INTERVIEW WITH MADDIE DAY
Cozy mysteries are village based with a sleuth who isn’t a professional crime solver, and justice is always restored at the end. You won’t read obscenities, see much violence, or come across anything explicitly sexual. (There’s certainly romance, but they shut the bedroom door before it gets too exciting…) Fans become attached to the series characters and are eager to revisit them in subsequent books.
INTERVIEW WITH RONALD H. BALSON
I wrote this book quote by Ada, “Perhaps the most hurtful and inimical result of the campaign was the pervasive acceptance of Nazi policies by German society…it became apparent that they would no longer stand up for us. Those who uttered hateful speech were sinful, but the greater sin was committed by those who did not speak at all.”
PET SPOTLIGHT: JD ALLEN
Collecting is sometimes an accidental thing. My mother-in-law had a set of curtains above her kitchen sink with chickens printed on them and the next thing she knew every holiday people were giving her chicken shit. Not chicken shit, but chicken shaped and decorated knickknacks. It got weird. Did you know there was a chicken Chia head?
