Entries by Sparkle Abbey
We Heart Podcasts
by Sparkle Abbey Writers are curious. We’re interested in almost everything. We love to study people, places, and motives, and we’re always eager to learn something new. And in the deluge of digital media, we’ve discovered we really love podcasts. The beauty of a podcast is that it fits seamlessly into our day. Unlike videos […]
Special Guest – Catriona McPherson, The Bride Saw Red
by Sparkle Abbey Today we welcome a very special guest back to the blog and she’s chatting about the latest in her A Last Ditch mystery series – Scotzilla. Catriona take it away! SCOTZILLA opens at a wedding and we find Lexy Campbell, protagonist of six previous novels about the Last Ditch Motel, whom […]
Cozy Mysteries and Friendship
By Sparkle Abby How is it possible that summer is over, kids are back in school, and the snowbirds are already flocking to Florida? As the summer whizzed by, we’ve continued to faithfully work on our new series set in the fictional 55+ community, Shade Palms. We’re absolutely falling in love with our new cast […]
Researching Retirement: Starting a New Series
By Sparkle Abbey Spring is here! Trees are blooming, tornadoes are popping up throughout the country, and we’re knee-deep in the first book of our new series. Last month we shared our adventures in researching retirement communities and how we landed on our own fictional 55+ community, Shade Palms. This month we wanted to talk […]
A Good Use for a Dead Darling – Catriona McPherson
Sparkle Abbey’s guest – Catriona McPherson I was at a two-and-a-half hour Zoom meeting earlier today (the UK Society of Authors’ AGM) and in the montage of the year’s highlights there was a wee tiny clip of another Scottish writer, Damien Barr, talking about how he no longer minds cutting stuff out of his […]
Brain Storming – When It Rains It Pours…Hopefully
By Sparkle Abbey Welcome back to part three of So You Want to Write a Book! If you’ve decided there’s a book in you, thanks for joining us on this wild journey! Over the last couple of months, we’ve asked you to dig deep, think about what you really want to write about, and assigned […]