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Desserts: Five Ingredients

6/8/2020

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Recipes for the five-ingredient desserts shown in the photos are now on this website (under the Extras menu). Five of the six are easy to make. The only challenging one is the tarte Tatin in the last picture. But it's worth the trouble if you have some time on your hands. 

I've joined the 
Mystery Lovers' Kitchen blog, where writers share their favorite recipes, chat about food topics, and pass on news about their books. Check out some of the easy recipes I've posted there. 
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Costumes: Mirrors of the Soul?

7/13/2019

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Cover of Crypt Suzette by Maya Corrigan with a black cat, jack o'lantern, candy corn, and shelves with books and Halloween decorationsPicture
Crypt Suzette is now available for pre-order and discounted at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Target, and BAM. 
Does a costume disguise or reveal who you really are? That question comes up in Crypt Suzette, my sixth Five-Ingredient Mystery. When Val caters a Halloween party at Bayport’s bookshop, a costume contest is part of the festivities. The contestants are supposed to dress as fictional characters. When the prizewinner, Suzette, is murdered, her competitors are suspects. Val can't help wondering if they might have something in common with the violent characters they portray: Lady Macbeth, the Phantom of the Opera, Count Dracula, and Morgan le Fay, the evil sorceress from Camelot. 
 
Val, who dresses as Nancy Drew, tells her friend Bethany, “People choose costumes that mirror their personalities.” Do you agree? Or is wearing a costume an excuse to take on a totally different personality? How do you choose a costume?

Comment by July 21st for a chance to win an advanced reader edition of Crypt Suzette.
UPDATE: The contest is over. The winner is Gail. Thank you to those who wrote about the costumes they've worn and their reasons for choosing them. It was fun to read the variety of comments. The common thread is that we express ourselves through costumes whether they represent who we are or who we would like to be. 
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Book Clubs: Why I Love Them

7/12/2019

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I enjoy visiting book clubs because ...
  • Book club members tell me if they figured out whodunit. Like most mystery writers, I spend a lot of time thinking up motives, clues, and red herrings, but did I succeed? Book club members let me know if my red herrings worked.
  • Book club members focus my attention on my writing process. Questions about how I come up with plots, structure the mystery, and lay clues make me stand back from the daily word count and reflect on what I do. Answering those questions reminds me of the big picture.  
  • Book club members ask questions about the publishing process that I couldn't answer five years ago. Now I can. It reminds me what an unexpected adventure publishing a book has been.
  • Book club members give me ideas for future books by telling me about the characters and threads they want me to explore.
And finally…
  • Book club members have made recipes from my books! So have bookshop owners. It’s an incredible treat for me, not just to eat what they’ve made, but also to hear that the recipes were quick and easy . . . and also hear their suggestions for improvement!
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My neighbor's Reston Book Club
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Brandeis Women's Mystery Book Club
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Brandeis Women's Mystery Book Club
I like visiting book clubs even if they don't feed me and even if I do it remotely by Skype or FaceTime. Check out my Book Club page for topics of discussion about the Five-Ingredient Mysteries.
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Five-Ingredient Holiday Recipes

11/18/2018

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A roast turkey being carved
Turkey is the classic Thanksgiving dish, but you cannot live by turkey alone. What's your favorite holiday side dish? Comment for a chance to win a free book. Below you'll find two reader-favorite recipes from the first Five-Ingredient Mystery, By Cook or by Crook. The dishes are suitable for Thanksgiving and other holiday dinners. I'm also sharing a simple herb stuffing recipe. To view the recipes, click Read More below.
 
Leave a comment about your favorite holiday side dish to enter a drawing for the Five-Ingredient Mystery of your choice or an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) of the upcoming sixth book in the series. To comment, click on the word Comments in the column to the left of this post. 
 
Last day to enter: Sunday, December 16, 2018. The winner is Kay from Arkansas. Thank you to everyone who shared their favorite side dish. Stuffing seemed to get the most votes, followed by yams or sweet potatoes. 


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Puns in Book Titles

6/30/2018

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Book covers of By Cook or by Crook, Scam Chowder, The Tell-Tale Tarte, and S'more Murders by Maya Corrigan
Puns in the titles of cozy mysteries signal a light tone and often a large helping of humor. The tradition of using a food pun in the titles of culinary mysteries traces back to the 1990s when Diane Mott Davidson’s Cereal Murders and Phyllis Richman’s The Butter Did It came out. If anyone knows of earlier punning titles of food mysteries, please let me know. Four of my titles incorporate a pun with food and the suggestion of wrongdoing or death. For all but my first book, the title dish has five-ingredients or fewer, appears on the cover, and plays a role in the plot. Needless to say, I obsess about titles.

