humorous mysteries
Your Sunday Chuckle: Molly MacRae Visits
It’s the first Sunday of the month, and that means I’m posting a humorous excerpt from another writer on the blog. We can all use a laugh from time to time (I know I sure can). This is an opportunity for all you mystery writers out there who like to write funny to share your…
Read MoreBlog 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 MoreYour 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…
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 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…
Read MoreIlene 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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