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Consuelo was a "Dollar Princess," the nickname coined for heiresses in the late 20th century who possessed multi-million dollar dowries and married cash-poor British and French aristocrats. The Gilded Age occurred after the...

Publication Date: April 6, 2021 What would you do to remember? What would you give to forget? When Tess Porter agrees to pick up her boyfriend’s college pal at the airport on a snowy...

I think about perseverance a lot. A whole lot. Writing a novel tests your perseverance every time. That blank page, the squirrely idea that won’t meld into a coherent story. You stick it...

When I started writing in 2009 as a humor columnist, I wrote in 800-word sound bites that wrapped up neatly and made people laugh, but made them think, too. It was a...

Readers often ask me when a book that I’m writing becomes real to me. I find that question fascinating because it inhabits a space at the intersection of the creative process and...

I get this question a lot. Why am I writing a cozy mystery series with a dog bakery? Actually, most people that ask seem sort of excited that I’m writing about a...

Publication Date: June 17, 2019 Jacelyn Cane's mom and dad liked their martinis dry: straight gin on the rocks with a dab of vermouth and a hint of water - and they liked...

I love Paris. What is it about this beautiful, historic city that pulls at the heart and the imagination? What is it that can make you want to explore time and again this...

I had terrible timing on Arrowed. Here I am writing a cozy mystery set in Santa Fe, only a few hours drive from me and one of my favorite places to visit,...

So, you’re not only a proud writer but after agonizing over adjectives, sentences, copy-paste, and other tidbits, you’ve finally closed the manuscript’s last chapter–hopefully well-edited; then re-edited again and then another 5-10...

A Sierra Pines B&B Mystery: Book 1 Publication Date: March 9, 2021 Take one quaint B&B, two kind but quirky caretakers, a dead aunt, a murdered friend, and you have mystery. Ali Winston finds...

Riding shotgun with a cop or detective is undeniably exciting. And yet, for many of us, nothing beats the thrill of the chase when your literary companion is professionally clueless. Novels that...