HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN: Do any of you grow tomatoes?Should they tomatoes be ready now?We planted them, just as we usually do, not as many as in previous years, but whatever. And we usually plant Sun Golds, which are those little orange cherry
Did you enter the JUNGLE RED GIVEAWAY? Winner announced below!HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN: It’s topical not only because the trade paperback of ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS comes out tomorrow--see how cool?-- but there's a whole sea change about paperba…
RHYS BOWEN: My new baby book, THE CASTLE IN THE GLEN, is now two days old. I’ve had some lovely feedback already including a review that says “Rhys Bowen knocks it out of the park again.” Not bad, huh?This story centers around a castle on a…
HALLIE EPHRON: Earlier this summer, The New York Times published Sadie Stein's list of her "10 best escapist" mystery novels from the Golden Age (generally the period between the two world wars), capable of getting a reader hooked on the my…
Jenn McKinlay: At long last, the release of the adaptation of my book Paris is Always a Good Idea is here. I wish I could find the words to tell you what this means to me, but I've tried for months and I can't. It's just beyond my comprehen…
JENN McKINLAY: As you can see, we are giving away SEVEN books to one lucky reader! Click this link – GIVEAWAY – to enter to win the six books shown plus one mystery book! FREE BOOKS, ya’ll, does it get any better? No, it does not!Now being
JULIA SPENCER-FLEMING: Dear readers, this is a post I never wanted to write. After a valiant 17-month fight with a particularly aggressive form of Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma, our dear Celia passed away. Her family had been with her, and frien…
JULIA SPENCER-FLEMING: Hi everyone! To paraphrase Taylor Swift, hi, it's me, I'm the technical difficulties, it's me. Everyone loved Hank's prompt - bless you, Hank, for leaping to my rescue - so I'm just going to add a few things and throw…
DEBORAH CROMBIE: You may have notice that I've been very mum about the progress of the latest Duncan and Gemma book (Kincaid/James#20) recently. But I do have NEWS!!I finally, finally turned in the manuscript on the 2nd of June (a Tuesday--…
Good morning Jungle Reds! This is me, Lucy, popping in to remind you that my Key West food critic mystery #16, A DELICIOUS DECEPTION is in bookstores today! You can order it here. It's been so interesting to read all kinds of reactions to t…
DEBORAH CROMBIE: How did it get to be midsummer already??? But here we are full on in the season of beach reads, so I thought it was time for a "What We're Reading" check in. I have not been the reading poster girl lately–although, come to
LUCY BURDETTE: At the end of my 15th Key West food critic mystery, THE MANGO MURDERS, my food critic sleuth Hayley Snow turns up pregnant. I hadn’t planned this, and to be fair, neither had she. But I had the sneaking suspicion that this bo…