Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Angela M. Sanders! Writes: I write cozy mysteries loaded with atmosphere, humor, and magic. My latest series, the Witch Way Librarian mysteries, features librarian Josie Way, who fled the Library of Congress for podunk Wilfred, Oregon. In Wilfred, not only did she find a new home in the servants’ quarters of a Victorian mansion-turned-library, but she also discovered that books talked to her—and that was only the beginning. With the help of her black cat Rodney and a cast of quirky townspeople, her newly discovered lineage as a powerful witch with a yen for justice has blossomed. About: I love vintage crime novels, 1930s movies, thunderstorms, gardenias, icy martinis, and gothic architecture. If I have a gift outside of storytelling, it’s the ability to root out good stuff at thrift stores. That and reading tarot cards. I’m still working on fulfilling my dream of becoming Nancy Drew, although my ancient Corolla falls way short of her roadster and my skill with morse code needs…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Darci Hannah!   Writes: I cut my teeth writing Scottish historical fiction, but now I’m indulging my passion for cozy mysteries by writing the Beacon Bakeshop Mystery Series. My third book in the series, MURDER AT THE BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL, will be out on July 26th. What is a cozy mystery you ask? To me it’s a lot like visiting a favorite, welcoming, happy place. I set my cozy mystery series in the beautiful yet fictitious lakeside village of Beacon Harbor, Michigan. It’s such a delightful place that I (and hopefully readers) want to visit it again and again. The characters in cozy mysteries can be a bit quirky, but often they’re a hoot. They’re they type of people you want to hang out with and invite to dinner, because you know the conversations are going to be entertaining. I love writing feisty, interesting, and endearing protagonists. I also delight in giving them a host of interesting family and friends who both challenge and help…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Gabby Allan! Writes: One of my favorite things in life is that I get to have an absolute blast bringing readers the blend of RomCozies – traditional murder mysteries with a rom com twist that’s sure to make you laugh and sigh in delight, all while trying to figure out whodunnit. Hopefully not before me since that would ruin the fun or our race to the finish! About: Just to give you a little taste––island life, chaos, golf carts galore, and tricky murderers fill my head as I do my best to bring laughter, escape, and a story that makes you forget to make dinner and/or go to bed on time. I used to enjoy long walks on the beach, but since I’m now living in the middle of Pennsylvania they’re no longer as accessible as when I lived in California. Now my life is mostly filled with recapturing those long-gone times on the page and praying my curly hair won’t completely go rogue…

For me, the spice of life is good food and trying new things. The author I’m interviewing today brings both of those experiences to the table—and it’s a table loaded with good recipes and fantastic writing. Yum! Like many mystery readers, Lucy Burdette caught my eye with her hit Key West Food Critic Mystery series. Her character’s growth is fully developed and insightful, not to mention she’s got a drop-dead gorgeous setting and recipes! (Did I already say yum?) To top that off, she’s willing to step off the ledge and go for something new—dark even and utterly fantastic. As a book critic, I know what I like, and I love her new endeavor into the thriller category. Take a chance, enjoy another great Key West Food Critic cozy mystery with A DISH TO DIE FOR– and then go for not an edge of your seat suspense, but a narrow escape from the edge of the dock spine chiller in her UNSAFE HAVEN crime thriller. It’s a leap you will love!   Kym: Hi Lucy, welcome to the Cozy Corner! Lucy: Thanks so much for the invitation!   Kym: You have two books releasing within a couple weeks of each…

What’s the recipe for a fun mystery? When I was writing MINT CHOCOLATE MURDER I decided to indulge myself and add an ingredient I’ve been dying to use for ages. I’ve always wanted to set a murder in a moody haunted castle! Here’s a list of some of the other ingredients in my newest Ice Cream Shop mystery – I hope you’ll enjoy it.   M – Mysterious supermodel with a royal secret I – Ice cream social to die for N – New England village of your Hallmark dreams T – Teashops and treachery   C – Crafty clues and red herrings H – Haunted Scottish castle O – Obsessions turned deadly C – Cat who needs therapy O – One hot veterinarian L – Locked room mystery A – Art world gossip T – Tantalizing twists E – Enemies and frenemies   M – Malicious suspects U – Unrequited love R – Race against the clock D – Danger in the dungeon E – Extra sprinkles! R – Riley Rhodes, my main character, an ice cream shop manager and former CIA librarian with plenty of secrets of her own MINT CHOCOLATE MURDER by Meri Allen Ice Cream Shop #2 Riley…

