By Lois Winston Since my December Stiletto Gang post falls on Christmas Eve, I’m wondering if anyone will even read what I’ve written. For that reason, I’ll keep this post short for the few of you who might take a break between cooking and wrapping gifts to grab a cup of coffee or hot chocolate […]
By Lois Winston Embroidered Lies and Alibis, Book 15 in my Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery Series, is currently available for preorder. Wow, right? Back in the early years of this century, when I was first asked to write a crafting-themed amateur sleuth series, I never could have envisioned that twenty years later, I’d still be […]
Today, we welcome bestselling and award-winning guest author Patricia Crisafulli. Her Ohnita Harbor Mystery Series launched in 2022 with The Secrets of Ohnita Harbor, followed in 2023 by The Secrets of Still Waters Chasm. Her latest in the series, The Secrets of the Old Post Cemetery, released last month. Find her at www.FaithHopeandFiction.com. The Traitor’s […]
Guest post by CB Wilson As the author of a long-running cozy dog mystery series, I’ve learned to keep my radar tuned for anything canine. I devour dog-related articles—not because I plan to use every tidbit, but because I know that one day, something will leap off the page and knock my socks off. Sure […]
By Lois Winston What’s better than a cozy holiday whodunnit? A cozy holiday whodunit sale! Are you someone who curates your reading for each holiday? Holiday whodunnits are always a treat to pick up, especially this time of year. Not only do readers love holiday-themed cozies, but many of us also love writing them. Some […]
A Guest Post by Author M.E. Proctor Ten years ago, when the character of Declan Shaw, a Houston PI, popped into my head, I didn’t give a second thought to the fact that I’d just committed myself to write, from a male perspective, what could become a series. It didn’t bother me. I wanted to […]
By Lois Winston Have you ever read a cozy mystery novel and thought, “No way would that ever happen in real life!”? I know that many readers will think exactly that when they read about the idiosyncratic behavior of Barry Sumner, a character in Seams Like the Perfect Crime, my fourteenth and latest Anastasia Pollack […]
By Lois Winston I’m exhausted! But I’m not complaining. Just stating a fact. The last month has been a good exhaustion filled with family, writers, and accolades. First, at the end of July, my husband and I took our soon-to-be nine and eleven-year-old grandsons to Cumberland Falls State Park in Kentucky for four days. The […]
A Day in the Life of Cozy Mystery Author Lois Winston By Lois Winston Did you ever have one of those days where you look back and wonder what you accomplished between starting your day and ending it? You check your word count for the day and ask yourself how you could have accomplished so […]
The times they are a-changin’. In all aspects of our lives. Maybe the challenges of cozy mystery marketing, or any book marketing, never rank high on most people’s minds—unless you’re an author struggling with ever-increasing expenses and ever-shrinking book sales. For those of us in that boat, it’s a serious personal and financial problem. Publishing […]