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Susan McCormick is an award-winning author and doctor who lives in Seattle. She graduated from Smith College and George Washington University Medical School, with additional. . .
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Ramey James is the nom de plume of New York Times bestselling author Deanna Chase and RITA® award-winning editor Angie Ramey. After meeting online in a glass forum almost two. . .
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Award winning author, Dawn Brookes lives in Derbyshire, England and holds an MA in Creative Writing with Distinction. She is the author of three cozy mystery series:
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Glen Ebisch was born in Passaic, New Jersey. He received a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University and taught philosophy for over twenty-five years. He has had over thirty. . .
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Kay DiBianca is an award-winning author who loves to create literary puzzles in the mystery genre for thoughtful readers to solve. Her characters come to life as they struggle to. . .
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Humor with a side of homicide. Addison’s mysteries are criminally cozy.
Addison Moore is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author who writes mystery,. . .
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Cait Byrne lives a quiet countryside life, where misty mornings and drizzly winters spark her creativity for writing short, sweet romantic mysteries. Away from the hustle of the. . .
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L.L. Gray writes captivating, fast-paced fantasy full of wit, warmth, and magic. Her books transport readers to charming, cozy worlds brimming with lovable characters and whimsical. . .
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Susan Page Davis is the author of more than 100 novels. She writes romantic suspense, historical romance, and mystery. She is a Maine native now living in Kentucky, and a member of. . .
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Rachele Baker is a veterinarian and the author of the Rylie Sunderland cozy mystery series. She lives in northern California close to Lake Tahoe and the Napa Valley wine country. . .
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Though Tana is an unapologetic Anglophile, she also has a passion for France. At fifteen she spent her summer studying French in Villard-de-Lans near Grenoble and fell in love with. . .
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Award-winning and best-selling author Lucinda Race is a avid fan of fiction. As a young girl, she spent hours reading cozy mystery and. . .
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A native of California, A.B. Michaels holds masters’ degrees in history (UCLA) and broadcasting (San Francisco State University). After working for many years as a promotional. . .
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National bestselling author Diane Vallere writes funny and fashionable character-based mysteries where style meets sleuthing. After two decades in luxury retailing, she traded. . .
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Genre-hopping introvert and word witch living somewhere between the forest and the sea in East Devon, UK.
Jeannie finds inspiration everywhere: myths, stories and songs, people. . .
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Writing in a variety of genres, Black’s character driven stories rarely turn out quite the way the reader would expect. The author combines imagination and experience to weave. . .
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Shelley grew up in California’s Central Valley, the daughter of Dust Bowl immigrants who made good on their ambition to get out of the field. She recently retired from teaching. . .
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An instructor at five colleges over the years, Paula Darnell most often taught the dreaded first-year English composition classes, but she’s also been happy to teach some fun. . .
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Hope Callaghan is an American mystery author who loves to write clean, fun-filled women’s fiction mysteries with a touch of faith and romance. She is the author of more than 100. . .
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Vanessa Kelly is a bestselling author of historical mystery and historical romance. She has won multiple awards, including the prestigious Maggie Medallion for best historical. . .
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Susan McCormick is an award-winning author and doctor who lives in Seattle. She graduated from Smith College and George Washington University Medical School, with additional medical training in San Francisco and Washington, DC. She served as a doctor for nine years in the US Army before moving to the Pacific Northwest and civilian practice. She is married and has two boys. She loves giant dogs and has loved Earl, an English Mastiff, and two Newfoundlands, Edward and Albert. Visit her at https://susanmccormickbooks.com.
Ramey James is the nom de plume of New York Times bestselling author Deanna Chase and RITA® award-winning editor Angie Ramey. After meeting online in a glass forum almost two decades ago and being “imaginary friends” for a while, they finally met in person and became instant besties.
Angie was there, cheering Deanna on when she wrote and published her first book. After years of being Deanna’s assistant and editor, the two finally teamed up to write about some of their own shenanigans in the fictional town they call Hoochville. Some of the scenes might be rooted in the truth, but they’ll never tell which.
Award winning author, Dawn Brookes lives in Derbyshire, England and holds an MA in Creative Writing with Distinction. She is the author of three cozy mystery series:
The Rachel Prince Mysteries are hugely popular and combine a unique blend of murder, cruising and medicine with a touch of romance. These books are regularly bestsellers across the globe. The first two books are soon to be translated into Japanese.
