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Partings are bittersweet, but this one hits us in the heart a bit more. One of our founding members, Terry Odell, has left our ranks. She was the impetus behind creating a group of authors in a “lifeboat,” and since our inception has guided the ship. We’ve weathered storms in publishing houses and an ever-changing market dynamic and through it all, we relied on Terry to be our Captain. Her indelible stamp of forthrightness, diligence, and can-do remains with us and we will try to live up to her ideals. We wish you well, Terry. So long but not goodbye.
Please join us in welcoming cozy author Lois Winston as our newest Booklover’s Bench author. She’s been published since 2006, with sixteen novels in a variety of genres, including seven Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mysteries and two Empty Nest Mysteries. She has also written four mystery novellas. Lois is a champion of authors, often featuring them on her blog, Killer Crafts and Crafty Killers, and she’s been the driving force behind the successful Sleuthing Women anthologies. She’ll be featured on our Let’s Talk page later this month and we hope you will drop by to leave Lois a personalized welcome. Read more about Lois here.
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Nancy J. Cohen has reissued KILLER KNOTS, #9 in the Bad Hair Day Mysteries, in a revised Author’s Edition in print and ebook formats.
Debra H. Goldstein will be a “Mystery in the Midlands” panelist on June 22.
Cheryl Hollon will be on a panel titled “Why I Write the Kind of Mysteries I Write” on June 29th at the 2019 Mystery Fest Key West conference.
Diane A.S. Stuckart will speak on “How I got Started as a Mystery Writer” at the 2019 Mystery Fest Key West conference at the end of June.
Maggie Toussaint will be a “Mystery in the Midlands” panelist on June 22.
Lois Winston, in her alternate role as semi-retired literary agent, recently negotiated a 3-book deal for The Alaska Diner Mysteries by Camille Minichino (writing as Elizabeth Logan) with Berkley Prime Crime.
