My favorite kind of reader feedback is when someone tells me they laughed out loud at something I wrote and scared their dog/spit their soda/made fellow passengers on the subway doubt their sanity. LOLs are my love language. So I was especially heartened when Holly Adams, the awesomely talented narrator of my Mount Moriah MysteriesContinue reading “Made you LOL!”
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Thanks for nothin’, J.R.R. Tolkien – More of my interview with audiobook narrator Holly Adams
Audiobook narrator Holly Adams sat down with me recently to talk about her process for narrating fantasy and non-fiction books and the preparation that goes into each recording.
Chop n’ Bop Playlist: Girl Power Anthems for Cooking
To celebrate the publication of Six Feet Deep Dish, I was invited to write a guest post for the awesome mystery blog, Criminal Element. Read on for more on writing, music, and my uncanny similarity to Olympic gold medal swimmer Michael Phelps. Before a big race, swimmer Michael Phelps listened to a playlist to amp up hisContinue reading “Chop n’ Bop Playlist: Girl Power Anthems for Cooking”
“You never know when your pizza cat mystery will come along.”
I do not recommend trying to become a writer. In fact, I’m not even sure I know what “becoming a writer” is. When I published the first Lindsay Harding novel, did that make me a writer? Or was it the brief and shining moment when the first book climbed to the top of Amazon’s cozyContinue reading ““You never know when your pizza cat mystery will come along.””
Two thumbs up for cozy mysteries
To a kid growing up in Chicago in the 1980s, the Chicago Sun Times film critic Roger Ebert was the fount of all wisdom. His weekly Siskel and Ebert: At the Movies PBS show, with its famous Thumbs Up-Thumbs Down scoring system, was in regular rotation on lazy Saturday mornings, when my sister and IContinue reading “Two thumbs up for cozy mysteries”
How to Write a Really Terrible Mystery
On October 28th, I’ll be giving a talk at the Blacksburg, VA Public Library. “How to Write a Really Terrible Mystery (and How Not To)” will feature tips from my alter ego, Mandy Quagley. Below is a little sneak peek at the kind of colossally unhelpful advice Mandy will give to mystery readers and would-be mysteryContinue reading “How to Write a Really Terrible Mystery”
Clean Indie Reads Interview
I had the pleasure of being interviewed today on the Clean Indie Reads blog, home of “Flinch-Free Fiction.” So what exactly is flinch-free fiction? While flinch-free books aren’t squeaky-clean Disney-Princess pure in every imaginable way, they are “clean” in the following ways: They contain no erotica or sexually explicit scenes. There should be nothing that givesContinue reading “Clean Indie Reads Interview”
R.P. Dahlke dishes out advice for crafting the perfect author tweet and finding your (fictional) Mr. Right
R.P. Dahlke is the author of the bestselling Dead Red light-hearted cozy mystery series, which features model-turned-pilot Lalla Baines. Dahlke will be at BoucherCon, Long Beach, CA in November 13-16, where she’ll be giving away 40 printed copies of her marketing handbook for authors, Jump Start Your Book Promotions, to attendees of her talk on e-book promotion. Minty FreshContinue reading “R.P. Dahlke dishes out advice for crafting the perfect author tweet and finding your (fictional) Mr. Right”
“I owe my writing career to my dogs,” and other secrets of publishing success. Interview with C.A. Newsome.
C. A. (Carol Ann) Newsome writes the Lia Anderson Dog Park Mysteries, a series of funny, romantic suspense/mystery novels which are inspired by and centered around her mornings at the Mount Airy Dog Park with her trio of rescue dogs. She is also an artist with an M.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati, and you’ll seeContinue reading ““I owe my writing career to my dogs,” and other secrets of publishing success. Interview with C.A. Newsome.”
There’s no shame in writing fluff! Interview with bestselling cozy author Julie Anne Lindsey
Julie Anne Lindsay, author of the fabulous Patience Price mystery series, muses on feminism, the importance of community and why writing is fun (in a never-ending torture kind of way). She also explains why she won’t be stabbing you with a shrimp fork any time soon. Minty Fresh Mysteries (MFM): One of my favorite writers, Ann Patchett,Continue reading “There’s no shame in writing fluff! Interview with bestselling cozy author Julie Anne Lindsey”
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