Posts by LesleyADiehl
Author 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…
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,…
Read MoreFunny Characters Make a Funny Mystery from Author Jennifer Skully
We’ve got two for one today. Our guest blogger not only writes mysteries, but she also writes romance. Seems like a perfect combination to me. There’s nothing like a little romance to make a murder sing. NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Skully is a lover of contemporary romance, bringing you poignant tales…
Read MoreMurder and Mirth from Author Cindy Sample
Cindy Sample’s Dying For… mysteries feature some unusual scenes, like dueling backhoes! She also is fond of creating unusual and fun characters such as a grannie who drives a red Mustang convertible. So who better than Cindy to talk about humor and murder. Cindy is a former mortgage banking CEO who decided plotting murder was more entertaining…
Read MoreAuthor Marilyn Meredith , Blog Tour Stop
Marilyn Meredith will tell you she loves writing, but she’ll also tell you she loves her family and that she believes in a balanced life. In a recent blog she confessed to slowing down a little recently and not travelling as much as she used to, but that certainly has not affected her writing. She is…
Read MoreA Guy with Lots of Funny Creds
What a background this author has! Steve Shrott’s short mystery fiction has appeared in numerous print magazines and ezines. His work has been published in twelve anthologies––two from Sisters-in-Crime (Fish Nets and The Whole She-Bang.) He was a winner in the Joe Konrath short story contest. His humorous mystery novel, Audition for Death, was recently…
Read MoreMotorcycles, Murder and One Angry Woman
We are joined to day by Miriam Auerbach, author of a motocycle riding mama series set in Boca Raton (and you thought everyone there was over seventy, didn’t you). I had the pleasure of hearing Miriam on a panel last year at Sleuthfest, and she is a very funny gal. Where does all that humor…
Read MoreMurder is pure mayhem with these two authors
Two crazy ladies visit me today. Pam and Lorraine (writing as Ellie Campbell) give you their view of writing funny, really writing over-the-top funny. The book cover says it all: What’s So Funny About Murder? First, a confession. Murder really isn’t funny. At least I’d assume not. I haven’t ever been murdered. But I’m…
Read MoreKaye George thinks writing funny is good medicine
Kaye George is one of those writers whom I admire for her perserverence and for her talent. She writes traditional mysteries, historical mysteries and cozy mysteries with humor. She is truly multi-talented. Here’s what she has to say about writing funny stuff: Kaye Says: Why did I put humor in this mystery series? There…
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