Murder at the fair

Today author S. L Smith visits to talk about humor in murder mysteries.  I love the title of her book Murder on a Stick. Here’s what she says about her background:   A lifelong resident of Minnesota, I was born in Saint Cloud and attended Saint Catherine University in Saint Paul. The tall iron fence surrounding the campus…

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Two authors and a little extra with your murder

My husband and I once considered trying to write a mystery together.  That idea lasted for about five minutes.  We both write, we like to talk about writing, we love to share books we’ve read, but we rarely read one another’s work, and we certainly don’t critique it unless the other begs us and we…

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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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Author Lynn Cahoon, A Happy Ever After Gal

USA Today and New York Times, best-selling author, Lynn Cahoon is an Idaho native. If you’d visit the town where she grew up, you’d understand why her mysteries and romance novels focus around the depth and experience of small town life. Currently, she’s living in a small historic town on the banks of the Mississippi…

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Ilene Schneider, Rabbi and Author says humor is subjective

Like me, Ilene Schneider had one career, then retired to yet another.  I’m so happy she did because she writes funny cozy mysteries, some of the funniest you’ll ever read.  You’ll understand why when you rad waht she has to say about writing funny. Rabbi Ilene Schneider, Ed.D., one of the first six women rabbis…

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Funny Characters Make a Funny Mystery from Author Jennifer Skully

We’ve got two for one today.  Our guest blogger not only writes mysteries, but she also writes romance.  Seems like a perfect combination to me.  There’s nothing like a little romance to make a murder sing. NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Skully is a lover of contemporary romance, bringing you poignant tales…

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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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Author Marilyn Meredith , Blog Tour Stop

Marilyn Meredith will tell you she loves writing, but she’ll also tell you she loves her family and that she believes in a balanced life.  In a recent blog she confessed to slowing down a little recently and not travelling as much as she used to, but that certainly has not affected her writing.  She is…

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