Rose Lives On
News Flash: Dianne Casey is the lucky giveaway winner! Congratulations, Dianne, and please check your email. Edith/Maddie writing from northeast MA, where flowers are trying to bloom. Big news –…
Category: Short Stories
Congratulations, Edith on A Questionable Death!
Jessie, in New Hampshire where the robins are flitting about the garden! Today we are celebrating Edith’s release of A Questionable Death, a collection of short stories featuring her sleuth,…
Stories from the Past
Edith/Maddie here, writing from a who-knows-what kind of weather day north of Boston. What I do have is an exciting announcement. But first, a quiz. If I had titled this…
Malice Domestic- Time Capsule Edition
Jessie: In New Hampshire, where the first magnolia buds have opened! Since I thought that perhaps Liz and I aren’t the only ones missing Malice this year it seemed like…
A Chat with BLOODROOT Editor Susan Oleksiw
From Edith on an exciting mayoral election day here in Amesbury, MA on a decent-weather fall day. I am thrilled to have as my guest today Susan Oleksiw, one of…
Stories from the Past
Edith/Maddie here, writing from my favorite retreat cottage in West Falmouth, with a couple of things to celebrate. A few years ago, I blogged here about finding my grandmother Dorothy’s…
Heartbreaks and Half-truths
Our friend from our neighbor to the north, Judy Penz Sheluk, has compiled and edited a new anthology of short crime fiction. Heartbreaks & Half-truths: 22 Stories of Mystery &…
The Detective’s Daughter – Over the River and Through the Woods
Kim, in Baltimore, getting things together for the York Book Expo on November 2nd. I always joke that because my dad was a homicide detective and my mother grew…