A couple days ago, this post was going to be about how Gary Paulsen’s wilderness stories influenced my writing or a list of novels featuring women surviving through winter, but as I...
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In a 2018 presentation at New York City’s BookExpo on the future of retail, it was opined that physical retail is most certainly not dead, but that the paradigm has changed....
Cozy mysteries may be fictional crime novels, but they’re also a great source for learning new things. A good cozy mystery will include a satisfying mystery or puzzle for the reader to...
Writing is a passion but not my occupation. My day job is one of being a global banker based in Sydney, Australia. It’s a job I love because of the people I...
I grew up surrounded by animals. My mom worked as a veterinary technician, so her love of animals permeated our small family. My dad was not a cat person when the two of them...
What’s cozier than a cozy mystery? Maybe a cozy mystery set during the holidays? I don’t have any hard data, but I feel that most cozy mystery authors and readers love the...
When beginning a new cozy mystery series, one of the early decisions in developing the protagonist is deciding what they do for a living. Some considerations: the job must be flexible (gotta...
Throughout my life I have always admired other women who have been changing the world with their brilliant, curious minds; and courageous, passionate hearts.
From a young age, I have always admired the...
There is a newborn photo of me in a Dakar maternity clinic, crying in my mother’s arms. On the bedside table to her left is a large gift box wound with a...
I’ve often been asked if the “Shamelessly Adorable” Teddy Bear books are for kids. Uh… no. It’s not all cute and cuddly in the series—murders do happen! But thankfully “off the page,”...
History books show how Abraham Lincoln spent many hours at the telegraph office during the civil war. It was a modern time moving fast with an explosion of new technology: steamboats, trains,...
My best day ever as an author happened six weeks after I published my third Julia Fairchild mystery, Pickled Pink in Paris. It was my first trip visiting the City of Lights...