Humor
Blog Review Tour for A Sporting Murder, novel #3 in the Eve Appel mystery series
This should be fun.! Tribute Books is hosting a blog tour for the newest book in the Eve Appel mystery series, but this tour will be a little different from many ohter blog tours. There will be thirteen stops and each one will post a review of the new book, A Sporting Murder. Camel…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreI 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,…
Read MoreFrom Cozy to Traditional
Author Judy Alter loves humor, but does she write it? Her first book published was a cozy, but now her series has evolved. About Judy Alter The American West called to me during much of my career. I wrote particularly about women in the West because I admired their strength, courage, and adaptability. For…
Read MoreTwo Heads Make it Funnier than One
I have Morgan St. James as my guest this week, and she has some specific ideas about how to take the grisly act of murder and create out of it a funny mystery. You’ll be impressed with her background, her books and the work she has done for mystery writers. Former interior designer, MORGAN ST…
Read MoreMurder 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…
Read MoreCats Rule! or so says Author Elaine Faber’s cat Thumper
Well, dogs can rule, too, but right now I have two cats who run my house, so I have to say they are tops or they might punish me by hacking up one of their hairballs on my pillow. Elaine Faber writes a humorous mystery series featuring a black cat who uses his ancestors’ memories…
Read MoreRaquel 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…
Read MoreAuthor 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…
Read MoreAuthor 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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