When I first put pen to paper, I imagined I was writing the first in a series of musical mysteries. I wanted each of the books to have a music-related setting and to be filled with the sounds and experience…
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Writing My first Cozy Mystery Blog: Sunday Special: A Few of My Favorite Things
Today, I thought I'd take a break from the saga of writing my first cozy mystery novel and tell you about a few of my favorite things. They say good things come in threes, so here goes...
3 Recipes I’m…
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Writing my First Cozy Mystery: The Long List of Things I Didn't Know
I wrote my first cozy mystery in about a year. It added up to seventy-eight thousand three hundred words, two hundred seventy-nine pages, twenty-three chapters and five original songs. It was fun but also hard work, and I was rather…
Writing My First Cozy Mystery: What's in a Name?
How do I choose a name for the main character in my first book?
That's the question I wrestled with as the ideas that eventually coalesced into a cozy mystery rattled around in my head.
Stephanie Plum, Claire Malloy…
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Writing my First Cozy Mystery: Seven Musical Events that helped me design the festival setting for my cozy
I wanted each book in my series of cozy mysteries to be steeped in music, infused with the sounds and experience of music making. So, what better location for the first murder than a music festival?
In creating the Oak…
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Writing My First Cozy Mystery: 6 Ways a Writer's Group Can be Helpful
Just about the time I finished the second chapter of my cozy mystery, the opportunity arose to join a writer's group facilitated by Pauline Hahn, an amazing writer, actress and teacher. Members of the group included a poet, a…
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Writing my first Cozy Mystery: Six Reasons to Write About Murder
I told my mother I was writing a book.
"What's it about?" she asked.
I said it was a murder mystery.
"Oh," she said, unable to hide her disappointment, "why would you want to write about murder?"
Why indeed.
The…
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Pesach Musings
I am not playing much music lately. There are plenty of musicians who are. I can’t bring myself to pick up the guitar most days. So I am posting some thoughts here instead.
Passover is one of the…
Read moreIt's been a while...
It's been a while since I've made music for anyone but myself; 2017 has been a very tough year.
I've been living with Rheumatoid Arthritis since 2000, and I had a few good years of playing my guitar every…
Read moreHanukkah 2015 is almost here!
It's hard to believe that Hanukkah is less than 100 days away! It seems like it was yesterday that we were hustling to finish recording and release "With This Flame" for Hanukkah 2014!
I have begun a campaign…Read more
I have begun a campaign…Read more