by Lauren Vancouver, pet rescuer, whose adventures are memorialized in the Pet Rescue Mysteries by Linda O. Johnston
Hello. I’m Lauren Vancouver. I was here on Killer Characters in January, before the first of my adventures, BEAGLEMANIA, was released. The second, THE MORE THE TERRIER, will be available starting this week.
I have to [...]

I sometimes envy those authors whose books are centered in New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles. They describe neighborhoods and toss out street names and locations like a poker dealer throwing out the new hands to the players. Of course, if those authors live in those cities, then the familiarity is understood. For me, though, [...]

During my bachelor days in New York City, I spent many a meal sitting at a table alone, without ever giving it a second thought. I was never lonely; in fact, I often preferred eating alone. The words “table for one” never frightened me – until, that is, I appeared at my first [...]

A while ago, one of my friends directed me to a particular blog where an author conceded to do a guest post. He started out by saying how he didn’t grant interviews anymore because he’d become successful enough to not want to do them and didn’t want to answer the same questions asked so many [...]

Welcome today’s guest, Linda O. Johnston.
BEAGLEMANIA arrives the day after tomorrow!
No, it’s not a rendition of classic rock music with a misspelled twist. That’s the title of my first Pet Rescue Mystery, a spinoff series from my Kendra Ballantyne, Pet-Sitter Mystery series from Berkley Prime Crime.
Before I tell you more about BEAGLEMANIA, I’d like [...]

Thanks to Jeff for hosting Peg’s Blog Crawl today. Friday’s post, “Read It Aloud” is at http://www. Cobbledstones.com. Prizes for preceding weeks are announced on my blog, http://itsamysterytomepegherring.blogspot.com
The Post – What About Contractions?

Americans sometimes think we invented contractions somewhere in the 1950s. Maybe it’s the fault of old westerns, maybe it was WEST SIDE STORY. [...]

Although VISIONS OF MAGIC is the first book by Regan Hastings, it’s far from the author’s first book. As Maureen Child, she has been nominated six times for the prestigious RITA award from Romance Writers of America. Her romance novels have appeared many times on the USA TODAY bestsellers list. VISIONS OF MAGIC is Book [...]

A few weeks ago I was at a dinner party where the host mentioned aloud that I’d recently written a mystery novel with a Latina character as the protagonist. One intrigued guest asked how it was that I, an Anglo man, could credibly create a Mexican-American woman for the lead.

It was a question I’d asked [...]

One of my favorite quotes is “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read” by Groucho Marx, a quote I love not just because it’s funny, but because it combines two of my favorite things: books and dogs.
I’ve been accused of being [...]

Question 18: Have you ever thought of writing in other genres or other forms (e.g., screenplays, poetry, plays)?
First, my thanks to all the authors here at The Little Blog of Murder for hosting me during my blog tour. In answer to your question, I have most definitely thought about writing in other genres and other [...]