The First Draft

by | Apr 23, 2021 | Blogs

I started writing the first draft of the third mystery in the Edmund DeCleryk series several months ago. It’s entitled Murder at Freedom Hill, and as with the first two books, the murder is linked to an historical event, this time the Abolition Movement and...

Mud Season

by | Mar 16, 2021 | Blogs

If you’ve ever read any of my Cozies, you may have noticed that the month of March doesn’t figure prominently in the narrative. Don’t get me wrong. We live on the south shore of Lake Ontario in New York state, and it’s spectacularly beautiful here almost year ‘round....

The Wine Blog

by | Mar 3, 2021 | Blogs

I’ve always believed that it’s easier to write about what you know, which is why wine features so prominently in my Edmund DeCleryk mysteries. Like my husband and me, Ed, and his wife Annie, live in the northern Finger Lakes region of New York, the second largest wine...

Gratitude and Poetry by Karen Shughart

by | Nov 17, 2020 | Blogs

For many years the poetry books I collected, starting in my teens, sat on our bookshelves untouched. I have no idea why I stopped reading poetry, but I did. Then, one cold and rainy afternoon last month, I made myself a cup of tea and after pulling several books off...