Dec 8, 2019 | Cozies, Reviews
Brewed Awakening, by Cleo Coyle This eighteenth in the series will give you all that you expect. And something you did not. Masterfully staying within the cozy genre, Cleo Coyle blankets us with an undertone of true fear about memory loss. While delighted about the...
Mar 21, 2018 | Cozies, Guest Authors, Spectacle
Murder, Schmurder, and the Seaside Cove Mysteries by Terry Ambrose It was thirty years ago when I decided to write a book. Not just any book but a mystery. With an antagonist who died on the first page. Yes, I know. Getting rid of the bad guy immediately might have...
Mar 10, 2018 | Cozies, Reviews
Plum Tea Crazy I’ve followed the tea shop series from book one, and the latest installment is just what I expected and trusted from a Laura Childs book. Plum Tea Crazy can be read as a stand-alone, but why deprive yourself? Start at the beginning (see earlier reviews...
Apr 7, 2017 | Cozies, Interviews
I feel so loved when authors drop by with a special gift. Tonya Kappas, author of Southern Fried, brought me a jar of moonshine. I’m okay with that. It’s been a long week. We settled in with coffee and a drop of the special “shine,” and the...
Mar 17, 2017 | Cozies, Interviews, Spectacle
Enjoy my visit with Laura Childs, tea, and red herrings! Then click HERE for a review of Pekoe Most Poison. I’m so thrilled you stopped by. I know how you love tea, so I prepared these seventeen flavors for you to choose from and brought out my best teapots. Which one...
Jul 14, 2016 | Cozies, Guest Authors
Cynthia Kuhn’s Semester of our Discontent Cynthia Kuhn strolled by, and we had a lovely chat about revisions, revising, and revising revisions. How many times do you revise your story? The Semester of Our Discontent Cynthia Kuhn Cozy Mystery 1st in Series...
May 3, 2016 | Cozies, Reviews
Hearing Voices in a Scottish Bookshop Doesn’t everyone? I enjoyed book one of this Scottish Bookshop Mystery so much that I will plead and hang out in front of the author’s house until book two comes out. In this new series, Delaney Nichols is laid off from her...
Feb 22, 2016 | Cozies, Guest Authors
Plotting Counterfeit Conspiracies Counterfeit Conspiracies by Ritter Ames Genre: Mystery, Suspense I am so thrilled to have Ritter Ames visit and talk about her writing process. Is she a plotter? A get-it-all-down-then-worry-later kind of writer? Read on then comment...
