By Judy Penz Sheluk For those of you unfamiliar, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. It began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel during the thirty days of November. This year, I’m committed to working on the final book in my Glass Dolphin Mystery series […]
Judy Penz Sheluk I’m lucky in that my husband and I own a camp on Lake Superior, near Sault Ste. Marie (pronounced Soo), Ontario. The US (Michigan) side is known as the Upper Peninsula (known as the UP). Now the downside is it’s a long way from where we live (about 8 hours by car) […]
Judy Penz Sheluk here, except, well…I’m not really here, I’m at our camp on Lake Superior in Northern Ontario, hopefully enjoying a hot, sunny Canada Day. And because I wasn’t sure if I could check in, I’ve invited my friend Vicki Batman to guest blog for me. Of course, like all best laid plans, Vicki’s […]
Judy Penz Sheluk I’m beyond excited to announce that the The Best Laid Plans: 21 Stories of Mystery & Suspense is now available for pre-order on Kindle and in trade paperback at all the usual suspects. This is the first multi-author anthology to be published by my imprint, Superior Shores Press. The original call for […]
Judy Penz Sheluk here: I’m beyond excited to announce the release of the audiobook version of Past & Present, Book 2 in my Marketville Mystery series and the sequel to Skeletons in the Attic. To celebrate, I’ve got 1 free download code for US/Canada Audible members and 1 free download code for UK Audible members for […]
By Judy Penz Sheluk People often ask me where I get my ideas and I always tell them “from life.” That may sound trite, but it’s true. And while every author, and every book, follows a different path, I will tell you this secret: It all starts with a premise. Here’s another secret: there’s no […]
Congratulations to Dianne Casey! You’ve won the Clicking Our Heels prize of two books by Linda Rodriguez: Every Last Secret and Dark Sister. Please DM your mailing address through the Stiletto Gang Facebook page and we’ll send the books to you ASAP! Judy Penz Sheluk Let me start by saying I’m a terrible cook. I […]
Judy Penz Sheluk I’ll admit it. I love those impossibly cheesy holiday movies, the cheesier the better. In fact, I have a Holiday Movie Rating System (HMRS) that goes something like this (maximum 55 points): Paper-thin plot or wildly implausible plot: 5 points Female lead is either widowed, divorced, recently broken up with fiancé or can’t seem to […]
Judy Penz Sheluk My mother was raised in a time when you didn’t waste anything: scraps of fabric left over from sewing or hemming a pair of pants, odd buttons and pieces of lace or ribbon, these went to making clothes for my Barbie (actually I had a Midge, never have been a conformist, but […]
Judy Penz Sheluk I spent the better part of my teen and early-mid twenties reading everything Agatha Christie wrote (including the six books written under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott. Recently, after the rather 2017 dismal remake of Murder on the Orient Express—sorry, Kevin Branagh, you are not a convincing Poirot (though perhaps no one […]