#guestpostsandinterviews

What’s off-limits for a cozy mystery?

Cozy mysteries: ‘Tain’t What You Write (It’s the Way That You Write It)

(With apologies to Jimmy Lunceford)

I write cozy mysteries, and I know that cozy is what my readers expect. Which is why I put this disclaimer into the description of my latest Professor Molly mystery, The Perfect Body.

  The Perfect Body has

* no swearing

* no explicit sex

* no graphic violence

However, it does have

*…

Jane Reads: The Perfect Body by Frankie Bow | Blog Tour with Character Guest Post and Giveaway

Character Guest Post The baby gets a word in

Let’s get the obvious issue out of the way first. I’m two months old, and I can’t speak yet. Preverbal, I believe is the technical term. I’ve tried verbalizing, but my parents only hear “baby babble,” a description I find more than a little condescending.

Despite this limitation, I am quite capable of making observations and forming opinions. I am my…

Judging a book by its cover: What does your face reveal about your personality?

What do Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism look like? Now we know, thanks to Science.

Composite photos of individuals high in narcissism were in fact judged as narcissistic. Same with psychopathy and Machiavellianism.

“The results indicated that unacquainted observers reliably detected the dark triad composite… not only is the dark triad a set of psycho-social characteristics — it may…

Let’s talk about campus murder mysteries

Let’s talk about campus murder mysteries.

I love reading them and writing them. What is it about academia that sparks thoughts of murder? Of course there’s the old saying that “campus politics are so nasty because the stakes are so small.” But that’s more of an observation than an explanation. I have some ideas:

Clashing agendas.Professors want to enlighten the world with their teaching and their…

“Okay, who needs to die?”

What genre do you write?  I write mysteries that don’t have explicit sex or violence, so technically they’re in the “cozy mystery” category, although that might be a little misleading. I think that because of the success of series like “The Cat Who…” and the Hannah Swensen mysteries, sometimes people expect cozies to have cats and recipes.My main characters tend to be indifferent housekeepers…

Interview: Five Questions (that Turned into Ten)

Interview by liannathaniel first published on I Read What You Write

1. What does it mean to you to be called an author? Frankie- People have different ideas about what it means to be a writer versus an author, and which is better. K.M. Weiland’s site is called “Helping Writers Become Authors,” which implies that author is the preferred state of being. Dean Wesley Smith, on the other hand, defines…

What is your favorite..?

Twenty questions for Frankie Favorite color: Black for shoes, white for walls. Favorite candy: Snickers. Favorite snack: Quesadillas. Favorite Soft Drink – Coke Zero. Manly, yes, but I like it too. Favorite Hard Drink – Jameson Favorite Ice Cream Flavor – All of them. It’s ice cream, isn’t it? Favorite movie: I’d watch Paris is Burning again. Favorite TV show: Perry Mason Favorite book and…