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A Fairy Tale Life
“Why can’t my life be a fairy tale?” It’s the refrain of every heroine in every romance novel and movie. Or—why limit ourselves?—it’s in every novel on the shelf and movie streaming through the interwebs. What they mean is, “I want to skip to the Happily Ever After.” They want to wake up/have their life…
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Killer Coffee
I make a cold brew coffee with honey, lavender syrup, and almond milk every morning. And not a small one, either. Large. Very Large. My coffee–doctored with almond milk, honey, and lavender syrup–sits next to me while I work on the administrative part of being a writer. I sip at it as I reply to…
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Malice and Gardening
This weekend was Malice Domestic and the Agatha Awards. Malice Domestic is a conference celebrating traditional mysteries, cozies, and softer thrillers and noir novels. Malice has the reputation for being *only* for cozy mysteries, or viewing mysteries only through a cozy lens. But, really, it’s for every genre under the mystery umbrella. If you write…
Mindy Carlson 