Mar 17, 2025 | A Day In My Life
Occupation: Owner of Celebrations at Ivy Springs Hi, y’all. I’m Cassidy Jamison, and I own Celebrations at Ivy Springs. I’m an event planner, and my place in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Staunton, Virginia is used for meetings, parties, concerts, and weddings. I...
Mar 14, 2025 | A Day In My Life
(Miss Perry was first introduced in No Grater Danger, Vintage Kitchen Mystery #7; you don’t need to have read No Grater Danger to enjoy Cat Got Your Tongs!) I’m Miss Lois Perry, the second last of the Perry dynasty, a Great Lakes shipping family in the 1800s, with a...
Mar 13, 2025 | A Day In My Life
A reporter once asked me what a typical day in the life of J.B. Fletcher was like, and the question took me aback. Life hasn’t afforded me many typical days since my first novel, The Corpse Danced at Midnight, was published. (I think my story would still be stuck in a...
Mar 11, 2025 | A Day In My Life
A lovely young couple had scheduled their wedding reception at the Pinnacle Hotel for the spring of 1959. I, as the hotel’s party planner extraordinaire (and Owner’s Daughter) got right to work making sure everything would be ready to the couple’s exact...
Mar 10, 2025 | A Day In My Life
This morning, I hadn’t planned on driving down the highway to Sausalito, the picturesque waterfront town just over the Golden Gate Bridge. When I pulled into the parking lot, I could barely see the small beach and marinas perched on Richardson Bay because of the heavy...
Mar 7, 2025 | A Day In My Life
Occupation: Marine Rescue Volunteer and reluctant amateur sleuth. Why? Why would someone knock on the door of my barge at this time in the morning? Ten o’clock, and I haven’t even had my first double-shot skinny latte of the day. And 10:00 a.m., let me tell you, is...