USA Today bestselling and award-winning author Lois Winston writes mystery, romance, romantic suspense, chick-lit, women’s fiction, children’s chapter books, and nonfiction under her own name and her Emma Carlyle pen name. Lois is a former literary agent and an award-winning craft and needlework designer who often draws much of her source material for both her characters and … [Read more...] about Behind the story of Handmade Ho-Ho Homicide by Lois Winston
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Behind the story of Read and Buried by Eva Gates
Eva Gates is the pen name of Vicki Delany, one of Canada’s most prolific and varied crime writers. A national bestseller in the U.S., she writes four cozy mystery series: the Tea By The Sea mysteries for Kensington, the Year Round Christmas mysteries for Penguin Random House, the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series and, as Eva Gates, the Lighthouse Library books for Crooked … [Read more...] about Behind the story of Read and Buried by Eva Gates
Behind the story of Galliano Gold by Traci Andrighetti
Traci Andrighetti is the USA Today bestselling author of the Franki Amato Mysteries and the Danger Cove Hair Salon Mysteries. She’s been an award-winning literary translator and a Lecturer of Italian at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics. As she puts it, she then "got wise and ditched that academic stuff" for a life of crime … [Read more...] about Behind the story of Galliano Gold by Traci Andrighetti
Behind the story of Two Bites Too Many by Debra H. Goldstein
Debra H. Goldstein has been an attorney, a judge, and is now an award-winning author. In addition to her Anthony and Agatha award nominations for her short stories, Debra now writes the Sarah Blair Mysteries. This is the story behind her latest in that series, Two Bites Too Many. The beginnings of Two Bites Too Many When her first two books were orphaned, Debra said … [Read more...] about Behind the story of Two Bites Too Many by Debra H. Goldstein
Behind the story of When It’s Time for Leaving
Ang Pompano has taught, and is now writing, detective fiction. His mystery novel is titled, When It’s Time For Leaving. Here is the story behind the story. The genesis of When It’s Time for Leaving :I wanted to explore what happens when a person’s plans are changed by some outside force, a.k.a Life,” said And. "I thought it would be interesting if Big Al turned his … [Read more...] about Behind the story of When It’s Time for Leaving