The Carlos Jacobi series has gained its own readership. Carlos is a PI, who owns an ex-cadaver Springer Spaniel and works alongside Fiona Cook, a troubled, but likeable.
The Lady Marjorie Snellthorpe Mysteries begins with the prequel Death of a Blogger and has grown in popularity since first being published.
Dawn also has a 39 year nursing pedigree and has travelled extensively throughout her life. Nowadays, she loves cruise holidays and says she should do more for research purposes! Dawn brings her passion for cruises, animals and engaging characters along with a love of clean crime into her Rachel Prince & Lady Marjorie series.
The surname of the Rachel Prince protagonist is in honour of her childhood dog, ‘Prince’, who used to put his head on her knee while she lost herself in books.
Dawn is also author of a series of memoirs. Hurry up Nurse: Memoirs of nurse training in the 1970s, Hurry up Nurse 2: London calling and Hurry up Nurse 3: More adventures in the life of a student nurse. Dawn worked as a hospital nurse, midwife, district nurse and community matron across a thirty-nine year year career. Before turning her hand to writing for a living, she had multiple articles published in professional journals and co-edited a nurse textbook.
She grew up in Leicester where her second and third Carlos Jacobi Books are based, Dawn moved to London and Berkshire but now lives in Derbyshire. Dawn holds a bachelors degree with honours in community health studies, a Masters degree in education as well as her MA in Creative Writing.
Writing across genres, Dawn also writes for children.
Dawn has a passion for nature and loves animals, especially dogs and there has rarely been a time in her life when she hasn’t had a dog. Animals will continue to feature in her children’s books as she believes caring for animals and nature helps children to become kinder human beings.
Glen Ebisch was born in Passaic, New Jersey. He received a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University and taught philosophy for over twenty-five years. He has had over thirty mystery novels published. He lives with his wife in western Massachusetts where he enjoys reading, going to the gym, and yoga.
Kay DiBianca is an award-winning author who loves to create literary puzzles in the mystery genre for thoughtful readers to solve. Her characters come to life as they struggle to solve murders and create relationships amidst the ongoing themes of faith and family.
An avid runner, Kay can often be found at a nearby track, on the treadmill, or at a large park near her home. You can usually find one of her characters training or racing through her stories.
Kay’s background in software development fuels her fascination with mysteries, and her dedication to running helps supply the endurance and energy to write them.
Kay and her husband, Frank, live, run, and write in Memphis, Tennessee.
You can connect with Kay through her website at https://kaydibianca.com.
Humor with a side of homicide. Addison’s mysteries are criminally cozy.
Addison Moore is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author who writes mystery, psychological thrillers and romance. Her work has been featured in Cosmopolitan magazine. Previously she worked as a therapist on a locked psychiatric unit for nearly a decade. She resides on the West Coast with her husband, four wonderful children and two cats where she eats too much chocolate and stays up way too late. When she’s not writing, she’s reading.
Cait Byrne lives a quiet countryside life, where misty mornings and drizzly winters spark her creativity for writing short, sweet romantic mysteries. Away from the hustle of the mainstream, she spends her free time tending sheep and nurturing her vegetable patch.
A strong believer in life-long love—Cait pours that conviction into her writing, weaving romance into every twist of mystery. Her novels take readers to moody English manor houses, Scottish castles, and Welsh farms, offering cozy escapes filled with intrigue and heart.
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L.L. Gray writes captivating, fast-paced fantasy full of wit, warmth, and magic. Her books transport readers to charming, cozy worlds brimming with lovable characters and whimsical adventures. A lifelong enthusiast of fantasy and myths, L.L. Gray blends humor and heart, inviting readers to escape into her spellbinding stories that feel like home—cozy, magical, and impossible to put down.
Susan Page Davis is the author of more than 100 novels. She writes romantic suspense, historical romance, and mystery. She is a Maine native now living in Kentucky, and a member of American Christian Fiction Writers. Her books have won several awards including the Carol Award for her novel The Prisoners Wife; the Faith, Hope, and Love Inspirational Readers’ Choice Award for The Prisoner’s Wife and The Lumberjack’s Lady (Maine Brides series); and the Will Rogers Medallion Award for her novels Captive Trail (Texas Trails series, 2012), The Rancher’s Legacy (Homeward Trails series, 2022), and The Outlaw Takes a Bride (2016). Visit her website at https://susanpagedavis.com
Rachele Baker is a veterinarian and the author of the Rylie Sunderland cozy mystery series. She lives in northern California close to Lake Tahoe and the Napa Valley wine country where the Rylie Sunderland cozy mystery series takes place. She drew on her many years of experience as a practicing veterinarian to develop the main character for this series, Rylie, who is also a veterinarian. Rachele’s golden retriever Savanna was the inspiration for Rylie’s golden retriever Bella.