Hello! Leslie Langtry here to tell you about my book MUNCHIES AND MURDER – book #23 in the Merry Wrath cozy comedy series! The books can be read in any order, but if you want to start at the beginning, there’s MERIT BADGE MURDER. Merry Wrath was a CIA agent undercover with a Chechen strongman when the Vice President ‘accidentally’ outted her on CNN to get back at her senator dad. After a close call escape that included an armed chicken, Merry retired to her hometown of Who’s There, Iowa, where her best friend convinces her to start a Girl Scout troop. In some ways, Merry often wonders if life was less dangerous in the CIA than with this very precocious group of little girls. Too bad bodies keep popping up at inconvenient times. Here’s a little bit about MUNCHIES AND MURDER:   M is for Merry Wrath – an ‘accidentally’ outted ex-CIA agent who moves back to Who’s There, Iowa, starts a Girl Scout Troop and stumbles upon more dead bodies than any random jogger on any tv mystery series.   U is for Unusual as this book is pretty weird. Seriously…this may be the weirdest book I’ve written,…

I’m a writer, and it won’t surprise you to learn that I loved reading from a very young age.. I graduated quickly from children’s books to adolescent fare (Nancy Drew was my first binge-reading experience, though I had to wait weeks or even months until someone gave me a present of the next few books in the series. How poignant was the longing for things, in that age before the Internet and downloadable books! Soon enough, Nancy Drew seemed too adolescent, and I started observing what my mother read. She liked the Gothic romances, and I started borrowing them after she was finished. In these novels, I got my first glimpse of extended and exciting dialogue. Characters would speak to each other—at length—and their conversations were compelling, even addictive. I recall reading a Victoria Holt novel with a dialogue that lasted for five or six pages, with no dialogue tags! She knew that well-written dialogue was enough to draw in a reader. Not only was I able to follow these back and forth, but I was utterly pulled in, as though I were eavesdropping on a real conversation. Holt’s characters were memorable enough that I would think about them long…

1–What is the title of your latest release? A COLD NOSE FOR MURDER.  It’s the third book in my Chatty Corgi mystery series.   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A banker turned baker and her charming corgi sidekick solve crime and bake cake in a Cornish seaside village.   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I’d visited Cornwall while researching another project and had a wonderful time.  So, I based my village of Trevena on the village I’d stayed in.   4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Absolutely.  She’d bring cake and make tea.   5–What are three words that describe your hero? Since my hero’s a corgi, I’ll have to say sweet, furry and zoomy.   6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? Since one of my point of view characters is a dog, I had to learn a lot about dog behavior and how dogs experience the world.   7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I always edit as I draft.  It helps keep me grounded in the details of the story.   8–What’s your favorite foodie…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Laura Bradford! Writes: Cozy mysteries and women’s fiction about people that could easily be you or me.   About: While spending a rainy afternoon at a friend’s house when I was a kid, I absolutely fell in love with writing over a stack of blank paper, a box of crayons, and a freshly sharpened number-two pencil. From that moment forward, I only wanted to be two things, a mom and a writer. Today, I’m the USA Today bestselling author of several mystery series including the Amish Mysteries, the Emergency Dessert Squad Mysteries, the Tobi Tobias Mysteries, the Southern Sewing Circle Mysteries (written as Elizabeth Lynn Casey), and now the new A Friend for Hire Mysteries. A PERILOUS PAL, book # 2 in the series, releases July 5th. To learn more about me and/or my books, visit my website at  laurabradford.com.   What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match: Someone who likes to laugh. Someone who likes to feel all the feels and doesn’t apologize for doing so. Someone who loves…

1–What is the title of your latest release? DEATH BY BUBBLE TEA 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Two cousins with opposite personalities, forced to run a food stall together at a local night market, get a serving of murder. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I love night markets and live in Los Angeles, so I combined the two for the fictional Eastwood Village Night Market setting. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? For sure! I’d hang out with both cousins…although maybe not when they stumble over dead bodies. I’d certainly tag along on their outings to visit hidden Los Angeles attractions, though. 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Yale Yee: filial, bookish, and curious 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? That there was a California lawsuit against silver dragées (those metallic balls used for decorating cakes and cookies). 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? Apart from minor word choices, I wait until I’m totally done—and then a lot of revising happens! 8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence? Hawaiian chocolate dobash cake: a chocolate chiffon cake with…