This morning, I’m not in one of my usual writing haunts: Rogue Roasting Company in Ashland, Oregon; Coffee Bach in Phoenix, OR; or Lumina, on the Ashland Plaza downtown. I’m at home in my tiny RV office. My “office” consists of the passenger’s chair, turned around to face the living area. I have a small…
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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…
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…
Merry Cover Release!
If you’re not brain-deep in publishing on a regular basis, you might not know just how little input an author has on the cover of her or his book. If you’re lucky, you get to see cover sketches. Perhaps you even get a chance to weigh in on various cover designs. For me, this was…
Seasons of Saffi
I love the way cozy mystery series take the reader from season to season. The blaze of a beachside read as I swelter beneath the sun gives way to the chill of a spooky autumn tale read beneath the snuggliest blankie. Kids dressed as spooks crunch through leaves to collect treats from grownups dressed as…
It’s Promo Time
Storm Publishing has a fantastic deal to coax you into my Pacific Northwest Cozy Mystery series. Available for a limited time. 🚐 Time for a trip to the Pacific Northwest coast! For a limited time only you can buy Murder at Last Chance Cove by Kim Griswell Mysteries for only £0.99 in the UK and…
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…
What “About Me”?
I read a lot of authors’ “About Me” pages on the Net, and I always read the author information on jacket flaps of the books I love. As a kid, I didn’t have a clue where books came from . . . that name on the front or the spine was simply a way to…
Cozies & Kim Griswell 