Buried in a Good Book by Tamara Berry

May 23, 2022

While Tamara Berry’s first By the Book mystery, Buried in a Good Book, has a few more body parts than many cozies, it still fits that category. And, thriller writer Tess Harrow, with the multiple guesses as to a killer, is not quite as adept as her...

Friends & Fiction

June 13, 2020

I want to share a Facebook site with you. It’s called Friends & Fiction. Five authors, Mary Kay Andrews, Mary Alice Monroe, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey and Patti Callahan Henry are the five bestselling authors who put together the site. They also...

Private Investigations edited by Victoria Zackheim

May 10, 2020

Yesterday, author Art Taylor wrote a guest post talking about writing what one knows, or what one researches. Victoria Zackheim edited a collection called Private Investigations, the perfect follow-up to Taylor’s post. It’s subtitled “Mystery...

5 Tips for Authors During Covid-19

April 21, 2020

I would never presume to give tips to authors. But, PR by the Book’s Author to Influencer Accelerator designed this list for World Book Day, which is Thursday, April 23 (Shakespeare & Cervantes both died that day). However, my blog is booked...

Thin Ice by Paige Shelton

December 03, 2019

Even if you’re a cozy mystery who loves Paige Shelton’s books, you might want to give Thin Ice a try. It’s a thriller for all of us who don’t want to be terrorized. While the ordeal is over, the terror and past still lingers for Beth Rivers. I...