Badger & Watson Dean Street Flat Diorama

It was a Covid project. I kept seeing ads for these this bookshelf dioramas, and while still on Facebook in those days (don’t look for me on Fascistbook anymore! And why are YOU still on it?), I ordered one called “The Eternal Bookstore” but decided to modify it by making it into my An Irregular … Read more

Author Lorie Lewis Ham and the Importance of Sherlock Holmes

Lorie and I have been friends for some years, though we seldom see each other in the wild because I live in southern California and she lives in the Central Valley. But the mystery writing world, being what it is, connects us in all sorts of ways. She is the creator and has been running … Read more

Chastity Belts and Iron Maidens

I’ve been talking about medieval myths for some time now, that is, those tired saws that many people believe about the Middle Ages. And they keep showing up, even on Bluesky. Two of my personal favorites have got to be chastity belts and iron maidens. Though they sound like something that would go together, trust … Read more

Female Journalists in Late 19th Century London

“A lady journalist, it is reported, has been informing an interviewer, that she makes by her profession, and by working no more than an hour and a half everyday, the very respectable income of a thousand pounds a year…a thousand pounds a year! Hark! Do you hear? It is the frou-frou of a hundred thousand … Read more

Keeping it Clean in the Middle Ages

Back in the days before I was published and I was trying to peddle my own brand of medieval mysteries to agents, I came upon an astonishing bias. One agent rejected my manuscript because she couldn’t get past the notion that my protagonist would be intimate with someone with all that “lack of hygiene.” She … Read more

Two Series, Moving to Indie Publishing

An embarrassment of riches, I suppose it could be called. Having two series going at once. That’s where I am now. My publisher “paused” both these series, and says they want to publish more. Eventually. But I decided that dealing with publishers right now was pretty much over. Nice people, they mean well, but have … Read more

“Show Bible” Concept to Prevent Embarrassing Boo-Boo’s in Your Series

A Guest Blog Post by Author Rosalind Barden    When I embarked on writing the second book in my 1930s cozy noir “Sparky of Bunker Hill Mystery” series, THE CANNIBAL CAPER, I didn’t think I’d have a problem remembering what the characters looked like in the first book, THE COLD KID CASE, the location descriptions, … Read more

Audiobook Narrator Noah James Butler

Welcome, everyone. I have been looking forward to this! Today we are talking to the man I call “Man of a Thousand Voices.” And I’m not kidding. I “met” Noah when I decided to create some audiobooks from my self-published books; the Enchanter Chronicles Trilogy, and then a spin-off from the Booke of the Hidden … Read more

Jeri Westerson

Author of Medieval Mysteries, Historicals, and Paranormals

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