Last night, the sky was clear and the temperature took a plunge downward. What does a cozy mystery writer or a cozy mystery reader do on a night like this? Read, of course, or write! In this slice of Moonlight Can Be Murder, Ned takes a wild, icy ride which nearly ends in disaster. A […]
Jan 9, 2016
A Shadow in the Night
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The weather is wet, cold, and forecast to get snowy and colder. It is, of course, perfect weather to go to Levi, Oklahoma and see what Darcy and Flora are doing in their current mystery, Grave Heritage. As usual, Darcy is setting out to find a bad guy but this time, she goes alone, in the dead of […]
Jan 3, 2016
Out of My Dreams Onto the Page
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When Inspiration hits my friend Jane, it pops her eyes open, prods her out of bed, and leads her straight to pen and paper. I think that may be rubbing off on me. Actually, though, I was already awake this morning, lying in bed wondering if it was “gettin’ up time.” I thought about my work-in-progress, Grave […]
Jan 1, 2016
A New Beginning
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Every morn is a fresh beginning; every day is the world made new. You who are weary of sorrow and sinning, here is a wonderful hope for you, a hope for me and a hope for you. — Author Unknown I’m not much for making New Year’s Resolutions. Once upon a time, it was fun […]
Dec 29, 2015
My Bag of Tricks
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I want to thank my subscriber who asked what was in my writer’s bag of tricks. I wasn’t sure, myself, what was in there, so I took a look. Mostly what I found was a very active, often obstreperous imagination, but also, in that bag was the small phrase, “What if?” A current event, a past […]
Dec 22, 2015
A Character for the Season
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Darcy waxes philosophical: Sometimes society as a whole looks with suspicion on people who are different. This is unfair and undeserved, but we are an imperfect species. Jasper moved in a realm of woods and animals. He was friends with the owls. Civilized society is locked into a set of established rules. Surely, if someone likes God’s great out-of-doors […]
