The Good Girls have laid down the law for my guest shot here:
No politics.
No religion.
No drinking the good tequila
No talk of hot monkey love
Which leaves me bereft of my usual blog topics. So I’m forced to write about embarrassing moments. My own, of course, but I hope you’ll join me in this cathartic […]

~First, please accept my warmest thanks for your kind invitation. I first came to this blog due to an invitation form the lovely and talented Ms. Alexander, divine hostess of the Virtual Cocktail Party. So it’s fitting that the subject under discussion for today should be, as they used to say on Jeopardy! , potent […]

Unfortunately, when he called Olé, olé! I had just glanced his way and recognized him. I watched him smile his way toward me and bet he didn’t remember my name.
“How you doing?” he said.
I just knocked it back his way. “How you doing?”
“Good.” He nodded. Marvin had already been half bald when I knew him. […]

I don’t get people sometimes. When the Good Girls asked me to pick up some slack over here to entertain y’all today, my first thought was, “You do know who you’re asking, right? I thought you gals ran a ‘classy’ joint.” And I don’t mean Bohemian brothel classy in smoky Ottoman reds […]

Sarah Stewart Taylor joins us today as our guest blogger. Sarah is the author of the Sweeney St. George mystery series, which features an art history professor who specializes in the study of grave stones. Her latest title is Still As Death and it’s excellent. Enjoy!
It never fails. I arrive to do a reading […]

**Blogging for Laura today is Michelle Becker. Michelle is both a writer and the newly elected president of the St. Louis Chapter of Sisters in Crime. Welcome, Michelle!**
Have you ever been happily writing along when you come to a dead body in the middle of the page, and say to yourself, “Now what?” I […]

Heading for the Malice Domestic Mystery Conference this year? If so you probably already received your ballot for the Agatha Award, and you’re probably trying to remember all the terrific books you read in 2006 and whether any of them are eligible.
Well, the good news is ANY cozy or traditional mystery that was first published […]

I’m staggering around jet-lagged. Thank goodness Alex Sokoloff is here for an encore blog! I promise I’ll be back next week. And I might even be coherent! ~Sara
Feeling The Love
by Alex Sokoloff
For quite a while now I’ve had a love/hate relationship with writing that is heavily weighted toward ‘hate’. Perhaps hate […]

Being a Texas girl myself, I’m partial to Leann Sweeney’s Yellow Rose Mysteries and I’m thrilled she’s guest blogging for us today about shaking things up! ~Sara
Changing Series Characters’ Lives
by Leann Sweeney
As I was writing the fourth book in the Yellow Rose Mystery series (NAL/Signet) I was experiencing a difficult time in my life. I […]

I met Alex Sokoloff at Bouchercon this year where she became an honorary Good Girl as she moderated the Good Girls’ famous (infamous?) Get Unwrapped panel. Alex is back with the Good Girls today as our guest blogger. Enjoy! ~Sara
Under The Influence
By Alex Sokoloff
Okay, here’s a game (since I know how the Good Girls […]