On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle: cozy mystery for romance lovers #minibookreview

I’m rediscovering cozy murder mysteries these days (because, Murder & Mayhem) and this is one of last month’s finds: On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle (Coffeehouse Mystery No.1) (Berkley, 2003) Mini-book review: A cozy murder mystery that will please romance

My next read: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

This is going to be my next read! MIRACLE CREEK by Angie Kim, introduced me to at the Murder & Mayhem conference. BLURB: The “gripping… page-turner” (Time) hitting all the best of summer reading lists, Miracle Creek is perfect for book clubs

And now, something completely different: Murder and Mayhem, or, learning while in bed during the apocalypse

Murder & Mayhem is an annual Chicago conference featuring Chicago’s top mystery writers. The 2020 conference was, obviously, cancelled—and the organizers moved at lightening speed to put it all online. So I spent my Saturday in a slightly elevated position

Community, synchronicity, gratitude and all the good things: from When Words Collide to Writing Better Fiction to finding your people

The Ninth Chapter of WHEN WORDS COLLIDE is now over, and around Western Canada, the Northwestern United States, and some pockets in the Midwest and East, 800 exhausted readers and writers are processing and composing their notes of gratitude. My