A surprise: Although I don’t know how long the special price for this ebook will last, The Cemetery Club is on sale at Amazon for 99 cents. Here is an excerpt from that first Darcy and Flora cozy mystery: Flopping onto my stomach, I squeezed, head first, down the first two stone steps. I heard my […]

Righting a Wrong
That’s what cozy mysteries are about…righting a wrong. And cozy mystery writers? Well, we write about it. And, the best part is, we not only write the wrong; we write the right. We make sure the perpetrator of mayhem is brought to justice and everything comes round right in the end. As a visitor to […]

Calling All Cozy Critters
It’s that special time of the month again–time for the cozy critique. We’ll miss Judy but even when she moves to Texas, she’ll still be a Cozy Critter, a Lone Star Critter. She has promised to email me of what’s going on in her life. Once a Critter, always a Critter, even though we have to […]

The Full Moon and Gregg Shorthand
There it was, sailing high above the maple in the back yard, white and full and serene. The Snow Moon, or Hunger Moon, shone down in all its brilliance. I, of course, thought of how mysterious it looked. Our scientists have pretty much proved it isn’t made of green cheese. It’s rocky and dusty and […]
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 […]

Jethro’s Tale
Jethro is the little stray cat who made his first appearance in Grave Shift. You might like to know how he came to belong to Darcy Campbell and her mother, Flora Tucker. Jethro’s Story Finally! At long last, I get to tell my story. I have been looking through the books a certain cozy mystery […]

