Writing
Tales from the Hayloft: The Lonely World of an Only Child
I’m pretty certain there are more drawbacks to being an only child than there are advantages. People misunderstand growing up alone. They often assume the only child to be spoiled, the center of attention, the recipient of numerous gifts from parents and other relatives, all of this resulting in an individual who is self-centered and…
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 MoreSmall town issues in a cozy mystery: Author Judy Penz Sheluk
Where do writers find their inspiration? Judy Penz Sheluk looked at her town and found the heart of a cozy mystery. Judy Penz Sheluk’s debut mystery, The Hanged Man’s Noose (Barking Rain Press) was published July 2015. Her short crime fiction is included in The Whole She-Bang, World Enough and Crime, and most recently, Flash…
Read MoreF. M. Meredith Does It Again!
Yes, she’s doing yet another blog tour because, yes, she’s got yet another book out. And I am honored to be one of her blog stops. This woman leaves me breathless with the number of books she writes and her enthusiasm for promoting them. If the energizer bunny had a human face, I think…
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 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 MoreTwo 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…
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 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…
Read MoreWhat did you do this year?
It’s already the middle of December, and I’m trying to figure out where the year has gone. Well, I know part of the answer to that question. I spent last winter with vertigo, the summer in the dentist’s chair when I wasn’t watching hubby build a new porch, a project that took summer and fall,…
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