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James Fouché lives in the Garden Route area of South Africa with his wife and their two Jack Russell terriers. While researching characters James spends a lot of his time in the fresh produce departments of local supermarkets, or frequenting coffee shops and other retail outlets, where he takes pleasure in examining housewives and businessmen [...]
January 8, 2012
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How I Got Closer To The Finish Line
Like her sleuth, Hazel Rose, Maggie King earned a B.S. in Business Administration from Rochester Institute of Technology. Also like Hazel, she grew up in New Jersey and lived in Los Angeles for many years before reversing her transcontinental move. Unlike the much-married Hazel, Maggie made one trip to the altar when she married her [...]
January 6, 2012
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Food for the Holidays
Kathleen Delaney, author of And Murder for Dessert and other books, retired from real estate to pursue writing full time. Her long time love of small towns sent her looking through the Carolina’s for a new place to settle, Gaffney. Limestone College, a delightful historic district, and a great library immediately drew her in. She [...]
January 3, 2012
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New Year’s Resolutions: Our Favorite Detectives’ Promises for Self-Improvement in 2012
Lauren Carr gave up her career of writing mysteries for television and stage to try her hand at writing novels. She wrote A Small Case of Murder while staying at home with her young son. Her first book, A Small Case of Murder, was named finalist for the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Old Love Dies [...]
December 30, 2011
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Why Did I Write A Funny Mystery?
Making the leap from reading to making up stories, Kat Jorgensen has entertained friends and family almost all of her life with the stories that play in her mind. In her left-brain life, Kat was a manager of six departments for a local life insurance company and earned the professional designation of FLMI (Fellow in [...]
December 27, 2011
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Understanding Authors
James Fouché lives in the Garden Route area of South Africa with his wife and their two Jack Russell terriers. While researching characters James spends a lot of his time in the fresh produce departments of local supermarkets, or frequenting coffee shops and other retail outlets, where he takes pleasure in examining housewives and businessmen [...]
December 23, 2011
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The Festive Spirit, Classical Style
Gary Corby writes books. He’s been fascinated by ancient history since he was a teenager.  What those guys got up to thousands of years ago was just as exciting and even more bizarre than any modern thriller, with the added fun that it really happened. He also loves the puzzles of murder mysteries and has [...]
December 20, 2011
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STARTING A NEW COZY SERIES: Targeting Your Market
Patty G. Henderson is an author, publisher and artist. An independent author, she launched her own publishing imprint, Black Car Publishing, but is now concentrating on mainly eBooks  with Savage Tiki Digi Books. She has penned four  Brenda Strange Supernatural Mysteries, The Burning of Her Sin, Tangled and Dark, The Missing Page and Ximora. Patty [...]
December 18, 2011
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The Appearance Of Character
Joseph Devon was born in New Jersey and currently lives in NewYork. He’s been a student, a nanny, worked at the Ground Zero recovery project after 9/11, and of all the things he’s created he is probably most proud of the character Kyo. He writes a blog at josephdevon.com and also enjoys photography, so he’s [...]
December 16, 2011
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In Which Charlotte The Cat Becomes A Star
Maryann Miller, author of mysteries, screenplays, and teen non-fiction,  stays active in a number of organizations including Sisters In Crime, The Trails Country Centre For The Arts in Winnsboro, Texas, and was a founding member of The Greater Dallas Writers’ Association. Maryann has been entertaining us with her stories about her feline family and [...]
December 11, 2011
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