The Stiletto Gang wecomes guest Gretchen Archer! By: Gretchen Archer Words play a huge role in my life. Word count. Word documents. Eating my words. So, as I gratefully thank my first blog hostesses, the fabulous Stiletto Gang, for having me, I’d like to share a few words I’ve learned as I’ve traveled the exhausting […]
By Laura Spinella Imagine if Dickens had penned Otto instead of Oliver, or Jane Austen found herself smitten with Doolittle before Darcy ever crossed her mind. Would these grand works of literature have been influenced by something as basic as a name? Fast forward to modern times and it’s clear that name choice is no […]
By Bethany Maines The good news: I have a new short story coming out on Tax Day! Yes, that is an infamously black day, but I thought I’d give people something to look forward to. The bad news: I’m having serious second thoughts about the story title. Up until now it’s been known rather blandly […]
By: Joelle Charbonneau I’m sick. For those that follow my twitter feed or are Facebook friends for me, I doubt this comes as a newsflash. In the last three months, I have managed to come down with a sinus infection, bronchitis, pneumonia and pleurisy. (Who gets pleurisy???) I’m now on my third course of antibiotics […]
It’s been a long time coming but if you listen carefully you can hear the sounds of an Irish wolfhound running towards you. Whiskey is back! We’re celebrating the upcoming publication of our third book in the Sullivan Investigations Mystery series, MURDER DOUBLES BACK with excerpts from the first book – MURDER […]
By Laura Bradford Been feeling just a little off the last few days. The first day I managed to work around it. The second, proved to be a little harder but I still managed to make a go of my day. Yesterday, not so much. And today? Well, the verdict is still out. Now here’s the […]
A friend in the know—a book critic herself—once told me that Philip Roth, author of GOODBYE, COLUMBUS and PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT, to name two, never read reviews of any his books. This was early on in my career and in a time when I devoured anything that was written about me or my debut mystery, MURDER […]
Our granddaughter, Jessi, her hubby Jerry, and their baby girl Aleena came to visit for a week. (Our pear tree is blooming in the background.) Jessi lived with me and her grandpa off and one for most of her growing up years and for a short while after she and Jerry married. Then they moved […]
My co-author and I like our mysteries with a side of humor and a small scoop of romance. In honor of April Fools Day we thought we’d share three favorite scenes from our psychic Brianna Sullivan Mysteries series: from I TRY NOT TO DRIVE PAST CEMETERIES – Detective Jackson didn’t introduce himself. I guess he […]
By Laura Bradford I’m in a hotel outside Franklin, NC today as part of a little mini book tour for my latest release, ASSAULTED PRETZEL. I’ll spend the better part of the afternoon at Dalton’s Christian Bookstore before driving five hours to get to Nashville, TN for a signing at Mysteries & More tomorrow afternoon. […]