​Comment with your favorite punning culinary (or other) mystery title for a chance to win an Advanced Reader Edition of S'more Murders, which comes out on July 31st. To comment, click on the word "Comments" in the column to the left of this post.
 
Note: I can ship only to U.S. addresses. The contest ends Sunday, July 8th at midnight. I'll contact the winner by email and announce the results in this blog.
Share your favorite puns and good luck! 

Chris Mann is the winner of the contest! 
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Thank you to everyone who shared a title with a pun. I've enjoyed reading them.

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Titanic Fascination

4/14/2018

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Books covers of S'more Murders, Last Dinner on the Titanic, Titanic for Dummies, and Titanic from Rare Historical Recors
Some books I consulted while researching S'more Murders.
"I want you to duplicate the final dinner served on the Titanic. Ten courses for eight people.”

Val Deniston stared at Otto Warbeck. Was he joking? Not visibly. The yacht owner had wrinkles in his forehead, but no smile lines. Not a man given to jests. When she’d agreed to cater a dinner for him on the Chesapeake Bay, she hadn’t expected him to demand an elaborate, custom-made meal, not to mention one with really bad karma. 
​--S'more Murders, Chapter 1
Today is the 106th anniversary of the day when the Titanic hit an iceberg. When I started researching S'more Murders, my Titanic-themed culinary mystery, I was surprised to find dozens of nonfiction titles about the disaster at my local library, a small subset of the books on the subject. A Google search of Titanic brings up 28 million hits. A rare copy of a menu from the first meal served aboard the Titanic is slated for auction later this month, expected to sell for 100,000 British pounds (140,000 U.S. dollars).

What explains this fascination with a disaster that claimed 1500+ victims more than a century ago? Comment with your thoughts for a chance to win an Advanced Reader Edition of S'more Murders. Note: The contest ended May 1, and the winner is K.G. from Arkansas. ​
To comment, click on the word "Comments" in the column to the left of this post.

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Rebecca's 80th Anniversary

4/12/2018

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Eighty years ago this month, Daphne du Maurier delivered the manuscript of Rebecca to her publisher. The publisher ordered a first print run of 20,000 copies. Within a month the book had sold twice that number. The American Booksellers Association voted it 1938's favorite novel, and it has never been out of print since it was first published.

British bookseller WHSmith, celebrating its 225th anniversary this year, asked readers to select their favorite book of the the last 225 years. Books by Dickens, Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Orwell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Harper Lee made the shortlist. Rebecca came in as the readers' favorite. 

What's your all-time favorite book? Comment with your answer for a chance to win a free book. To comment, click on the word "Comments" in the column to the left of this post. Note: The contest ended May 1, and the book is on its way to the winner. ​​

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A.A. Milne: Man of Mystery

1/18/2018

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Photo of author A.A. Milne holding a pipe
A.A. Milne, photo by E.O. Hoppé, 1922
Author A.A. Milne was born on this day, January 18th, in 1882. Apart from looking in the photo here as if he's playing Sherlock Holmes, Milne had other connections to mysteries in his life and his writing.

Five little-known facts about Alan Alexander Milne:
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1.  The creator of Winnie-the-Pooh was on a celebrity athletic team with the creator of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle), and the author of Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie). What sport did they play? I'll leave you in suspense until the end of the post.

2. Milne had a secret job in British Military Intelligence.

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Holiday Giveaway

12/21/2017

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The GIVEAWAY is over. The winner of 12 books is Connie, whose favorite holiday dish is a meatless mincemeat pie. Thank you to those who took the time to comment. I enjoyed reading about everyone's holiday favorites.

While writing a Poe version of "The 12 Days of Christmas," I researched the song's origin. The lyrics enumerate gifts given each day leading up to the 12th day after Christmas, the traditional end of the holiday season. According to Christian tradition, that was the day the Magi presented the Christ child with gifts. Twelfth Night festivities, which date back to medieval England, involved gift giving, games, songs, dances, and a special food--the Twelfth Night cake, made with butter, eggs, sugar, fruit, nuts, spices, and a dried bean. The person whose slice of cake contained the bean served as the king or queen of the revels, with power to command the others. Disguises and sometimes social role reversals occurred, as servants gave orders to their "betters" for one night a year.

