A Study in Settings

How do you choose a particular town for a cozy mystery setting? That’s a question many authors get from readers. For me, the answer is easy. I need to have more than a casual acquaintance with a location to use it for a book setting. In Murder at Last Chance Cove, Saffi Graywood finds a…

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…