Mary Jane Maffini is the author of the Camilla MacPhee books, the Fiona Silk mysteries and the Charlotte Adams series. Her latest book, Death Loves a Messy Desk: A Charlotte Adams mystery (Berkley Prime Crime) will be out in May 2009. Visit her at

DONIS CASEY was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A third generation Oklahoman, she and her siblings grew up among their aunts and uncles, cousins, grandparents and great-grandparents on farms and in small towns, where they learned the love of family and independent spirit that characterizes the population of that pioneering state. Donis graduated from [...]

Today’s guest blogger, Betty Webb, is the author of DESERT CUT, DESERT WIVES, DESERT RUN, and other mysteries by
Poisoned Pen Press. Starting this month, she has a new series, beginning with THE ANTEATER OF DEATH.

Writing novels is tough. Writing novels is especially tough when you’re already writing full time at a different job.
For 20 [...]

A Lil’ Blog welcome to Lorraine (L.L.) Bartlett, also known as Lorna Barrett
As a wide-eyed, unpublished author, I used to hope and pray some big-name author would discover me and give me a helping hand on the road to publication. Hope is a powerful thing, but in this instance, it was wasted. It [...]

Ken Kuhlken’s stories have appeared in Esquire and dozens of other magazines and anthologies, been honorably mentioned in Best American Short Stories, and earned a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He has been a frequent contributor and a columnist for the San Diego Reader.
His novels are Midheaven, a finalist for the Ernest Hemingway Award [...]

Timothy Hallinan is the author of nine published novels, most recently the highly praised Bangkok thrillers featuring “rough-travel” writer Poke Rafferty and his cobbled-together Thai family. Hallinan also wrote a series of six private-eye novels set in Los Angeles during the 1990s. The current Bangkok book is THE FOURTH WATCHER. Coming next [...]

Ann Littlewood was a zookeeper at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, Oregon, for 12 years, working with a wide variety of mammals and birds. After a stint in corporate America, she is delighted to be back in the zoo world, at least mentally, writing the Iris Oakley mystery series.

Tuesday night, a long improbable chain of [...]

Janis Susan May is proud to be a seventh-generation Texan, one of the founders of RWA and the wife of a Naval Captain recently returned from Iraq. She is currently writing both mystery and romance and has two novels released this year - ECHOES IN THE DARK and SECOND CHANCE.

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A warm welcome to Clea Simon who is filling in for us today. Clea Simon is the author of three nonfiction books, Mad House: Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings (Penguin), Fatherless Women: How We Change After We Lose Our Dads (Wiley), The Feline Mystique: On the Mysterious Connection Between Women [...]

Some time ago your very own Casey Daniels, a long time friend, asked me to guest blog at The Little Blog of Murder. I decided then that since I’m a former Clevelander (12 winters of snow), and my own series, the Ministry is Murder Mysteries, takes place in a small fictional town somewhere in [...]