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Cozy cohort, there’s still time to grab your free chance to win a bunch of great cozy mysteries. Click here and see what one lucky entry will win!

From there, you’ll get email updates from myself and other cozy authors, letting you know what we’re up to with delivering your next (hopefully) favorite book.

Edits are underway on A Tisket A Tasket A Biscuit A Casket, Margot Parish’s first full-length cozy mystery novel. I’m excited to tell you the lion’s share of work is really digging deep on the characters– not just Margot, but the suspects and old ‘friends’ she finds in Fletcher’s Crossing.

I think a good whodunit can only be improved by working harder to develop the characters into full-fledged people. The more realistic and flawed they are, the easier it’ll be to connect with them as a reader. That’s my hope.

I’m also working on polishing up our next baking recipes! Nothing soothes this dandy of a writer like puttering around the kitchen, bringing sweet things into the world. (Don’t be surprised by holiday cookies, it’s all I’m saying.)

It means a lot that you’d want to hear more from me. I’m just glad you can get something back as well. Sign up and look forward to grand things!

Changes, Big & Small

I’m delighted to announce that my fiancée and I have tied the knot! We’re hitched! After deliberating back and forth on the scale for our nuptials, we agreed to keep it small as humanly possible. (Health being the primary concern.) I’ve no idea what to expect from married life, but if it’s anything like what we’ve been thru already– minus the stress of wedding planning– then we’ve got this.

In completely unrelated news, I’ve started work on a Cozy Mystery, my first. I’ve always loved the genre– lord knows I’ve absorbed enough of it– but this is my first foray into the creation of one. It started as a short story idea, some 6,000 words, and may stay that size. It may not. Time will tell.

One thing I’ve finally managed to learn is not worry about the first draft. In the past, I might have dithered back and forth on making sure every word is perfect in this draft, and it’s an obstacle I just don’t have time to indulge. I finished the first draft of a tween mystery manuscript just as October began, and work on it has consumed most of my non-wedding thoughts for the whole summer.

What got me over some stumbling blocks was the fact that it didn’t need to be perfect, it just needed to be. It’s a first draft.

This side it still just getting started, but I’m excited to see where it goes, how it grows. More to follow.

Allons-y!

Here we go. After far too long away, I’m finally resuming the work of getting my own site up on its feet. Hoo boy. 

There are stories I want to tell, old gems I want to polish up, and an audience I want to connect with: namely, you. If you like mysteries, a good scare, and a few pleasant surprises, then this is the place for you. 

If you want to be good, first you have to be brave. Getting this site just right will take time, but at least it exists, which is more than I could say for it yesterday. 

Onwards and upwards. More to follow.