I am counting down the days until Murder at Last Chance Cove pubs on August 6! Five to go… Order on the day and help Saffi find her audience!
Category: Mystery
The Eyes of Sauron?
Storms over Santa Fe, New Mexico are other worldly. We’re boondocking in our RV in the parking lot of the Tesuque Pueblo Casino. The orange squares you see actually opened up in the cloud wall to show the fiery sunset behind the storm. The mouth shaped cloud below the eyes also occurred naturally. You can…
On the Road in New Mexico
Aunt Saffi is on a roadtrip to Santa Fe, New Mexico. What have I learned so far? 1. No sane person RVs through California’s Central Valley or the Mojave desert in July. 2. Dante’s Inferno is actually located in Lost Hills, CA. Sulfurous water. Blazing temps. But the KOA camp is fine and there are…
Raven About Series Authors
I devour series books from authors whose work I love as if they were truffles that might melt in a heatwave—like those many of us have been experiencing this summer. As I gobble up the goodness, I don’t really think about the hours and days and months and, sometimes, years that the author spent on…
Cozy Cover Reveal!
At long last, the cover of the first book in my Pacific Northwest Cozy Mystery series has been uncovered. Wow! This really evokes the setting for MURDER AT LAST CHANCE COVE. I started writing this series while staying in the real version of the fictional RV park in this book. Those of you who know…
Writing Totems
A few years ago, I worked one day a week at an amazing children’s bookstore in Ashland, Oregon—Treehouse Books. Jane, the owner, inspired me by populating the store with items that I’m sure represented the magical/mystical spirits that bless her life: fairies, gnomes, ravens, owls, trees, even the occasional piggie evocative of my own Rufus….
Cozies & Kim Griswell 