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When you write a fiction series you need to keep track of a million details. What does each character look like – eye color, hair type, height? Who lives where? How far is it to the ferry dock? What’s the name of the local grocery store? Which characters drink coffee, and which drink tea? The list is endless. There are programs that can help you keep track of all these details, but honestly, in the time I took to enter all the data I’d probably have another book written!

I do keep logs and...

Hi, I’m Valeria! I’m a member of the most fascinating book club ever. In this group, we don’t just read the books, we are whooshed into them and become the amateur sleuths! Puzzles and Premieres was my favorite book ever. We traveled to a ski town that hosted a famous film festival.

The setting was amazing! The town was surrounded by snowcapped mountains, ski resorts, and lush forests. The downtown area featured many wonderful movie theaters, and oh, my gosh! At night it was lit up with the...

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Good afternoon and thank you for hosting me today. I am Dr. Atticus Papadopoulos. I’m a professor and doctor of astrobiology; my major area of interest is extraterrestrial technology. I’m a member of a fascinating book club that journeys into cozy mystery books that are part of a massive collection held in an enchanted library. I am often sharing a bit of knowledge with our book club group about the various places to which we travel.

In this particular book journey, Puzzles and Premieres,...

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I haven't checked my author page in a while. It shows the number of Kindle pages read for all my cozy mysteries. Imagine my shock when I realized that over TEN MILLION pages have been read by real live people!!!! What a thrill that is for me!

I LOVE my job - I LOVE writing mysteries - and I LOVE all my readers! You guys are the reason I keep doing what I'm doing. Your emails, your reviews, your kind support means the world to me. I want to say Thank you - it's because of you that the magical...

When I embarked on writing my first novel, I was excited to know that I was my own boss, and I could write whatever I wanted and make all my own decisions. But I was shocked to discover that was not entirely true. . .

I was deep into writing a scene in my first book way back then, and my main character was heading out for a day-long mountain hike with a friend. I felt that I needed to have a third person along for the adventure. I spent a day pondering the right choice of character to fill...

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~ Take a journey through a magic mirror to an enchanted land.

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What if you fell through a mirror into an enchanted world and met a magical family you never knew you had? That’s what happened to me. And now I’m trapped. Well, trapped isn’t a very nice word for such an amazing place, but that’s the truth of it.

What it’s like to wake up on the other side of the mirror? Find out in this excerpt from Falling into Magic, book one in the Destiny Falls...

Join a book club that's trapped inside a book! They become characters when the mystery comes to life. It’s all fun and games – until they learn they must solve the crime to escape the book.

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Here’s an Excerpt from Shifting and Shenanigans, Magical Mystery Book Club #1:

“Why the confusion?” The sleek Siamese jumped back up on the chair and tilted his head at us. “Pffft. It’s like you’ve never heard a talking cat before.”

We continued to stare at him.

“Cat...

If you had to define your books in ten separate words, what would they be?

Escape, Fun, Cozy, Spooky, Whimsical, Paranormal, Magical, Welcoming, Safe, Kind.

Have any of your scenes made you cry?

One of the ongoing storylines in my Eternal Rest Bed and Breakfast paranormal cozy mysteries is that my main character, Emily, lost her husband in a car accident that happened under odd circumstances. Emily has always wanted answers about what really happened, and she’s convinced Scott’s ghost should be...

In the Magical Mystery Book Club series, the group gets to travel into mystery books and live the entire experience first-hand. They find the dead body (yeah, some of the members don’t like that part!), they figure out the suspects, and they solve the mystery. Since the club can travel into any book from their cozy mystery library, there are thousands of choices where I can place the setting of these adventures! That’s where my fun begins. They travel to small towns, take voyages on cruise...

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One of the unexpected joys of being an author is finding a fan out there in the world randomly. Not at a conference or a lecture, but when you’re living your everyday life and stumble upon a reader. Here is one of those moments that I’ll always remember.

We were at my son’s baseball game when an officer approached the stands. I was sitting in the front row near the middle, when she walked up to the woman seated at the end.

“I found a wallet in the parking lot,” she said. “I thought it might...

"Surprising twists kept this plot moving along, with heaps of red herrings thrown in. There is gentle humor that springs from the characterizations. The settings are gorgeously described, with plenty of attention to detail, so they can be imagined in the reader’s mind. Pantley does a fine job of making her talking animal creatures so life-like that even readers who don’t normally enjoy magical realism will be swayed."

This was a such a delightful read!

5 stars = "it was amazing”

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Check out this scene from my new release: Critters & Crimes!

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(Originally done by Dollcas at Great Escapes Book Tours.)

Hi Elizabeth. Tell us a little bit about yourself and how you began writing cozy mystery books.

I spent twenty years as a parent educator writing and lecturing about raising babies and young children. When my youngest graduated college, and my first grandchild entered kindergarten I decided to make a leap and write the cozy mystery novel I’d always dreamed of writing. That was years ago. Once I started writing cozy mysteries, I realized...

I take a daily walk around my neighborhood. I like the fresh air and exercise, and I enjoy looking at the different homes and landscaping. The other day, I saw an old blue car parked on the street. Something about it made me suspicious. I’m not sure whether it was how it was parked, where it was parked, or how it looked. Probably a combination of all that.

Then, I questioned myself. As a writer of mysteries, was I just creating a story over a regular old parked car? I turned around and walked...