Theodosia Browning by Laura Childs

Occupation: Tea Shop Maven When life hands me lemons, I try to make lemonade. Except when I’m hosting a fanciful Limón Tea Party. Let me introduce myself. I’m Theodosia Browning – yes, that Theodosia, the one who owns the Indigo Tea Shop in Charleston, South Carolina...

A Word With Laura Childs

Why do you write the genre that you write?Ever since I was a kid I adored spooky mysteries. Told ghost stories around the campfire, snuck into the cemetery at night on a dare, scared my friends with a Ouija board. When the time came to start writing mysteries I was...

Theodosia Browning by Laura Childs

Occupation: proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop It’s the week before Halloween and Drayton Conneley (my tea sommelier) and I are attending the grand opening of a “literary and historically themed” haunted house. It’s in a dilapidated old Victorian mansion known as the...

A Day in the Life ~ Theodosia Browning by Laura Childs

With amber leaves etched against a cerulean blue sky, it’s a glorious day here at Creekmore Plantation. Drayton, my tea sommelier, and I have been invited to participate in a bird hunt. And because our hosts are rabid anglophiles, the hunt is styled in the manner of...

Day In The Life ~ Theodosia Browning by Laura Childs

Occupation: tea shop maven So there I was, catering an afternoon tea at a hot-air balloon rally. The weather was lovely, with all sorts of hot-air balloons floating overhead like so many colorful bubbles. Then, with the event finally behind us, my tea sommelier...