It’s been quite some time since I added new authors to the site… well, there won’t be any major site releases this week, so I thought today would be a good day for that!

Esme Addison is originally from Raleigh, North Carolina, and she’s returned there after a long stint away in various locations such as New York and Japan as a military spouse. She has spent much of that time in writing, both as a technical writer and as a professional in the publishing industry. Her series, the Enchanted Bay Mystery Series, stars another North Carolina native who is returning home to help work at her family’s business in herbal remedies.

Eve Calder is a Florida native. Her series, the Cookie House Mystery Series, stars a Manhattan native who is starting over as a baker’s assistant in Coral Cay, Florida.

 

 

 

Alexis Morgan is a graduate from the University of Missouri, St. Louis, with a bachelor’s in English. She is the author of many novels, mostly in the romance and paranormal genres, with only one Cozy Mystery series, the Abby McCree Mystery Series, which stars a recent divorce inheriting a rundown estate from her deceased aunt – with at least one body buried on the premises!

Holly Quinn is a graduate from the Carroll University in Wisconsin with a Bachelor’s in Science. She is the author of the Handcrafted Mystery Series, starring a woman returning to her hometown in Wisconsin to take over a craft shop.

Well, it’s been quite some time since I’ve mentioned new authors, but I have been adding here and there in the background… here are a few more that I definitely feel are worth putting up on the front page instead!

First up is a bit of a cheat, but still a new page I added… Bree Baker, who is going to be more familiar to Cozy readers already as Jacqueline Frost, Julie Chase, and Julie Anne Lindsey. Well, she’s added a fourth name to her list, as well as the Seaside Cafe Mystery Series, which stars Everly Swan, the owner of an iced tea shop and cafe on the beach of Charm, North Carolina. The name change slipped past me for a bit, so I thought I’d mention it to anyone who hadn’t noticed yet either.

Libby Klein grew up in New Jersey in the ’80s, was a stay-at-home-mom, and is now a grandmother. She is also the vice president of a technology company, and now lives in northern Virginia. Klein is the author of the Poppy McAllister Mystery Series, which stars Poppy McAllister, owner of a gluten-free baking business in Cape May, New Jersey.

Olivia Matthews is the Cozy mystery pseudonym for Patricia Sargeant, an author better known for romantic suspense and contemporary romance novels. Olivia/Patricia has written for many national magazine publications, as well as conducted many writing craft workshops and offers online fiction writing courses. Her Cozy Mystery series, the Sister Lou Mystery Series, stars Sister Louise “Lou” LaSalle, a Los Angeles native now living in Briar Coast, New York, working at the Sisters of St. Hermione of Ephesus.

I’ve decided it’s time to once again add authors to the site, which I usually do in batches of four – not sure why! I just do. As always, these were mostly recommended to me by site users.

Vivien Chien grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where she still lives, working on her Cozy Mystery Series, the Noodle Shop Mystery Series, which stars Lana Lee, a waitress working at her family’s noodle restaurant.

 

 

 Devon Delaney is a lifelong resident of the American Northeast, and has competed in cooking competitions. Her Cozy Mystery Series is the Cook-Off Mystery Series, starring Sherry Frazelle, a cooking contestant living in a small town in Connecticut.

 

 

 A former English professor who plays blues guitar, Peggy Ehrhart holds a doctorate in Medieval Literature, and has published non-fiction work on that subject. She writes the Maxx Maxwell Mystery Series, starring a blues-singer sleuth, as well as the Knit & Nibble Mystery Series, starring the associate editor of a crafting magazine.

 

 Kirsten Weiss has lived a significant portion of her life overseas, spending nearly fourteen years in the fringes of the former USSR and Southeast Asia. She now lives in San Mateo, California. She is the author of the Pie Town Mystery Series, the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Mystery Series, the Doyle Mystery Series, and the Witches of Doyle Mystery Series.

It’s been a few months since I added new authors to the site, so here are four more! As always, these were mostly recommended to me by site users.

Lena Gregory lives on Long Island in New York. She is the author of the Bay Island Psychic Mystery Series, starring an ex-psychiatrist who owns a psychic shop on Bay Island, New York, and the All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery Series, starring a diner owner in Florida.

 

 

Tina Kashian is an attorney and former mechanical engineer, and has worked in diverse roles such as patent attorney and New Jersey Deputy Attorney General. She grew up in New Jersey. She is the author of the Kebab Kitchen Mystery Series, starring an ex-lawyer who works at a family Mediterranean restaurant on the Jersey shore.

 

 Mary Miley has lived in Virginia most of her adult life after a childhood moving around as a child in an army family. She has a Bachelors and Masters in History from the College of William and Mary ahd has taught history and museum studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has written a wide variety of material besides mysteries, including numerous nonfiction books and magazine articles, most under her actual name, Mary Miley Theobald. Her Cozy Mystery series is the Roaring Twenties Mystery Series, starring an ex-Vaudeville actress and silent film actress in 1920s Hollywood.

 Shari Randall is a native New Englander living in Connecticut. She is a military wife and a librarian. She writes the Lobster Shack Mystery Series, starring an ex-ballet dancer working at a relative’s lobster shack in Connecticut.