I spent so many years in the children’s publishing world, I was certain I had found my niche. I wasn’t wrong. For decades, children’s publishing was the right place for me. I loved the books, the people, the conferences, the editing, teaching workshops… all of it. And then, that world shifted away from me and…
Category: Murder at Last Chance Cove
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…
Cozies & Kim Griswell 