So, I have been trying to update my authors’ chronological book lists on the site, and it is going rather slowly… I have finally worked my way up to (but not yet including) Nancy Atherton. Yep, that’s right… but at least I am towards the end of the A list! I have only come up with one new book for one of "my authors" (Susan Albert Wittig) and I have absolutely no idea how I missed that 2007 release! 

One of the drawbacks to a site like this is that I have to become aware of (what seems like) a jillion new releases. I was recently very pleasantly surprised when one of "my authors" wrote to tell me about a new book that she is putting out so that I could update my list. That sure made my life a whole lot easier!

I would be remiss to not say that if you see one of your authors on the site who I haven’t updated, I’d love to hear from you! Believe me, I don’t think of myself as the "last word specialist with all-knowing powers"!!!  Actually, I have heard from a couple different site viewers who have let me know of "updates" for some of my authors. That is always appreciated!

Well, I think I have taken a long enough break… I am going to go update Nancy Atherton‘s book list…..

I guess you could say that I have (again) gotten the bug to add new cozy mystery writers to the site…. which is not to say that these authors are new to writing cozies… they are just new to me.

Every once in a while I get a cozy mystery author’s name from a viewer who I have just got to add to my list of authors, even though I haven’t read that particular author yet. Some of the authors might be new to you, too!

I really appreciate the recommendations from viewers of the site. When I first started reading cozy mysteries… years ago… I had a very difficult time coming up with new authors to try. I have to admit to being disappointed with a new author several times, but, I have been pleasantly pleased with many of the authors I try.

Unfortunately for me, as this site takes more and more of my time, I find that I am reading less and less. (What’s that movie title?… Something’s Gotta Give …)

As I was looking up the authors today, I found myself wondering how I had missed reading some of these authors… Why hadn’t I heard of them before?!? 

These are the authors I just posted today:

Lori Avocato… the Pauline Sokol Mystery series
Dana Cameron… the Emma Fielding series
Caroline Cousins… three cousins (together) write this series about cousin sleuths
Peggy Darty… the Cozy Mystery series
Alesia Holliday…the December Vaughn Mystery series
Rita Lakin… the Gladdy Gold series
Martha C. Lawrence… the Elizabeth Chase Mystery series
Peg Marberg… the Interior Design series   
Stefanie Matteson… the Charlotte Grahame Mystery series
Susan McBride… the Debutante Dropout series
Suzanne Price… Grime Solvers Mystery series
Wendy Corsi Staub… not cozy, but her mysteries look very good…
Winona Sullivan… the Sister Cecile Mystery series

I received two e-mails from a site viewer (while I was on vacation) that have been on my mind. He visited my web site, and was able to find some new authors he might try reading, but he also sought some help in finding an author (or two) he had "misplaced."  I feel really badly because I am not able to help him come up with the possible authors. He wasn’t able to provide me with enough clues to help narrow down the possibilities.

This started me thinking about an author I read several years ago, but who I didn’t annotate, and now can’t seem to remember… All I do know is that I’d really like to read her again. I just don’t remember enough of the the book to be able to give much of a description. (This is one of the reasons I started compiling my lists of authors!)

If you are reading this blog, and have a cozy mystery author whose name you can’t remember…. please feel free to send me a comment (which can be done by hitting the "Comment" button right under the faint gray line right under this particular blog.) I will try to address your author’s series’ description (that you give to me) in a future blog, and perhaps, we can come up with your "lost" author. Obviously, the more clues you provide, the better the chances of finding exactly who you are looking for… And, if I am not familiar with your author, hopefully, one of the blog’s readers might know the identity of your sought-after novelist.

Now that I have given this a lot of thought, I think that I will go try to remember some more of my particular book’s details so that I can blog them, and hopefully, with the site’s viewers’ help, find my author.