To celebrate Twelfth Night, I'm giving away twelve books, mostly cozy mysteries, on January 6, 2018. To enter the drawing for the books, leave a comment about a food you associate with the holidays and include your email address. I'll announce the winner here on January 7th. One winner will receive all twelve books. Sorry, I can send only to postal addresses in the U.S. My favorite holiday food is my grandmother's dessert pierogi with a sweet cheese filling. What's yours?
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Austen and Poe: 10 Things They Have in Common

7/18/2017

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Image of Jane Austen with curls peeking out from under a bonnet
Image of Poe with dark curls, brows, and mustache
On the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death today, I was struck by the similarities between her and Edgar Allan Poe, inspiration for The Tell-Tale Tarte, my latest mystery.  
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1. Mark Twain dissed them both, and in a single sentence. Twain said of Poe: “To me his prose is unreadable—like Jane Austen’s.”
2. Both are honored with action figures, as is Shakespeare, but not Mark Twain (only a bobble head).   
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​3. Both died young: Austen at 41, Poe at 40.
 
4. Both published in the first half of the 19th century: Jane Austen’s major works came out in the 1810s, Poe’s in the 1830s and 1840s.
 
5. Both had difficulty getting published and earning a living from their writing. Poe needed money more desperately than Austen, whose poverty was genteel.
Poe action figure with raven on his shoulder and Austen action figure with a book in one hand and a quill pen in the other

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Poe Museum in Richmond

6/23/2017

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Postcard illustration of the stone building housing the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, VirginiaPostcard illustration of the stone building housing the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia
​Edgar Allan Poe’s spirit hovers over the Mid-Atlantic. If you fly over the region at night, you can see a string of lights connecting places where Poe lived and worked: Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York. Each has a Poe museum. Looking forward to the publication of my Poe-themed mystery, The Tell-Tale Tarte, I visited the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond last weekend. What a treasure trove!


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Tell-Tale Tarte Review and Giveaways

6/21/2017

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Cover of the The Tell-Tale Tarte by Maya Corrigan with ingredients for a Tarte Tatin
Read Raven-Award winner Dru Ann Love's review of The Tell-Tale Tarte at Dru's Book Musings.  

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On Saturday, June 24th, Dru Ann  will host me on her award-winning blog . On that day you can get a peek at the opening chapter of The Tell-Tale Tarte and enter a drawing for the book.

Another chance to win! Take the Poe poll on the Home page of this site. The winner will be chosen on the day The Tell-Tale Tarte is published, June 27th.  
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Hitchcock and Final Fondue

3/25/2017

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Cover of Final Fondue by Maya Corrigan with fondue pot and ingredients: chocolate, strawberry, banana, an orange, and a cake cube speared with a fondue fork
Poster for Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Rope, with star James Stewart holding a length of rope
This year marks the 90th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock's first cameo appearance in a movie he directed: The Lodger (1927), a silent film about the hunt for a killer resembling Jack the Ripper. Hitchcock appeared briefly in 39 of his 52 films, often in street, bus, or train scenes.

​In a sense, he makes a cameo appearance in Final Fondue, the third of my Five-Ingredient Mysteries.

Shortly after cafe manager Val and her grandfather serve chocolate fondue to welcome house guests, one of the guests turns up dead in the backyard, strangled with a rope. Nobody imagines that the murder weapon was inspired by one of Granddad's Hitchcock movie posters until threats reminiscent of other Hitchcock films beset Granddad's guests. Is one of them a movie copy cat killer? Which Hitchcock film will inspire the next attack? And who will be the next victim? 

Read more about Final Fondue.


View Hitchcock's cameos.
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Valentine's Day Treats

2/13/2017

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Val (short for Valentine), the sleuth in my Five-Ingredient Mysteries, was born on February 14th. I'm celebrating her birthday with some Web pages that focus on love for the month of February.  
Read a sweet humorous story about married love: Can Jenny get through the day without uttering the four little words that every spouse loves to say but hates to hear? 

Test your knowledge of Sleuthing Sweethearts by trying the trivia quiz 

Explore how chocolate, love, and murder intertwine 

Try the Fast Chocolate Fondue recipe
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Timesaving Recipes and Tips

10/31/2015

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Cover of We'd Rather Be Writing with images of ingredients, including tomatoes, cheese, peppers, and garlic
Just in time for holiday cooking and gift giving, We'd Rather Be Writing: 88 Authors Share Timesaving Dinner Recipes and Other Tips is available. I'm one of the authors who contributed tips and an easy recipe to the book. Here are some photos of the vegetarian version of my Mediterranean pasta with artichokes, olives, and feta cheese. The recipe in the book includes instructions for making a shrimp version.  
At 99 cents for the e-book version and a comparably low price for the paperback, it's hard to pass up this helpful book, available now from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. For more information about the book and a complete list of contributors, visit editor Lois Winston's page about the book.
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What is Scam Chowder?

