humorous mysteries
A little romance with your dead body?
Not only does a cozy mystery need a crime to be solved, I think it also needs a bit of romance. Since cozies are often series books, this means the author can develop the relationship slowly. The question is how slowly? One book? Two? Or more? Looking over the series I have written, I…
Read MoreGuest blogger Lois Winston: Making Fun of Murder
She’s visited several times before, but I’m delighted to have author Lois Winston back again to my blog. Like me, shes a gal who likes to write humor, and she’s an expert at it. USA Today bestselling and award-winning author Lois Winston writes mystery, romance, romantic suspense, chick lit, women’s fiction, children’s chapter books, and…
Read MoreA Crowded Season for Murder
Fall is not my favorite season. Here in Upstate New York it is usually cold and wet, signaling for me the coming of snow, more cold and ice. But this year, we had no summer, only rain, rain, rain. So now we are enjoying summer, weeks of sunny, warm weather. A little late, perhaps, but…
Read MoreFiring My Muse
Once upon a time, I thought an alligator was my muse, at least when I wrote any of my books about rural Florida. One of the first mysteries I wrote set in rural Florida was a short story that won me the Sleuthfest 2009 short story contest sponsored by MWA FL Chapter. In it,…
Read MoreIn the beginning…
On Friday one of my favorite cozy writers, Nancy J. Cohen and I presented a program to a group of visual artists in Boca Raton, Women in the Visual Arts http://www.floridabooknews.com/2017/01/women-in-visual-arts.html. In discussing our work as cozy mystery writers, we showed some of our book covers. Although Nancy and I had both experienced publishers who gave us…
Read MoreToo cold for a ghost
We have only been here in our winter home for a few weeks, but managed to avoid an early winter snow in Upstate New York. My neighbors sent me a picture of our cottage covered in the white stuff, and that got me thinking about our resident ghost in the cottage, Fred. I thought I…
Read MoreTales from the Hayloft: The Bumblebee Skirt
Many of you know my passion for yard sales, consignment shops and stores that sell used clothing and household items. And some of you also know that I come by this passion via my father’s mother, my grandmother whom I have labeled the queen of recycling, reusing, redoing and reinventing. She took my aunt’s clothing…
Read MoreCats and Spies and World War II, Oh My!
Here’s a woman I’ve never met but who I know I love. She writes about cats who solve mysteries using the memories of their ancestors, and now she had a new series with a protagonist who loves to stick her nose into what’s going on on the home front during the second world war. What’s…
Read MoreOur September Chuckle, Funny Man Steve Shrott
Our Guest this month is Steve Shrott. His mystery short stories have been published in numerous print magazines and e-zines. His work has appeared in ten anthologies—two from Sisters-in-Crime (The Whole She-Bang, and Fishnets.) “Lucky Man,” his newest story, will be in Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #18. He has had two humorous novels published, Audition…
Read MoreSharing a Laugh: Sally Carpenter
It’s the first Sunday of the month, the day I feature a humorous excerpt from a mystery. Today Sally Carpenter is joining us with The Cunning Cruise Ship Caper. Cruising on the high seas was never so much fun… or so deadly. Sally is native Hoosier now living in Moorpark, Calif. She has a master’s…
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