#SneakPeek: Mr Mottley & the Plushbottom Conundrum – Old Friends
As you may recall, Mottley’s longstanding friendship with Chief Inspector Forthright reached a breaking point in Mr Mottley Gets His Man:...
Cheers! Mottley’s Favorite Cocktail Recipe, the Gimblet
Pull up a beach chair and join me at Island Confidential for today’s stop on our blog tour. My fellow...
Escape with me on a Cozy Mystery Tour!
Tweeeet! En voiture, mesdames et messieurs! Today we depart on a tour of cozy mystery blogs, under the gracious auspices...
#StoryInspiration: A Dream of Darkness
When readers ask where I get my story ideas, I feel compelled to tell them the truth (mostly). So I...
#Story Inspiration: Legendary Lundy Island
As we run up to the Halloween release of Dying Fall, I want to share some of my inspiration for...
Author Inspiration: Ngaio Marsh
Contemporary cozy author Rachael Rawlings recently asked me to contribute to a profile post, along with several other women writers....
The Power of Place in the Fictive Dream
Mottley & Baker’s second adventure, Mister Mottley and the Dying Fall is set in October of 1932, six months after...
How to Survive Writing a Book.
It’s simple, they told me. Writing a book is like any other goal – consistent effort over time. Crap. I’m...
In which I run off at the mouth (so what else is new?)
I’ve been given opportunities to yak about myself a lot the last couple of weeks, so let’s keep this short. First,...
Share Grace
It took two years to clean out my mother’s house. Stacks and stacks of boxes – closets and attics full....
