Christmas on the Coast!

For the past few days here in Ashland, Oregon—where our RV snuggles beneath the green bows of a giant redwood for the winter—fog has made every morning chill, puffy white and muffled. It reminds me so much of the places Saffi Graywood visits as she sleuths her way along the Oregon coast in my Pacific…

Cozy Confession

On October 26, I took part in a Facebook takeover for the Cozy Mystery Lovers/Meg’s Cozy Corner FB group. It’s a great group and if you love cozy mysteries you might want to join. They have page takeovers by many wonderful cozy authors. It was an honor to be invited and, I must confess, a…

Publication Day: Book 2!

When I find a series I love, I can’t wait until the next book comes out. When I have to wait years for the next book I get irritated. By the time the next book pubs I’ve forgotten all about the first and have to reread it. Sometimes, the next book never shows and I…

Spooktacular Preview!

Just a few carefully chosen musical notes… that’s all it takes to conjure a haunted vibe. A few words can do the same. The next book in my Pacific Northwest Cozy Mystery series counts down to a Halloween Spooktacular at a “haunted” RV park carved out of blackberry brambles and gooseberry bushes by an aging…

Weird Wasps

A few weeks ago, a friend told me about an incident at a picnic on the Northwest Pacific coast. Just after he and his friends sat down to enjoy the hotdogs they’d grilled, unwanted guests showed up. Yellow jackets. No amount of shooing would deter the black-and-yellow buzzers and before long there were more wasps…

Fixing & Fiction

Many of the things that happen to my amateur sleuth Saffi Graywood in Murder at Last Chance Cove were inspired by things that have happened in my life. If you have read the first book in my Pacific Northwest Cozy Mystery series, you may recognize the setting and which part of the plot it relates…

Fire-Safe RV-ing

If you’ve read or are currently reading Murder at Last Chance Cove, the first mystery in my Pacific Northwest Cozy Mystery series, this photo may trigger a memory of one of the book’s more dramatic scenes. Smoke roiling upward. Flames shooting from the roof. Windows popping. A firefighter with an ax gaining entry to an…