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  • Flamed Out Jigsaw Puzzle

    This is a jigsaw puzzle post for Flamed Out by Valona Jones (Maggie Toussaint). Have fun piecing together the cover for this week’s featured author. […]

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“Sadie Hawkins Day and Parity in the Mystery World "

Today is Sadie Hawkins Day! This holiday was originally a fictional creation of cartoonist Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin) in his Li’l Abner comic strip. In the cartoon, Hekzebiah Hawkins, afraid his daughter will never land a husband, declares a Sadie Hawkins Day during which she can break the societal norm that a man chases a woman. Under his rules of Sadie Hawkins day, no bachelor in Dogpatch was safe from being pursued (and caught) by Sadie.

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Win Two Free Books – Nov 2025

Contest Run: Nov 1-22, 2025
Win Two Free Books - Nov 2025
Booklovers Bench Nov 2025 Giveaway

  • Enter to win two free books in our monthly contest:

    Maggie Toussaint: Flamed Out, a Magic Candle Shop Mystery, Book 5 – ebook or print (US only)
    Lois Winston: A Stitch to Die For, An Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, Book 5 – ebook or print (US only)

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On The Bench

Authors on the Bench

From a license plate to Robin Williams, our authors have gotten advice from many sources. Whether it’s how to deal with failure to embracing life’s forks in the road to refusing to not sweating the small stuff, our authors have gotten some very good advice. Learn more about the advice that transformed our authors’ lives in this month’s Authors on the Bench.

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Latest News

  • Terry Ambrose

    has just come back from a one-month road trip that began in San Diego and went as far north as Astoria, OR. Foolishly, he thought he could get some writing done while he was gone. He was wrong. The month of November will be spent catching up. He hopes.

  • Nancy J. Cohen

    spoke about her books to the Woman’s Club of Winter Park. She’s continuing to work on her next Bad Hair Day mystery.

  • Debra H. Goldstein

    will spend November finishing and submitting two short stories before concentrating her efforts on learning canasta, playing Mah Jongg, and spending quality time with family and friends.

  • Cheryl Hollon

    is hard at work revising her historical aviation mystery, fine-tuning every detail before it takes flight to a developmental editor.

  • Diane A.S. Stuckart

    is continuing to work on Carot Cats 2.

  • Maggie Toussaint

    is still riding high on the coattails of her October release, Flamed Out, which she wrote under the pen name of Valona Jones. She’s enjoying cooler weather and pondering what comes next.

  • Lois Winston

    will be giving a Zoom presentation on “Dispelling the Myth of the Five Senses” to RWA’s Kiss of Death chapter for their COFFIN series on Nov. 8th.