6/27/2015

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Book cover of Scam Chowder by Maya Corrigan with a soup tureen, clams, salt pork, onions, potatoes, and creamScam Chowder cover
Scam Chowder (Five-Ingredient Mystery #2) is out.  Here is a preview of the opening chapter from Val, the sleuth in the series.

Cook and run—those were Granddad’s instructions to me this evening. I was supposed to make the chowder for his dinner guests from the retirement village and get out of the kitchen. Then he would add the final ingredients and claim credit for the whole meal. This ruse was part of his campaign to win the heart of Lillian, the Village’s most attractive widow, whose husband had made her gourmet meals. To convince Lillian of his cooking skills, Granddad has no qualms about passing off my recipes and my dinners as his own creations. By eavesdropping, I discovered that more than a romance was at stake tonight. Granddad, egged on by Lillian, planned to confront a dinner guest who’d scammed retirees out of their savings. But someone beat him to it, making tonight’s chowder the last thing the scammer would eat. 

Val makes two types of chowder for her grandfather's guests. When writing the book, I found a helpful video on cooking chowder: How to make three kinds of clam chowder, with Providence chef Michael Cimarusti. The 5-ingredient clear chowder meets Granddad's standards for a recipe. 
Which type do you prefer: clear chowder, red chowder, or creamy chowder? 

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Giveaway: Mystery Writers of America Cookbook

3/19/2015

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Page from the MWA Cookbook with Mary Ann Corrigan's vegetable salad recipe
Thrilled to have a recipe in the Mystery Writers of America Cookbook, I am hosting a giveaway, courtesy of Quirk Books.  Between the handsome covers of this book, you'll find recipes and anecdotes by today's crime writers. You'll also find essays on food in the writings of Poe, Conan Doyle, Christie and other giants of the mystery genre. 

The vegetable salad recipe I contributed is a family favorite for holiday dinners. “Take Your Pick” in the recipe title means you can substitute different vegetables depending on the time of year and your own tastes. The best feature of this recipe is that the veggies marinate for a day, giving you one less dish to prepare at the last minute.  What dish is a favorite when you get together with family and friends? 

To enter the drawing for a free book, leave a reply to this post. For another chance at winning, sign up for my infrequent newsletter. If you've already subscribed, say so in a comment, and I'll add another entry for you.  The contest runs from March 19 to midnight on April 18 eastern time. It is open to U.S. and Canada residents. Check back the last week of April for the winner's name. Good luck!
Finally, if you're a mystery fan, try the trivia quiz on this site, which involves matching a recipe from the book to the writer who submitted it. You'll find clues in the recipe titles. 

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Downton Abbey and Winnie-the-Pooh

1/18/2015

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Original cover of A.A. Milne's mystery
Children's author A.A. Milne, creator of Winnie-the-Pooh,  also wrote a detective novel. An odd connection exists between Milne's The Red House Mystery and Downton Abbey. The bones of the classic British mystery are on display in Milne's book:

* the English country house setting
* a crime investigated by an amateur
* a sidekick
* a locked-room puzzle
* a whodunit with clues that play fair with the reader

The book opens "below stairs" . . .

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5-Ingredient Cookbooks (more or less)

12/21/2014

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Now that I’m writing the Five-Ingredient Mysteries, friends give me cookbooks to plump out my collection of low-ingredient recipes. Here are three favorite books you might consider as gifts this season for yourself or someone else.

Cover of 5-10-15 Cookbook
Cover of Robin Takes 5 showing Robin cooking
Cover of Six Ingredients or Less, Third edition
If you have a favorite cookbook with recipes requiring few ingredients, please leave a comment and share your find. Here's why I like these three books. 

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Book Club Discussion Questions

11/17/2014

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A with her finger under her chin and the quote, Let's start a book club. And by book I do of course mean wine.
"What could a book club discuss about your mystery?" The question came up at my launch party for By Cook or by Crook. Afterwards, someone suggested I post book club discussion questions on my website. You can download and print a copy of the questions about all my books on the Book Club page.

