One of the characteristics of a cozy mystery is the ordinary occupation of the protagonist. The occupation has to be one that allows the heroine the flexibility to solve crimes yet still do a plausible job of making a living. Cozy readers are, if nothing else, a practical sort of person. […]
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There are many important characters in a mystery story. The most important character is the detective (professional, amateur, or accidental) who solves the crime and brings justice to the villain. In many mystery and thriller genres, an even more important character is the antagonist, the villain, the evil mind that pits itself against
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Sally O’Brian… Ava Storm… Cynthia Pierson. My three heroines are very different people. If the people an author writes about are just extensions of her personality, I wonder what that says about me. Perhaps that’s a topic for a future discussion. In the meantime, I would like to find out which kind of
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One of the fun things writers get to do is creating characters. While we have to accept the people around us in the real world, in our fictional worlds, we can create any character we want. We can make them as good as we want, or as evil as we can imagine. In most
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