and see how the interview went. Please comment. I look forward to reading what everyone has to say. Cryptogram #8 is posted on the website. If for some reason it doesn't post I will post it here.
Thank you to everyone for all of your wonderful comments thus far at all of my stops. I greatly appreciate it. Also keep in mind that book 2 is out as well, The Case of Red Rock Canyon. The adventure continues.

New tour stop!

I am going to be at http://www.cafeofdreams.blogspot.com/ for my next tour stop today. Check it out. Cryptogram #7 is posted on the site. I look forward to hearing from you. Ask me anything you want about writing and I am more than happy to answer it. Have a great day!

June's 4th Tour Stop

I am going to be at the following blog spots today: http://bookexcerpts.wordpress.com/ and http://www.zensanity.blogspot.com/
Please check them out. I already posted the cryptogram on book excerpts, but for some reason it was not posted, at least when I checked it, so here it is. Cryptogram #5!

HNRGUGDMJ UX BFG FBCK GEJ HNJRGJXG FA SUNGDJX, QDG GEJ ZRNJBG FA RCC FGEJNX.

I also posted cryptogram #6 on zensanity's blog. If it doesn't show up before the day is over then I will post it here as well.
Good Luck!

Cryptogram updates

Hello everyone
You will not need to have my books to solve the cryptograms that I am leaving at each blog stop on my tour. I created these to challenge you. I am not going to provide a cipher key to help you, the challenge of this is for you to figure the cryptograms out for yourselves. I actually solve cryptograms every night before I go to bed without any help of a cipher key. But here is some information to help you if you are not familiar with cryptograms. What I am using is called a substitution cipher, what this means is that I am substituting one letter of the alphabet for another. This is the same kind of cipher I am using in my books.
No letter ever stands for itself, for example, a C will not stand for a C. The most common three-letter words include; the, and, but, for & are. Common two letter words are; it, is, of & in. The order of frequency of the most used letters in the English language is; E, T, A, O, I, N, S, H, R, D, L, U. Think of your blends and digraphs and that will help you. I am offering a free book to anyone who can solve all of my cryptograms and e-mails the answers to me at the end of my tour. I hope this helps everyone.

Just in case you cannot find the cryptograms that I have left behind so far, here they are.

1)

VXY ZYSTHHTHSF NK PEE VXTHSF PJY FGPEE.

2)

OPR JDLR DM NRTSOU XTBOQ OD NR NDWV BV OPR PRTWO DM RLRWU APBJH.

3)

OLRZPAR TPXB, LR LW BCWD RP HBTLBXB RZCR JBCRZ LW GLICT, HAR OLRZ LR—LKNPWWLHTB!

4)

FLGWG NX J FNIG CRW ANENZM JZO J FNIG CRW MNENZM GVSWGXXNRZ FR ANCG

New Tour Stop for June 3rd

Today I am going to be visiting http://donna-mcdine.blogspot.com/
The interview talks about book 1 of my series, The Crypto-Capers in the Case of the Missing Sock. Hope everyone enjoys it. The interview was fun to do and I hope it is insightful. If anyone has any questions about writing please let me know. I look forward to hearing from you. Cryptogram 4 is on Donna's comment page.

New review and new tour stop

My stop today will be at the following link. The Book Rack wrote a review about book 1 and book 2 of my series. I am so excited about it. Please check it out. Cryptogram 3 was left at this site if you are keeping track. Thanks!

June 2: http://thebookrack.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/the-crypto-capers-in-the-case-of-the-missing-sock/#comment-212

Answer Key for The Case of Red Rock Canyon-Book 2

Here is the answer key for book 2 in my detective series: The Case of Red Rock Canyon
This book was definetly tougher, but I hope you enjoyed it.

Tips/Hints/ Discoveries
In this book, V & T both equals L. I don't normally do that but this time I did. Also, when I said to write in all of the lower case letters, that means that you need to write in what those lower case letters stand for. Which is why you needed to answer the cryptograms.

Here we go: Cipher Key

F=A
N=B
K=C
H=D
G=E
O=F
R=G
J=H
Z=I
U=J
Q=K
V & T=L
D=M
I=N
Y=O
C=P
S=R
X=S
L=T
M=U
A=W
B=Y

Pg. 9, 46 & 47
Answer: A JEWEL SO RARE SHOULD BE HIDDEN WITH CARE.

Pg. 68
CHEST=24378

Pg. 74
A COMPASS POINTS THE WAY THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS OF TIME GONE BY.

Pg. 78
MOUNTAINS EDGE EXPLORATION PARK

Pg. 97
BELOW THE CANYON YOU WILL FIND WHAT YOU SEEK.

Pg. 121
JUIASSRNCLO-TRANSLATED TO JULIAN CROSS

Pg. 122
You cross off the second S to get: 585-426-2767

Pg. 133
Next case is at: RIVIERA MAYA

Pg. 134

The title of book three is: THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN MONKEY

New Review

Please check out my new review from Lady D Book Reviews on http://ladyd-books.blogspot.com/2009/05/review-of-crypto-capers-book-1-and-2-by.html
I am really excited about it. Also, I left cryptogram 1 in her comments so check it out if you are tracking the cryptograms I am sending out to get a free book at the end of my tour. Cryptogram 2 will be left at my interview today. Remember that you will have to solve them! Fun! Fun! For a free poster and to earn a free book remember that you have to leave comments at each stop. Thanks!

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