Can you come up with other questions for a book club's discussion of a mystery? 


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Cover Reveal: Scam Chowder

10/23/2014

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Cover of Scam Chowder by Maya Corrigan: a soup tureen and the ingredients for clam chowder: clams in the shell, potatoes, and onion, cream, and a bowl of chowderScam Chowder comes out June 30, 2015
Book #2 in the Five-Ingredient Mystery series has a mouth-watering cover . . .  with a missing ingredient. 

The first book in the series had a cover image that set the style for future covers: the five ingredients needed for a dish in the forefront. This book's title made it clear what dish's ingredients would have to appear on the cover.   

When my editor asked me to suggest images for the cover, I proposed the tureen with the series name on it and the bay view.  I also listed five chowder ingredients to depict. For whatever reason, possibly aesthetic, one of the ingredients doesn't appear on the cover. 

Any chowder cooks reading this? What other ingredient would you put in your chowder that's not shown here?

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Writing While I Sleep

9/21/2014

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This post is part of the Sisters in Crime Blog Hop. The best part of the writing process takes place for me while I sleep. Until I wrote fiction, I had no idea how much creative work goes on while the body sleeps. Sometimes I go to bed with a lingering writing problem. Maybe I can’t figure out how to liven up a conversation between two characters. Or I wonder how to transition from the scene I’ve just written to the one that’s coming up. Or I don’t know how to insert a clue so that it’s not too obvious. The next morning I wake up with a solution to the problem.

During the night while my conscious brain was sleeping, my subconscious took over and came up with answers that eluded me the day before. If I don’t have a particular issue that stemmed from the day’s writing, my subconscious tackles a problem I didn’t even know I had, for example, it tells me about a clue I should have inserted fifty pages earlier.

Because sleep is essential to the creative process, I’ve worked hard to conquer my difficulties falling and staying asleep. A consultation with a sleep specialist helped me immensely. In an earlier blog, I shared the tips the sleep doctor gave me. One of those tips is related to this post:  Keep a notebook on your night table to jot down any inspirations that come to you in the middle of the night. Knowing that you won’t forget your brilliant idea by morning makes it easier to fall asleep.

Unfortunately, sleeping doesn’t help me get the words on the page, the most challenging part of the writing process. In order to finish a 75,000-word book on deadline, I have to sit at a keyboard and write the number of words I’ve set as a daily goal. Some days I reach my goal by mid-afternoon, other days, not until nine at night.
Writing, like so many other things in life, requires both inspiration and perspiration.

For other blog posts that are part of the Sisters in Crime blog hop, visit Carolyn Mulford's blog. Carolyn tagged me and I tagged Shari Randall. Her blog will appear Monday, September 29 on the Writers Who Kill blog. 

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Book Giveaway: By Cook or By Crook

9/9/2014

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Enter to win an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of By Cook or By Crook on Goodreads. 

Over the weekend I poked around Goodreads to see what it was like before becoming a member. A social media procrastinator, I signed up Facebook only a few months ago, fifteen years after the rest of the world, and waited until Goodreads had 20 million members before exploring it. To my surprise, I discovered my forthcoming book joined Goodreads before I did.

Kensington, has made 25 copies of the book available for a Goodreads giveaway. Enter to win one before September 30th on the By Cook or By Crook Goodreads page. 

The first book in the Five-Ingredient Mystery series, By Cook or by Crook contains eight delicious five-ingredient recipes. Learn more about the book. 

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Five Tips from the Sleep Doctor

4/18/2014

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10 sheep sleep while a woman awake in bed wonders if they're asleep or dead, who killed them and whyWhat keeps mystery writers awake at night
I used to spend hours awake in bed at night. My visit to a sleep specialist changed that.  


In addition to the usual good advice to cut down on caffeine after noon and on alcohol at night, he offered five suggestions that I hadn't heard before and that really helped me break  the habit of sleeplessness. 


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An Edible Book Cover

4/9/2014

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My brother's reaction to my book cover image, "Will they produce an edible version of it?" made me laugh. But it's not a bad idea. When the book comes out in November, I promise to serve an edible version at my book launch party. 

My brother correctly guessed what the ingredients on the book cover would make. Do you know a recipe that uses the ingredients depicted? Can you name other books with covers that look good enough to eat? Or books that made you hungry as you read them?  If so, please leave a comment.  

By Cook or by Crook comes out November 4, 2014, from Kensington Publishing. 

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably." --C.S. Lewis
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