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.

I’m adding four more new authors to the site. As usual, these are authors I’ve heard of from visitors to the site, either through comments or by email.

 Allison Brook is a former Spanish teacher who grew up in Brooklyn, New York, then Long Island, off the coast of New York. She has studied in Mexico and Spain to become fluent in Spanish, and has written in the genres of mysteries, romantic suspense, and young adult fiction. Her mystery series are the Haunted Library Mystery Series, and (under the name Marilyn Levinson) the Golden Age of Mystery Book Club Mystery Series and the Lydia Krause/Twin Lakes Mysteries.

 Kellye Garrett has had a career working in Hollywood, including working as a production assistant for the TV series Angela’s Eyes and writing for the CBS show Cold Case. She has also been a magazine editor, and holds a B. S. in magazine writing from Florida A&M as well as an MFA in screenwriting from the University of South California. She currently lives in her home state of New Jersey, working in New York at a media company. Her mystery series, the Detective By Day Mystery Series, stars Dayna Anderson, a struggling Hollywood actress.

 Melinda Mullet was born in Dallas, and has spent time in school in Texas, Washington D. C., England and Austria, pursuing a legal degree. She has spent many years as a practicing attorney before beginning her career as an author. She now lives near Washington, D. C. She writes the Whisky Business Mystery Series, starring a photojournalist who has inherited a whisky distillery in the Scottish Highlands.

 Ashley Weaver has worked in libraries most of her life, serving as a page and a clerk before getting a MLIS (Master of Library and Information Science). She now serves as a branch manager at Oberlin, the headquarters of the Allen Parish Libraries in Louisiana. Her mystery series, the Amory Ames Mystery Series, stars a wealthy young woman in 1930s Britain.

I’m adding three more new authors to the site. As usual, these are authors I’ve heard of from visitors to the site, either through comments or by email.

Bethany Blake lives in a small town that inspired the setting of her main series, has a Ph. D. she never uses, and runs a pet sitting business. She writes the Lucky Paws Petsitting Mystery Series, starring Daphne Templeton, a pet sitter in the lakeside village of Sylvan Creek.

 

 

Richard Houston has worked as both a carpenter and a software engineer, the later of which he worked on the space shuttle at Vandenberg AFT and the Johnson Space Center. He has a bachelor’s degree in math, and lives now lives in Missouri. He’s the author of the Books to Die For Mystery Series, starring recently divorced Jacob Martin, who is going through a midlife crisis, and his golden retriever.

Radha Vatsal was born in Mumbai, India, then attended a United States boarding school until the age of sixteen. She attended Duke University, where she earned a doctorate in English. She’s the author of the Kitty Weeks Mystery Series, a 1910’s period piece starring Capability “Kitty” Weeks, a newspaper reporter who hopes to jump from fashion and society on the Ladies’ Page to criminal reporting.