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It's always exciting to me when I know that the release of a new book isn't far off. So I'm doubly excited right now. First of all, I got the word that the second Silver Sisters Mystery, SEVEN DEADY SAMOVARS, is now with the narrator, so the audio book should be released in the first quarter of 2009 as planned. If you read A CORPSE IN THE SOUP, ( Read more... )

I would think that with the election over, the heat about Sarah Palin's outrageous clothing fiasco would be dying down. But no. Today she said she never asked for the clothes, just a Diet Coke or two. If I were her I'd like to calm things down, too, but maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle ( Read more... )

Okay, there's lots of hype about Alaska right now. Some of the references to small town and unusual attitudes is right on. My sister and co-author of the Silver Sisters Mysteries, Phyllice Bradner was a resident of Alaska (both Anchorage and Juneau) for over thirty years, married into a political family and was a political print specialist who ( Read more... )

DEADLY DANCE is a book that I started so many years ago we didn't even have e-mail. I think it's been at least nine years since it was first conceived as Dance with the Devil. The biggest problem with the first, second and third version was that at that time I didn't know how to write fiction. Wow, have I learned a lot ( Read more... )

As usual, here I am at midnight going through e-mails, blogs, etc. I keep a Google Alert for cozy mysteries and Silver Sisters Mysteries. As I was scrolling through the alert fo cozy mysteries, I came upon a post for the following blogspot ( Read more... )