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Who is Jessie Crockett?
By J.A. (Julie) Hennrikus Today I write to you from my Somerville apartment Of my five fellow bloggers, I feel like I know Jessie the least. We have crossed paths at the last few New England Crime...
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You Made Me Love You
by Julie Hennrikus in a city apartment, looking at the Boston skyline [To celebrate Liz Mugavero's publication of Kneading to Die, we are blogging about our pets this week.] “You made me love you. I...
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Summer Reading–How Do I Chose?
by Julie Hennrikus sitting in my office at StageSource I love Memorial Day weekend–the start of the summer season. And of my reading season. I know a lot of people who are heavy readers in the winter,...
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Why Am I a Cozy?
Everyone has a different definition for what a cozy mystery is. But this weekend, I spent some time with my Wicked Cozy sisters, talking about what made a cozy “work” for us as readers. Identifying...
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Beware: Mystery Writer’s Brain at Work
By J.A. Hennrikus Overlooking Boston Several years ago I met my friend Regina for our weekly mystery-writing-check-in lunch. We had barely put in our order when she pulled a ball of elastics the size...
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97 Per Cent
A week and a half ago I went to visit a Chinese healer. He was suggested by a friend as another way to battle stress, and get on the right side of health. I wanted him to do some acupuncture, give me...
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Putting My House in Order
by Julie Hennrikus Overlooking Boston Today is my last day of a much needed vacation. This spring was a crazy one. Conferences, both for work and for writing. A difficult end of the semester for my...
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Long, Long Ago, Off the Coast of Maine . . .
By Julie Writing in Somerville Alright, not so long ago. Only fourteen years. But a lifetime in so many ways. Fourteen years ago I rented a house on Campobello Island for two weeks. I invited four...
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The Boston Book Festival
I love Boston for a lot of reasons–the people, the culture, the theater community, the sense of humor, the Red Sox, the food, the walkability, the architecture. The list is a long one, and goes on. But...
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Thanks to Level Best. . .
As we discussed earlier this week, Crime Bake has been part of our writing lives for a long time. In fact, I’ve been to every Crime Bake save the first one. So I have been there when the Level Best...
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Ready? Set? JanNoWriStart
First, a confession. I’m a blogging bigamist. Devoted to two different groups of fabulous women. Since 2010, I have been blogging on Live to Write–Write to Live twice a month. On that blog there are a...
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#JanNoWriStart
By Julie In the winter wonderland of Boston We’re three days into 2014. How are those resolutions doing? For many of the Wickeds, today is a snow day, and a perfect time to write. Though this being...
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A Wicked Happy New Year to Me
Since I wanted to share my good news with everyone at the same time, I am doing my first cross post on my two blogs, Wicked Cozy Authors and Live to Write/Write to Live. Here it goes: I will be writing...
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Publicly Personal
By Julie, Sick of Snow in Somerville I am in a social media craze this month. Yesterday we had a great Netiquette conversation here on the blog. I won’t even tell you how we got the idea for that post....
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Wicked Sisters (in Crime)
By Julie, desperately seeking signs of spring in Somerville Were it not for Sisters in Crime, this blog would not exist. Sisters in Crime is a national organization with a mission to “promote the...
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A Terrible Anniversary
By Julie Hennrikus I live in Somerville, which is just outside Boston, next to Cambridge. I live on an MBTA route, and walk, train, and bus everywhere. I work in Boston–both at StageSource (a service...
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Those 70′s Shows
I’m going to give you a little test. What do Barnaby Jones, Frank Cannon, and Jim Rockford have in common? How about Theo Kojak, Mike Stone, and Sam McCloud? Can you hum the theme song from Cannon? I...
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Lessons from Dame Agatha
I blog on Live to Write/Write to Live every two weeks, sharing the blog with another group of fabulous women. Over on LTW/WTL, we are all different types of writers, but my topics frequently are about...
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Living the Dream
By Julie, enjoying the waning days of summer in Somerville I am days away from the deadline of my first Clock Shop Mystery. As I make that final lap of revisions and rethinking, I can’t help but...
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It’s All A Plot
By Julie, putting away her summer clothes in Somerville We’ve talked about being a pantser versus a plotter a few times on the blog. (Here, here, and here, for example.) Sherry Harris still talks about...
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