Progress on Rosie and a book review.

     Just wanted to do a quick review here today. If you like a good cozy and are looking for something to read, "Yarned and Dangerous, " by Sadie Hartwell is a good one to check out. It's Book I in her new series. This story is chock full of suspects, but I didn't even come close to who the killer might be. My kind of mystery, for sure. I met Sadie at last year's Crime Bake. She was delightful. She didn't look sinister... Looking forward to Book II.

     Making progress on "Cruising to a Murder." I should be finished by the end of September, take a month to polish it as much as I can and then...drum roll, please... PITCH IT AT CRIME BAKE!!!! 

     My Horoscope stories are coming along. "The Girl in the White Jeep Wrangler" is complete, as is, "Balance and Symmetry, a Story of the Scales" "Taurus, the Wandering Bull" is almost finished. It's a little longer than the short stories I usually write - probably because I'm not sure where it's going. I only know that someone has to die. It is, after all, a story from MY brain. Ha ha...

No Relation

The only similarity between Rosalie Chandler and Jennifer Hammond is, they were born in the same brain. Where Rosie is a mature, loving nurturer, Jenn is a psychopathic teen - so beautiful on the outside, hiding such an awful truth, inside. Will she get her due? We'll See.

Jennifer's story will be told in an, as yet, untitled anthology being put together by our very talented and diverse writing group.

We meet every Friday evening and are working diligently for your reading pleasure. Our stories will make you think, laugh, or dive for your covers. What they won't do, is disappoint.

My Time Has Come

In a couple of months I’ll be celebrating my 70^th birthday and I’ve decided to do it in a big way. I’ve been working on a novel for a  long time now, and have sat by and watched most of my writing friends become published. While I couldn't be happier for them, I have to question myself as to why I've procrastinated as long as I have with my own work.

And then I thought…

If not now, when?

This next birthday has been haunting me, so I'm just going to go full speed ahead. This will be the year I pull out all the stops and give it all I’ve got. I have a four-book series in me that is dying to come out and I plan to pitch it at this year's New England Crime Bake in November.

Rosalie Chandler is a woman of a certain age. When she boards a cruise ship with her husband, Stanley, for their long-awaited cruise to Bermuda, she has no idea how much her life is about to change.

Feeling a little depressed over her fifty-something birthday, and, oh-by-the-way, that twenty or so extra pounds that seems to have crept up on her over the last few years, Rosalie is fairly certain that her life has begun to wind down. That is, until she meets six women only a few years older than her own daughters, who welcome her with open arms into their newly formed clique.

When the group decides to gather their wits and sets out to solve the mystery of a missing crew member, they, and Rosalie (dubbed, "Rosie"), by her new circle of friends, realize that she has a knack for all things investigative which makes the group look to her not only for motherly advice, but for clues and insight into the disappearance as well.

Rosie is funny, smart and heartbreakingly fragile in this story of a woman looking for her place in the world when she doesn't seem to fit anywhere, anymore.