Titillating First Lines to Tease Your Curiosity

BREAKING NEWS: Grave Shift is now available in audio format. Wonderful! I’ve waited for the day I could make this announcement and now it’s here. I can’t wait for you to hear the narrator. She sounds like Darcy to me. You can listen to a free sample at Amazon and I hope you do. And then […]

I Can’t Help It–I’m Cold!

“It’s a really nice day,” they said. “It’s quite warm except for the wind,” they said. I didn’t believe it! Yesterday was cold! The wind was from the north, whipping across the plains and barreling through the trees, tossing whitecaps on the lakes. Even my newly-opened yellow crocus thought it was cold. I know how they […]

With a Shiver Down My Spine

With a Shiver Down My Spine

Remember that yesterday’s Valentine will last all week–until Friday. Just tell me which of my four cozy mysteries, The Cemetery Club, Grave Shift, Best Left Buried, or Moonlight Can Be Murder, you liked best and why you liked it. On Friday, I’ll randomly choose some lucky reader to receive a ten-dollar gift certificate to Amazon. Send […]

Be My Valentine

Be My Valentine

Remember how excited we’d get as children on Valentine’s Day, counting those cards, reading the verses, keeping them in boxes? What a sweet custom! It seemed to me that my kindergarteners got more excited about Valentine’s Day than about Christmas. They would decorate white paper sacks which I fastened to the chalk tray then they would […]

Once a Cozy Critter, Always a Cozy Critter

Once a Cozy Critter, Always a Cozy Critter

…even in Texas! Cozy Critter Judy is planning to move back to her home, which happens to be that great state of Texas! Yesterday’s meeting may have been her last at the old cherry wood table with the rest of us Critters. Jane wrote and framed a wonderful poem which included many of the things […]

What Makes the World Go Round?

What Makes the World Go Round?

Once in a While is a sentimental love song The Chimes recorded back in 1961. I really like that song! I like the old cars that flash by behind them. I remember those cars. I remember the time. And, you know what? I can understand the words! Nature has its own music in the wind, […]