Fireworks
No, I’m not going to give you the entire history of fireworks (wasn’t China involved, a long time ago? Or was that gunpowder?) Since the Fourth is upon us, I’ve…
Author: Sheila Connolly
A Change of Scene
Liz Mugavero kindly offered to let me take over her slot today, because my new book in a new series is coming out today: Murder at the Mansion, the first…
What Have You Done?
by Sheila Connolly What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever done in the name of research? Last year I wrote about meeting an accused killer in Ireland, whose story I borrowed…
Talking and Silence
Years ago, I had a friend who said she thought in colors. This would have been handy for her, since we were both studying art history, but I never quite…
Happy Holidays
by Sheila Connolly Yesterday was one of the major holidays in the religious world—Easter. This year, by coincidence, April 1 was also the fixed date of one of the silliest…
Cozy Cats and Authors
Recently Fellow Wicked Edith wrote a great post in defense of genre books, which some cluless people consider less important than so-called literary fiction, You know, those books that the…
The Big Game
by Sheila Connolly I hear there was a big game yesterday. (Oh, all right, I watched it. How could I not? I live in Massachusetts, and before that I worked…
Ten Years Later
2018 marks the tenth anniversary of the publication of my first book. Not the first book I wrote—there are a few in a drawer (or on a disk) that may…
The Wickeds 