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Tag: Cozy Mystery

It’s Truck Day! So How About a Sample Chapter of Backyards Have Bodies?

Posted on February 3, 2020 by admin

It’s Red Sox Truck Day, the day when the truck carrying the team’s equipment leaves for Florida.  (Yes, we celebrate these sorts of things in Massachusetts.)  Anyway, in honor of the day, I’m posting chapter 1 of the long awaited Backyards Have Bodies.  Our favorite sports fan, Rob Carmichael’s having his own Truck Day celebration….

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TBT: Peyton Place – The original Suburbs Have Secrets

Posted on September 27, 2017September 27, 2017 by admin

“Fifty years ago, Peyton Place helped create the contemporary notion of “buzz,” indicted 1950s morality, and recast the concept of the soap opera, all in one big, purple-prosed book. It would spawn a sequel, a smash film nominated for nine Academy Awards, and television’s first prime-time serial. A week before it hit bookstores, on September…

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Ecosystems

Posted on September 19, 2017 by admin

Last night, Penny Watson and I had a long talk about cultivating our personal ecosystems — a term I stole from author Susan K. Quinn. We decided we liked the word far better than community, partly because Penny is a gardener, but mostly because there is a very subtle but important difference between the two….

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Letting Go

Posted on August 30, 2017August 31, 2017 by admin

The words hit me like a slap in the face. My son looked me square in the eye and said, “Please stop sending suggestions. We want to do this ourselves.” He was talking about his and his fiancee’s upcoming move to Vermont, and he was right. When Tattoo first announced he was moving, my husband and…

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When Fear Holds You Back

Posted on July 6, 2017July 6, 2017 by admin

Forget everything I said last week about life getting in the way of my writing.  This week, I figured out why I’m really having so much trouble finishing the rewrites on The Suburbs Have Secrets. It’s fear. For nearly a decade, my books were insulated by a publisher’s seal of approval. No matter what the…

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How about a Sadie Snippet?

Posted on June 27, 2017June 27, 2017 by admin

It’s a cloudy Tuesday here. To brighten things up, I thought I’d post the opening paragraphs from The Suburbs Have Secrets, the first book in the Sadie McIntyre Mystery Series. Look for the book this October. Enjoy! Chapter 1 Everyone has secrets. Take, for example, the good folk of Woodbridge, Massachusetts, population 7,256. Like many…

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When Life and Goals Collide

Posted on June 20, 2017June 20, 2017 by admin

This is the white board in the office I share with the Captain outlining my to-do list for the summer. I’m behind. I had such plans for the year. If you read my last blog, you know my ambition has returned post empty nest. 2017 was going to be the year I took control of…

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