In her free time, Rachele enjoys exploring northern California wine country, Lake Tahoe, and areas along the California coast like Mendocino, Monterey, and Big Sur. Some of her favorite things include freshly brewed coffee in the morning, walks in nature, and, of course, golden retrievers.
Sign up for Rachele’s Cozy Chat monthly e-newsletter using the link on her website to get info about her books, photos from her adventures, news for book lovers, and the opportunity to participate in fun contests and giveaways. You can also connect with Rachele online on Facebook, Instagram, X, BookBub, and Goodreads.
Though Tana is an unapologetic Anglophile, she also has a passion for France. At fifteen she spent her summer studying French in Villard-de-Lans near Grenoble and fell in love with the French lifestyle. It wasn’t long before she realized that her lust for Paris and Bordeaux, where Art, Wine, and Crime is set, would keep calling her back. She shares that passion and many others with her husband, Tom. When they aren’t in the UK, France, or someplace else wonderful, they spend their time in Sanford, NC, and New Jersey with their amazing son, daughter-in-law, and two fabulous grandchildren.
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Award-winning and best-selling author Lucinda Race is a avid fan of fiction. As a young girl, she spent hours reading cozy mystery and romance novels and getting lost in the fun and hope they represent. While her friends dreamed of becoming doctors and engineers, her dream was to become an expert at crafting a captivating novel.
As life twisted and turned, she found herself writing nonfiction but longed to turn to her true passion. After developing the storyline for the McKenna Family Romance series and the Paranormal Cozy Nook Bookstore Series, it was time to start living her dream. Her fingers practically fly over computer keys. She weaves paranormal cozy mystery stories and romance with guaranteed happily ever afters.
Lucinda lives with her two little dogs, a miniature long hair dachshund and a shitzu mix rescue, in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts. When she’s not at her day job, she’s immersed in her fictional worlds. And if she’s not writing mystery, suspense or romance novels, she’s reading everything she can get her hands on.
Follow her on social media and sign up for her cozy or romance newsletter at www.lucindarace.cm
A native of California, A.B. Michaels holds masters’ degrees in history (UCLA) and broadcasting (San Francisco State University). After working for many years as a promotional writer and editor, she turned to writing fiction, which is the hardest thing she’s ever done besides raising two boys. She lives with her husband and two spoiled dogs in Boise, Idaho, where she is often distracted by playing darts and bocce, learning pinochle, and trying to hit a golf ball more than fifty yards. Reading and travel figure into the mix, leading her to hope that sometime soon, someone invents a 25+ hour day. Her historical fiction series, “The Golden City,” explores America’s Gilded Age and its effect on characters, both actual and fictional, while her contemporary series, “Sinner’s Grove,” follows descendants of The Golden City as they navigate today’s equally treacherous waters. She is currently expanding both series.
National bestselling author Diane Vallere writes funny and fashionable character-based mysteries where style meets sleuthing. After two decades in luxury retailing, she traded fashion accessories for accessories to murder. As past president of the national Sisters in Crime organization, she edited the Agatha-Award-winning essay collection PROMOPHOBIA: Taking the Mystery out of Promoting Crime Fiction. Diane started her own detective agency at age ten and has maintained a passion for shoes, clues, and clothes ever since.
Diane-Fans describe “her vintage Vallere goodness,” and say she is a “great storyteller” with “a way with creating strong female characters and intrigue” who is “a superb and very humorous writer.” Her gift of creating “spunky sleuths in fun settings” take readers to Dallas, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Pennsylvania, and outer space.
DIANE’S SERIES:
👗 Killer Fashion Mysteries (humorous mysteries with many mentions of pretzels)
✨ Madison Night Mysteries (cozy/traditional mysteries winking at Doris Day movies)
🚀 Sylvia Stryker Sky Crimes and Misdemeanors (mystery in outer space)
🧵 Material Witness Mysteries (fabric shop, cozy)
🎭 Costume Shop Mysteries (costume shop, cozy)
🧜♀️ Dead in the Water (Mermaids!)
