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…

1–What is the title of your latest release? MURDER ALWAYS BARKS TWICE, it’s the second in my “Chatty Corgi” mystery series set in the village of Trevena in Cornwall. 2–What is it about? The organizer of a local literary festival is found dead, and Emma Reed and her irrepressible corgi sidekick, Oliver, are caught up in the murder investigation. There’s mystery, family secrets, romance, old grudges, a grand old house, and lots of cake. 3–What do you love about the setting of your book?  Trevena is based on Tintagel, which is a village I visited while I was in Cornwall researching another book. I fell in love with the Cornish coast on that trip, so I was really excited to be able to set a mystery series there. 4–How did your main character(s) surprise you?  The big surprise as I wrote these books was Oliver, my “chatty corgi.” When my editor came to me and asked for a series with an actual talking dog, I was more than a little uncertain. It took a while to get a feel for Oliver’s personality, and his voice. At first, I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to make him work…