Month: September 2015

Happy Homicides is featured on Ereader News Today!

We are thrilled to have Ereader News Today featuring Happy Homicides: Thirteen Cozy Holiday Mysteries! Happy Homicides: Thirteen Cozy Holiday Mysteries is an anthology written by twelve cozy mystery authors, including me 🙂 The collection is available for pre-sale now, and will be available October 15. It is only $.99 (that’s right, less than one dollar), and includes […]

Writing Fiction: Murder Victims

What would a murder mystery be without a death? If it happens off the page, it’s a cozy mystery. If you see the death happen on the page, through a character’s viewpoint, it could be a thriller (like the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child). How does a writer decide who the victim will be? […]

Double Chocolate Coconut Macaroons

After making Coconut Chocolate Chip Macaroons, I started thinking about making chocolate macaroons. Everything’s better with chocolate, right? I thought about the best way to do this, so experiment one was to use cocoa powder instead of using melted chocolate. The results were tasty, and my guinea pigs were guests at a 6-year-old birthday party. […]

Writing Fiction: Developing Characters

Developing characters is a job. You create out of whole cloth, or you cannibalize traits from people you know or have seen. What else can you do, to make three-dimensional characters readers fall in love with?One method is to write a short story about them. This is not for publication, although Jennifer Crusie has published […]