What’s wrong with this picture? But first, for those of you who are new readers, I play clarinet in a community concert band. If you aren’t familiar with a clarinet, here’s a quick 101 on maintenance. A clarinet breaks down into 5 pieces to be packed into the case. In the image of the clarinet…
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Witches, women and beer
This is the supposed origin story of witches. I read about it the other day and found it fascinating. Apparently, until the 1500s, the job of brewing beer was a woman’s job. Beer has been drunk for something like 7,000 years, and as it used grains and was part of a normal diet, the fermentation…
I’m a Daphne finalist
I’m very excited to be able to announce that my manuscript is a finalist in the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense in the unpublished mainstream mystery/suspense category. The Daphne is run by the Kiss of Death chapter of RWA (America). Good luck to the other finalists *waving*: Liz Boeger Lis Angus Raimey…
A break from murder and mayhem
After a month of posts on poisons and stories of their use, which wasn’t exactly an uplifting topic (although fascinating), I thought I should make my first non A to Z post a little more rainbows and unicorns. So here are a few little heartwarming stories to shake-off the doom and gloom you might now…
A to Z Reflection (and poison PS)
Another A to Z done and dusted. Now it’s time to look back and reflect. I always like to look at the statistics (I am a scientist after all), so please bear with me while I rattle off a few numbers. If you’d rather skip that, I have a fabulous PS to add to my…