I had the oddest dream last night. Sometimes my daily activities invade my dreams. Or at least, mine did last night. In my dream, I was teaching a class of writers. This was their assignment: write a scene using conversation between two people or among more than two people to move the action along. Dialogue! Quotation marks! Actual words of speakers! How […]
Oct 20, 2015
Monsters Attack
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Never mind that they are minute. Size doesn’t matter. They are mean. They are yucky. They are decidedly an unwelcome, biting nuisance. Oak tree mites have descended on NWA and also Oklahoma. http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepagelatest/yikes-oak-tree-mites-bring-chigger-like-bite-outbreak-from/article_23003330-d5bf-5399-9e60-8ceeed670b5b.html The first inkling I had of their unwelcome presence was seeing them on my bird baths in the back yard. Small, white […]
Oct 15, 2015
Coffee, Cookies, Critique, Friends
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When friends get together with coffee and cookies, it’s a fun time. Throw in a rousing critique, mix with a lot of laughter, and you have a recipe for a very good day. We Cozy Critters have met when snow lay on the ground, when we had to dodge raindrops, when the wind was so strong it blew over Peg’s […]
Oct 12, 2015
Ducks and Eggs and Minnesota
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I asked my niece Michelle Albrecht to write about her and little brother Steven’s adventures on a Minnesota lake when they were children. Her method of gathering duck eggs was unique and while not many of us were privileged to view and retrieve eggs several feet down in the cold, cold, clear water, it was undoubtedly […]
Oct 9, 2015
Mysterious Cozy Cats
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“What do you think, Penny?” I asked. She sprang to her feet and arched her back, her fur standing up like an animated bristle cone. She stared at the window then whirled and dashed upstairs. “Well, my goodness, it was just a question,” I called after her. She was clearly frightened. Could […]
Oct 7, 2015
An Open and Shut Case
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To the authors who read my blog: As you write your new book, do you find that you have some chapters you prefer to other chapters? To the readers who read my blog: As you read a cozy mystery, are there chapters that stand out to you? And then, of course, there are favorite parts within each chapter. […]
