We’re thrilled to have Mary Higgins Clark, Agatha, Lefty and Anthony award nominated writer Nadine Nettmann with us today to celebrate the release of Pairing a Deception, the third book in her Sommelier Mystery series. It’s out May 8, but you can preorder your copy now! Continue reading “Guest Interview: Nadine Nettmann”
Right at this very moment, the random files sitting on my computer are a near-perfect representation of the things that have been going on in my life for the last month: active projects, miscellaneous pictures, screenshots of things that amused me, a mai tai recipe…. It’s like my own personal time capsule of April, 2018. So if you were to peek at my desktop, what … Continue reading A writer’s laptop junk drawer
We all have those fears we know don’t really make sense but haunt us anyway. Here are ours…
Continue reading “Our Most Irrational Fears”
As you read this, I am (hopefully) chugging along on the Acela Express from Boston to New York City, where my daughter is getting married on Friday. Please forgive me that I am re-sharing a post from a while back because, well…I’m a wee bit stressed and running behind schedule. But really, the cautionary tale of poor old Charlie, who rides the train forever through the streets of Boston, bears repeating… Continue reading Writer on the Stress Express
Get to know the Chicks better with another round of Friday Fun Facts — a cornucopia of fun but useless information that we felt compelled to share. Find out what we’re reading, eating, regretting, or looking forward to, then share some fun facts of your own in the comments below!
The Chicks: Thanks for paying us a visit, Seven Sinister Sisters! The Seven Sinister Sisters: Thanks so much to Ellen Byron for inviting us, and to all the terrific Chicks on the Case for hosting the Seven Sinister Sisters on our grand blog tour! We are seven mystery authors, all members of Sisters in Crime, with new books launching this spring. Our question for today: … Continue reading Welcome, Seven Sinister Sisters
We put some interesting questions to this year’s nominees for the Agatha Best Contemporary Novel award. Here are their answers, plus a special mini-interview with nominee and legendary mystery author, Margaret Maron… QUESTION: What would you do differently if you were starting out as a writer again? LOUISE PENNY: I think I’d enjoy it more. I’d spent decades dreaming of what it would be … Continue reading Agatha Best Contemporary Novel Nominees: We Asked, They Answered
In my new release, TIL DEATH DO US PARTY (the one with the pink cover), Liv and Di are in Las Vegas for Mama and Earl’s wedding and have to find the killer of an Elvis impersonator to get an aspiring Elvis impersonator, Liv’s cousin, off the hook for the murder. Meanwhile back in Dixie, Liv’s assistant is wrangling plus-size Elvis costumes for a problem-plagued Elvis-themed … Continue reading Me and Elvis
Ever wonder about the story behind some of your favorite book bloggers’ websites? Well, wonder no more because each month we’re featuring an interview with a well-known blogger. For April, we have Kristopher Zgorski of BOLO Books, who will receive the prestigious Raven Award from Mystery Writers of America at their Edgar Awards later this month.
Continue reading “Guest Book Blogger: Kristopher Zgorski of BOLO Books”
Presenting the Chick’s favorite TV shows which are no longer on the air but still have a place in our hearts… Continue reading “Still Missing You: TV Shows”
Authors always love it when readers tell us how realistic they find our characters to be. But at the same time, we’re well aware that they are, in fact, fictional. Or are we? Something that happened a while back makes me wonder about that. A mere two-dimensional figure My sister, Laura, and I were at the beach in Santa Cruz, California—the same beach featured in … Continue reading Kill your darlings? Yikes!
Occasionally, for fun, I like to browse the real estate listings in cities I’ve thought about moving to. Move back to Austin? See if I can take the rain in Portland? Try out a small town like Auburn in Northern California? That’s how I stumbled across my future mansion. I don’t throw around the words “my future mansion” lightly. I’m not really “mansion people.” Give … Continue reading My haunted mansion/ B&B / writers’ retreat / wedding venue
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