Cozy Ink Podcast

This session of the Cozy Ink Podcast Summer Conference 2020 features an interview with cozy mystery author Andrea J. Johnson. We discuss the topic of Writing Dialogue.

Andrea J. Johnson is a freelance entertainment writer for the women’s lifestyle website Popsugar. Her love for insider gossip has led her to take real-life headlines and turn them into mind-bending mysteries. Her debut cozy mystery novel, Poetic Justice, finds inspiration in Delaware’s 2014 drug lab scandal and uses Andrea’s background as a court reporter to explore what would happen if the trial’s stenographer took the law into her own hands.

In addition to being a writer, Andrea is a certified shorthand reporter for the State of California and a member of the National Court Reporters Association. She currently resides on the Delmarva Peninsula near the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, which is the backdrop for her new series. She is also a member of Mystery Writers of America, Romance Writers of America, and the Eastern Shore Writers Association. Moreover, she holds a copyediting certification from UC San Diego and an M.F.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University.

She has also written several articles on the craft of writing for such websites such as LitReactor, Funds for Writers, and DIY MFA. When Andrea isn’t developing her stories, she enjoys cuddling up with a piping hot mug of ginger tea and poring over the latest supermarket tabloids.

Andrea's Victoria Justice mystery series features a female amateur sleuth and court stenographer who must face her nemesis and solve a suspicious death. Titles in the series include Poetic Justice.
 
Andrea's books are available in ebook and print editions.

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This session of the Cozy Ink Podcast Summer Conference 2020 features an interview with cozy mystery author Laina Turner. We discuss the topic of Writing as a Business.

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As a child, Laina thought she would either be a truck driver (thanks to Jerry Reed in Smokey and the Bandit) or work at Taco Bell (her favorite restaurant as a child). As she grew older, she realized her talents lay in other areas, and for the last several years has been a college professor teaching business and English.

She decided to follow her dream as an author in 2009 and has worked her way up to having 5 fans (maybe 6 now). She often tells her family and friends that no one is safe from his or her ventures slipping into her books. Her blog, In Pursuit of Fabulous, was launched to share the daily fun in her life as a Real Midlife Housewife of the Midwest.

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This episode of Cozy Ink Podcast features an interview with cozy mystery author Ginger Bolton. We discuss her Deputy Donut cozy mystery series. Ginger also writes as Janet Bolin, and we briefly discuss her Threadville Mystery series. 

Ginger's Deputy Donut mystery novels feature a female amateur sleuth, her cat, and her donut shop. Titles in the series include Survival of the Fritters, Goodbye Cruller World, Jealousy Filled Donuts, Boston Scream Murder, Beyond a Reasonable Donut, and Deck the Donuts.

Books in her Threadville mystery series written as Janet Bolin include Dire Threads, Threaded for Trouble, Thread and Buried, Night of the Living Thread, and Seven Threadly Sins.

Ginger's books are available in ebook and print editions with select titles available in audiobook format.

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In this episode of the Cozy Ink Podcast,  I interview Shawn Reilly Simmons, head of registrations and public relations for Malice Domestic and More Than Malice. We chat about the new exciting virtual festival, More Than Malice, and all that it offers to both mystery fans and authors.

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