Sorry for the radio silence, squiders. Turns out I’m having a hard time keeping on top of everything with the release, and some of the other things in my life are getting neglected. So I’m going to go ahead and
Master Plot Series: Mystery
Oho! What have we here? I can hear you saying,”But, Kit, we already did all 7 of the 7 Plot Archetypes! How are we still going?” Christopher Booker, who wrote The Seven Basic Plots, actually has nine plots. He just
Promo: The Message on the 13th Floor by Winter Lawrence
Good morning, squiders! Today I’ve got an excerpt for you from an intriguing sounding novel! (Scroll down to the bottom for the excerpt part.) YA Paranormal Mystery Date Published: May 25, 2021 Publisher: Fire & Ice Young Adult & New
Family Hand-Me-Down Finds: The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
Here’s my book for October! What do you mean it’s a week and a half into November? When my grandmother moved out of her house and into an active adult community two years ago, she got rid of almost everything
Library Book Sale Finds: The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
So, squiders, one of my “resolutions” for the year is to read more of the books I have sitting around. Specifically the books I keep picking up at library book sales. It tickles me eternally that, as an adult, I
The Chocolatier’s Wife/The Chocolatier’s Ghost
Happy Thursday, Squiders! (I’m actually writing this at the beginning of July, so this shall be my farthest scheduled post of all time, ahahaha–I hope everything works!) Today I’m pleased to be the final stop for the tour for The
Library Book Sale Finds: Mrs. McGinty’s Dead
Good afternoon, Squiders! Been a while since we’ve done one of these, hasn’t it? My archives tell me last June. In case you were wondering, I’m still working on the stack of books from the library book sales in summer
Library Book Sale Finds: Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Most of what we grabbed at the library book sales this summer were scifi and fantasy, but I love a good mystery and so I ended up with a fair amount of those as well. And I love Agatha Christie,
Familiarity Breeds Like (and Eventually Hate)
You know when you hear a song on the radio and it’s not really amazing, but you listen to it anyway because it’s too much work to change the station? And as time goes on, you hear it more and
Why Genre is Like Root Beer
When my sister and I were little, whenever we went out to a restaurant where you could get your own soda, we would mix a variety of them together. Sometimes it tasted good, sometimes it tasted horrific, but what remained true, no
