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2025 Writing Highlights: Charting
Addison on top in April, 2½ years after stumbling over his first death in Milverton, is my final writing highlight of the year! Thank you so much to all the wonderful readers for sharing my cosy, quirky, queer, Kiwi mysteries. It means everything! Now let’s see what we can get up to in 2026… The…
Read more >>2025 Writing Highlights: Visualising
Addison, Jake, Mabel, and Keith have never looked so adorable! I’ve always had a strong impression of their appearance in my head while writing The Milverton Mysteries and I periodically describe them on page but this year was the first time we’ve had a visual representation. I had great fun working with illustrator Surya Dexter…
Read more >>Mysterious Murders short story competition winners announced
5 a.m. was an early wake-up for me to join the Mysterious Murders short story competition winners call this morning, but totally worth it to celebrate with my fellow judges and the first, second, and third-place winners! A huge congratulations to Theresa Baumgartner, Lee Adam, and Kathy Schilbach who each met the “murder mystery with…
Read more >>2025 Writing Highlights: Performing
I’m a regular at the Palmerston North City Library, often going there to write, so when the librarians asked if I’d be willing to feature in a video, of course I had to say yes! To quote my video self, “just being in the library is inspiring, being surrounded by books and knowing that every…
Read more >>A Cluedo-style Milverton Mystery
I accuse Harriet Ferguson (the mayor) in Lynne’s Cafe with a cheese platter… That’s my answer for today anyway! We played this Cluedo-style Milverton Mystery game in the Cozy Mystery Lovers Facebook Group during my author takeover earlier in the year and I had too much fun not to share it here too. Read the…
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