Your Chance to Meet Eve Appel

A Sporting Murder, the third book in my Eve Appel mystery series will be released by Camel Press in July, but you don’t have to wait that long to read about Eve and her friend and business partner, Madeleine Boudreau.  There are three short stories about Eve and Madeleine available now on Kindle for $0.99…

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A Tall Gal Goes Short

Good news.  Camel Press will release the third in the Eve Appel mysteries,  A Sporting Murder, in July of this year.  As a promotional and prepublicity device, Camel will offer through Amazon three short stories about Eve and Madeleine.  The stories focus on the two consignment shop owners before they set up their shop in…

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I funny…What?

Last week the Florida Chapter of Mystery Writers of America held its annual conference.  Along with being responsible for on site regitration with my husband, Glenn Nilson, I also was a member of a panel on writing humorous mysteries. I was thrilled to be among some very talented writers: Sandra Balzo, Don Bruns, Tom Turner,…

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Raquel Reyes, author of funny short stories

  I’m so pleased to have Raquel Reyes on my blog this week.  She is truly a mistress of funny short stories, a talent she’s using to write a novel length humorous cozy mystery, and it sounds like a real heehaw.   Author RV Reyes I asked her as I do many of my guest…

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Author Kathleen Kaska says writing funny is a laugh

Here’s an author after my own heart.  She writes humorous mysteries, she’s an expert and has published books on some of my favorites like Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes, and she has the soul of an environmentalist.  Kathleen Kaska writes the award-winning Sydney Lockhart Mysteries. Her latest book, Murder at the Driskill, has just been…

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What did you do this year?

It’s already the middle of December, and I’m trying to figure out where the year has gone.  Well, I know part of the answer to that question.  I spent last winter with vertigo, the summer in the dentist’s chair when I wasn’t watching hubby build a new porch, a project that took summer and fall,…

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Murder and Mirth from Author Cindy Sample

Cindy Sample’s Dying For… mysteries feature some unusual scenes, like dueling backhoes!  She also is fond of creating unusual and fun characters such as a grannie who drives a red Mustang convertible.  So who better than Cindy to talk about humor and murder. Cindy is a former mortgage banking CEO who decided plotting murder was more entertaining…

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Murder is pure mayhem with these two authors

Two crazy ladies visit me today.  Pam and Lorraine (writing as Ellie Campbell) give you their view of writing funny, really writing over-the-top funny.  The book cover says it all:   What’s So Funny About Murder? First, a confession.  Murder really isn’t funny.  At least I’d assume not.  I haven’t ever been murdered.  But I’m…

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