Downsizing
In my life I’ve lived in more places than I can count, starting when I was a child. The earliest house I remember was in Newark, Delaware, where we moved…
Author: Sheila Connolly
Have You Got It Right?
First Monday Post by Sheila Connolly I found myself writing not one but two books simultaneously for the past couple of weeks. Well, only one was new, but the other…
What You Remember
So here we are, on the first Monday of the first month of the new year. If I’d been smart when I started writing in 2001, I would have kept…
Snowdrop, or, How Books Have Changed
I’ve said before that when I’m in Ireland I go to the Skibbereen Farmers Market every Saturday. After doing this for enough years, I now have a number of friends,…
Have You Met Any Spirits Lately?
Halloween is past. That’s the day when spirits of the dead are said to walk the earth, if briefly. But if you ask me, I think they’re around far more…
Graham Robb and Middle Earth
I’m a mystery writer, so I read a lot of mysteries, most often books by friends or those recommended by friends or bloggers that I respect. Then there are the…
Reinventing Yourself
I’m at my cottage in Ireland at the moment, just chilling out after a rather challenging first half of 2018. I have to say that the country (the place and…
Happy or Sad
A week or so ago on Facebook I posed a question to cozy readers about how much of real-world issues they wanted to see in cozy books or series. Cozy…