I write cozy historical mystery fiction and cozy fantasy mystery fiction. “Novel Basics,” my book on writing fiction, is available now.
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Starting a New Year . . . Somehow, I’ve managed to start the new year by catching a cold. Apparently, this happened when I went to my doctor for a well woman check-up about a week ago. Of course, I…
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December 2021 Newsletter
The Old and the New Out with the old and in with the new isn’t working so well for me this year. For example, at a time when some of my friends send virtual Christmas cards, this year I decided…
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November 2021 Newletter
Cat Chores and More Like my daughter and I, our black Bombay cat named Safa has his chores around the house. (We first named him Satyavan and his sister Savitri from the Hindu story about a couple similar to the…
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October 2021 Newsletter
A Bad Case of the Ya-Gottas “Ya gotta,” says the voice in my head. “Ya gotta get a COVID booster shot.” “Ya gotta work on your website; it’s a mess.” “Ya gotta trim the hedges before the weather gets bad.”…
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Busier than a button on the . . .
Hi, Everyone! As my dear old darling dad used to say, it’s been busier than a button on a back house door at the Kincaid house this past month. Whew! For instance, the ceiling in the front bathroom of our…
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August 2021 Newsletter
My Once and Future Novel (Part 2, I think) Hi, All! A few nights ago, I thought about retiring on my birthday coming up really soon on 9/11/2021. I’ll be eighty, and maybe it’s time to stop. I told myself…
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Postcard Anyone?
As you can probably tell from the photo, my trials making postcards to promote my publications often include plenty of errors . . . And now that the touch pad on our multi-purpose printer no longer works, we need a…
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June 2021 Newsletter
I have become the old woman that . . . I have become the old woman that, wearing pajamas, robe, and flip-flops, totters to the curb on trash day to put one last plastic bottle in the recycle bin. Or…
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May 2021 WiP Report
Hi, Everybody! The first photo was me as Covid-19 Alien Juliet about a year ago. But thanks to receiving both my shots and the lifting of the mask mandate, lately I’ve been able to do some things for the first…
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April 2021 WiP Report
I hoped to report that I’ve finished my current Work-in-Progress, Apart in April, Book 5 of my Calendar Mystery series. But it’s not happening, partly because my characters keep talking to me as I write. One of them will say,…