This is what it feels like to turn in your finished manuscript on deadline. The morning after turning in a manuscript looks like this You get up, get dressed, look around the house (in my case, the RV) and think… what on earth am I supposed to do with my day? The good news? With…
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From Children’s Books to Cozy Mystery Series
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…
Spring Mysteries
Here in Ashland, Oregon, spring is in the air. What little snow we had this year has given way a carpet of pink blossoms. The turkeys are hot to trot (here, there, and everywhere including in the middle of the road). In Lithia Park, kids are selling sun tea in Dixie cups for $5 a…
Shout out for Silenced…
… at the Book Show. Yes! At last, the third book in my Pacific Northwest Cozy Mystery series is here. Silenced at the Book show takes bestselling author and amateur sleuth Saffi Graywood to Seaside, Oregon, where she is scheduled to offer the keynote speech at a booksellers’ conference. If that’s not stressful enough, she…
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…
The Cat in the Firelight
If you’ve seen the cover of Death in the Haunted Wood, you may have noticed the cat. I know a lot of cozy readers want pets to show up in every book. I want the pets in my books (and cozies I read) to be there for a reason beyond just hanging around and looking…
Cover Time!
I LOVE the cover of Death in the Haunted Wood and couldn’t wait to share it with you. Well, okay, I did have to wait, at least… until my publisher got to show it off first. The wait is over, and I hope you love this cover as much as I do. What do I…
A Matter of Taste
I’m thinking about book reviews right now as the first books in my cozy mystery series publish. Reviews are coming in for Murder in Last Chance Cove and most have enough stars to make me grin. I love finding consensus on what readers who’ve taken time to write reviews think I’ve done well. I learn…
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…
Cozies & Kim Griswell 