Novels and Books

In addition to creating quilts and the like, I also write. My focus is science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction and mysteries. I have one contemporary cozy mystery series that I'm writing. This image is the basic design for one of the quilts in the first book.

After reading a few cozy mystery novels based upon quilting or knitting, I decided that I wanted to write a series that covered all of the fiber arts, hence the Fiber Arts Mysteries. Currently under development, I hope to start publishing by the end of the year. The first book is called The Ties that Bind, and takes place in Western New York. The amatuer sleuth is Azni Murphy, a newlywed who lives in a little town where both she and her husband grew up.

At the end of each month, I will post an update concerning books that I am writing or that will be published. My desire in all of my fiction novels is to incorporate artisan crafts as much as possible. Books like the Fiber Arts Mysteries are easier to accomplish than other series. Historical fiction is another easy one to incorporate arts because so much of the ancient ways included crafts in the every day.

Are there certain crafts that are more readily known and observed in historical fiction? I don't know. Most of what I read focuses very little on any crafts save quilting. What would be interesting would be to write a series that shows the majority of crafts that were done from blacksmithing to glassblowing. That idea is for another day, though.