{"id":2970,"date":"2009-11-06T15:27:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T20:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2012-06-19T12:07:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T17:07:54","slug":"updating-alphabetical-pages-of-mystery-book-authors-on-the-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/updating-alphabetical-pages-of-mystery-book-authors-on-the-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating Alphabetical Pages of Mystery Book Authors on the Site…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was just browsing through a few of the alphabetical pages on the Cozy Mystery site, and was somewhat surprised at what I found. A few years ago, when I started the site, I (apparently!) didn’t add any information for some\u00a0(as in “quite a few”) of the authors.<\/p>\n

I cannot believe that the very popular Donna Andrews<\/a> has this description: “One of her series involves a blacksmith theme (the Meg Lanslow series)…” OR >>> How about what I have listed for the wildly popular Mignon F. Ballard<\/a>\u00a0>>> “Her series features a guardian angel… Augusta Goodnight”… \u00a0Hmmmm…..<\/p>\n

Those “blurbs” are embarrassing to me! VERY embarrassing! What was I thinking about when I wrote those?!?!? Is that really the best I could do?!?<\/p>\n

So, I have decided that I will slowly make my way through the mystery book authors’ alphabetical pages and try to remedy this problem of mine… I am going to try to update some of the authors whose descriptions are paltry. I will try to include something about the author’s “previous life”… other than the very obvious “I always wanted to be an author” type of information. Something that might give the prospective reader an inkling as to why the author ended up writing the types of books he\/she does. Maybe a great gourmet is now writing a culinary mystery book theme series, or an ex-lawyer is writing a legal thriller series (\u00e0 la John Grisham<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

This is not to say that I am going to change all of the “descriptions” of all of the authors. Take, for example, one of the blurbs that I would like to use as an example of what all of the blurbs should be: “Sharon Wildwind<\/a>\u00a0served as an army nurse in Vietnam and now writes a series featuring ‘Pepper’ Pepperhawk, a nurse returning from Vietnam.”<\/p>\n

Ok, ok, I know I didn’t do a phenomenally great job with the above example, but it does provide a nice starting place for someone who is looking for a new mystery book author to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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