I am trying to get something done that I thought for sure that I would have done by the end of 2007. Several readers of the site have told me about authors I didn’t know about, who look like authors we (cozy mystery readers) might enjoy. Unfortunately, I still have fourteen authors on my "To Do Next" list, nine authors on my "To Do After To Do Next" list, and thirty eight "Other Authors" to do after I finish the previous two categories! Lots of authors!!!

Of course, the above lists don’t take into account the new authors who you all might recommend for the site at a later time… But, I today I was able to look up the following three authors who look like a lot of fun:

Melissa Glazer‘s Fire at Will pottery shop is the setting for her Clay & Crime Mystery Series. 

Cricket McRae‘s Homecrafting Mystery Series‘ main character is Sophie Mae Reynolds, who happens to be a soap-maker/sleuth.

 Kathryn R. Wall writes the Bay Tanner Mystery Series which is set in the Hilton Head Island area. Bay is a financial planner…

I just added four new authors to the Cozy Mystery Site’s pages. They are all authors who I just found out about…. Barbara Allan, Candy Calvert, Sally Goldenbaum, and Natalie M. Roberts. (Thanks to you, the Cozy Mystery Site’s Readers!)

Barbara Allan is a husband and wife writing team who write the Trash n’ Treasure Mystery Series.

Candy Calvert, along with being the author of the Darcy Cavanaugh Cruise Mystery Series, is also an RN. Is it any wonder that she writes a mystery series that takes place on a cruise ship…. while her sleuth is an RN?

And, for you cozy quilters…. Sally Goldenbaum writes the Queen Bees Quilt Mystery Series.

Also, if you are the proud parent of a child who enjoys/takes dance classes…. Natalie M. Roberts writes the Jenny T. Partridge Dance Mystery Series.

I am currently listening to Ann Granger‘s last Markby and Mitchell Village Whodunit Mystery, and I am sick about it! I know that I have mentioned (several times) about how I hate to "catch up" with my favorite authors. I try to leave a few books in my TBR (To Be Read) pile so that I have some books to really look forward to. But, since I read my books faster (just barely!) than an author writes his/her books, invariably, there comes a day when I "level out" with the author. 

The latest author who simply isn’t writing fast enough for me is Ann Granger. I waited and waited to finally read her fifteenth Markby & Mitchell novel (That Way Murder Lies), but I finally broke down and started listening to it…. and could simply not put it down (or should I say "turn it off"?!?) I now have only a few chapters until I will no longer have "an Ann Granger" to look forward to…

I was so delighted when I found that audible.com carried her novels. I quickly purchased them (unabridged, of course!) and gave my TBR "real books" to my library for other connoisseurs of wonderful books to enjoy. And, as excited as I was to get the books "on tape"… I was even more excited when I heard Judith Boyd’s phenomenal reading of the books. (She’s right up there with my other favorite book narrators.)

Perhaps I should take a more positive view of this…. a glass half full approach… a silver lining in the clouds… Nope! Doggone it…. Why can’t my favorite authors just write faster!?!