by Alice Webb I liked how it began with the dismal Christmas party scene. Everyone was bored except the hostess. It made them all a suspect when the murder deed was done. Who actually did it and how? It was up to the elderly gingerbread-loving Alma to discover. JH
by Jacqueline Vick Believe me, you will understand the extra S’s in my headline, and the book title when you read this fun, mystery short story. Pet Psychic Frankie Chandler is invited to a Christmas Party in the Police headquarters of her new cop boyfriend. Feeling like a fish out of water among all…
Check out the diagram in this article – How Long to Write Famous Books Take a look at the shortest time (2.5 days for The Boy In The Striped Pajamas), and the longest time (16 years for Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings), and all those other books in between. Wow. If you are a writer…
By Dianne Ascroft, Ellen Jacobson, Sarah Biglow, Aubrey Elle, Beate Boeker, Adriana Licio, Vikki Walton, Angela K. Ryan, and Tamara Woods Mystery Follows Her A Multi-Author Cozy Mystery Collection By Dianne Ascroft, Ellen Jacobson, Sarah Biglow, Aubrey Elle, Beate Boeker, Adriana Licio, Vikki Walton, Angela K. Ryan, and Tamara Woods About Mystery Follows Her Mystery Follows Her – A Multi-Author Cozy…
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by M. Louisa Locke In the spring of 2010, just six months after I published Maids of Misfortune, the first novel in my Victorian San Francisco Mystery series, I published a short story in that series called Dandy Detects. Besides the fact that I wanted to give a…
Reviewd by Jackie Houchin Mystery Follows Her, a multi-author cozy mystery collection, provides a delightful way to discover new authors and book series with a minimum amount of time and investment. Inside this volume you will find nine short stories ranging from five to ten chapters each. At the end of the story is a…
via The 2020 Reading Challenge: 52 Books in 52 Weeks Will YOU try this? Time to start gathering books, making lists (Be sure to check your TBR pile first, you might have some in the different categories.) If you are not so enthusiastic….. I have other lists that feature a book a month (30 days),…
by Jackie Houchin Fifty years is a long time to love a woman, Abe admitted as he leaned out his window and breathed in the fresh spring air. A lot can happen in that time to cool a man’s passion and make him look for something new. But his love, although changed and matured through…
by Jacob K. (This story is based on a limerick from a class on writing I recently taught in Africa.*. Jacob combined that core idea with a vocabulary assignment for his English class. The result is hilarious. The bold words are vocabulary words from this year and/or dual/triple extensions, style techniques for “points.”) There once…
Written by Caleb J. Prologue He didn’t know how his family somehow got a hold of this thing. He didn’t know why his dad told him it was something both important and scary. Whenever he held it he felt odd, every time he tried to hold it he put it down because he hated the…
