In an effort to build traction for Cozying Up, I recently re-joined Threads. I have to admit that I didn't really understand it the first time I tried it. This time, I went in with a more open mind and known community: Book Threads. It wasn'
Getting another book in a series that you love is like your birthday and Christmas all in one. I was thrilled when I heard that the fifth installment of Helena Dixon's The Secret Detective Agency series was coming out and couldn't wait to read it. The
Sometimes, you can judge a book by its cover. Especially when the cover art is a sumptuous as the one for Deb Marlowe’s The Innkeeper’s Intrigue, the second book in the Lockstone Hollow Mysteries series. I mean, just look at it! Set in the Regency period, The Innkeeper’
You may remember my earlier review of Skylar Warren’s cozy mystery Murder With A Side Of Red Beans And Rice. Set in small Georgia town of Willow Bluff, it was the first in The Honeybee Diner Mysteries series. Today, the second book in the series is available. At the
It's time for reviews for another set of book tracking apps. Like the first batch, all of the trackers were tested for several weeks on laptop, tablet, and phone. If available, my exported GoodReads information was imported into each app. In addition, I added several ARCs (advanced reader
Once upon a time, there was only one way to track the books you were reading. You got out a piece of paper or maybe a blank journal and wrote them down as you read them. Now book tracking software and apps are everywhere. Ask what other readers are using
Sometimes you run into books that should be right in your wheelhouse, but somehow aren’t. The Primrose Murder Academy by Stacy Hackney is one of those books for me. The main character of the mystery is Lila Shaw, a recently divorced mother with a recently created investigation agency. In
A question that comes up when potentially choosing a book that's not the first book in a series is will I be able to follow along or will I be lost? For me, the author who was the best at this was Sue Grafton. In just a paragraph
The Colloquial Cat by Philippa Sandall is short, easy to read book that covers fifty-five phrases involving our favorite felines. Most of them were familiar to me and the new-to-me ones were most likely due to the fact that Sandall is from Australia. As staff to many,
Back in the late 80s, my mom and I made a trip to take my Gramma Walker to visit my Uncle Francis and Aunt Donna in South Carolina. It wasn't our first three generation trip, but it would turn out to be our last. I have several fond
I've mentioned before that most of the cozy mysteries I read are set in Great Britain in the years before World War I and World War II. That is partly because the queen of cozy mysteries began writing then and set many of her books in that time
This is a new series for Cozying Up that focuses on various resources available for writers. Some will be focused on cozy mysteries and some of them will cover more general topics related to writing. Two of the cozy mystery series I've read are from the imagination of