“Older than dirt”

I have a birthday soon, too soon. It’s tomorrow. I won’t share with you how old I am, but I recently took a twenty-question quiz on Facebook. It was comprised of items from the past. If you remembered all 20 of them, then you were “older than dirt.” I was “older than dirt.” Each year…

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A 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…

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A Library Book: Stories from Childhood

This past summer I wrote a series of blogs about growing up on a farm. The series was entitled “Tales from the Hayloft.” Many of you commented on the ways in which your childhood influenced your writing or your reading choices as an adult. One of my internet writing buddies did more than that. She…

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Tales 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…

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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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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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Gator Aid

Winner 2009 Sleuthfest Short Story Contest Sponsored by Mystery Writers of America, Florida Chapter Whenever I do anything with my friend Madeleine, there’s trouble.  Motel hallways flood, mice catapult out of fireplaces in Tuscan villas, and luggage loaded into the belly of our tour bus disappears by the next stop.  I’m not saying it’s Madeleine’s…

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