I opened my wormy can in a Facebook group by asking some cozy mystery readers which tropes they hated. It was a tad disingenuous on
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Excerpted from 8 Weeks to a Complete Novel—How To Write Faster, Write Better, Be More Organized I feel my clock ticking. I came late to
I’m not really a gardener. My husband is, though. He takes delight in nurturing seeds and seedlings until they turn into salad ingredients. He weeds
I’ve been wiggly with anticipation to celebrate National Split Pea Soup Week and now … it’s FINALLY here. It kicks off today and lasts until
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***SPOILER ALERT*** If you want to do the Fictional Female Sleuths puzzle before I talk about how I constructed it, stop right now and go
Have you ever heard someone say, “I’m so OCD” when they do something perfectly reasonable like fold their towels a particular way (in my case,
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When I pitched a new cozy series to my agent, I had to make some decisions about my main character’s occupation. In BANANA BAMBOOZLE and