🧠 Non-fiction: Bonbons for your Brain
Genre-hopping introvert and word witch living somewhere between the forest and the sea in East Devon, UK.
Jeannie finds inspiration everywhere: myths, stories and songs, people watching, a word here, a look there, but mainly in the landscape. Devon has it all – rocky coast, pebble and sandy beaches, winding lanes and picture perfect cottages, cliffs and forest.
A good day for Jeannie means a blustery wind, racing waves and salty rain. She lives with her husband and two dogs, make a lot of soup, plays too many computer games and loves watching movies.
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Writing in a variety of genres, Black’s character driven stories rarely turn out quite the way the reader would expect. The author combines imagination and experience to weave dramatic plots with believable characters in descriptive settings, whether contemporary or supernatural.
Those familiar with her prose can attest to her fascination with the paranormal. Even when it isn’t the basis of the plot, it is not unusual to find a touch of the supernatural in her books. Occasionally, the reference is so subtle, the reader could miss it.
With a passion for animals, the author includes a four-legged character in most storylines, even if just a cameo appearance. Two of Black’s novels, “Race into Murder” and “Ride into Romance,” draw on her background as a racehorse owner. Her experience at the racetrack supplies realism to the setting, the races and the characters.
Black lives in the United States with her husband, and two alien creatures disguised as cats. While each of the furry critters is unique, one of them is rumored to be ET’s second cousin. The rumor, however, has not been confirmed.
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Shelley grew up in California’s Central Valley, the daughter of Dust Bowl immigrants who made good on their ambition to get out of the field. She recently retired from teaching writing at Sacramento State University and still consults with writers in the energy industry. She serves as President of the Board of 916 Ink, an arts-based creative writing nonprofit for children, and serves on the Board of Advisors for the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies at Claremont McKenna College. She recently stepped down from co-directing Stories on Stage Sacramento, where actors perform the stories of established and emerging authors. She interviews mystery and thriller authors for the Mystery Review Crew. Copy Boy is her first Jane Benjamin Novel. Tomboy is her second. The third, Poster Girl, will come out in November 2023. (She Writes Press) Her writing has been a finalist in the Sarton Book Awards, IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion Award, the American Fiction Awards, and the National Indie Excellence Awards. She and her husband live in Sacramento, surrounded by photos of their out-of-town sons, their wonderful partners, very first grandchild, and a lifetime of beloved dogs.
An instructor at five colleges over the years, Paula Darnell most often taught the dreaded first-year English composition classes, but she’s also been happy to teach some fun classes, such as fashion design, sewing, and jewelry making. Paula has a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and a Master’s degree in English from the University of Nevada, Reno.
Like Laurel, the main character in Death by Association, Paula enjoys all kinds of arts and crafts. Some of her memorable projects include making a hat and a cape to wear to Royal Ascot, sewing wedding gowns for both her daughters, exhibiting her textile and mixed-media artwork in juried art shows, and having one of her jewelry projects accepted for inclusion in Leather Jewelry, published by Lark Books. She sells some of her jewelry and hair accessories in her Etsy shop.
Paula’s interest in DIY craft projects and fashion led to her writing hundreds of articles for print and online national publications.
She is the author of the cozy mystery series, DIY Diva Mysteries, and a historical mystery, The Six-Week Solution. Her new cozy mystery series, Fine Art Mysteries, is in the works for 2021.
Paula lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, with her husband Gary and their 110-pound dog Rocky, whose favorite pastime is lurking in the kitchen, hoping for a handout.
Hope Callaghan is an American mystery author who loves to write clean, fun-filled women’s fiction mysteries with a touch of faith and romance. She is the author of more than 100 novels in ten different series.
Born and raised in a small town in West Michigan, she now lives in Florida with her husband. She is the proud mother of 3 wonderful children.
When she’s not doing the thing she loves best – writing mysteries – she enjoys cooking, traveling and reading books.
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Vanessa Kelly is a bestselling author of historical mystery and historical romance. She has won multiple awards, including the prestigious Maggie Medallion for best historical romance. She is a USA Today, Barnes & Noble, BookScan, and Amazon bestseller several times over. To date, her books have been published in eleven languages. After receiving her MA in English literature from Rutgers University, Vanessa spent several years in the Ph.D program at the University of Toronto, studying women authors of the 18th Century. She worked as a researcher for many years, and currently resides in Ottawa, Canada, with her husband.