![]() When you have officers talking in a cozy, you can’t very well have them use what must be their favorite word in the whole world because they say it three times in every sentence. I learned a whole new vocabulary when I worked for the police department. Most of their words start with F and end with K. ![]() I worked as a police secretary for ten years. It’s sometimes hard to find adequate substitutes for swear words. I like to leave the rest up to imagination.Ĥ. Banter, innuendo, and an occasional kiss that leaves the character’s knees weak is enough for me. I’m perfectly content with not having to write those kinds of scenes. You have to describe what happened without actually describing what happened. The cozy writer has to get the horror of the murder across without showing much in the way of blood, guts, and the like. I’ve found it takes quite a bit of skill to kill someone and not gross out the reader. Obviously, they’ve never tried to write one. Believe it or not, there are readers out there who think that cozy mysteries are inferior to other mysteries. ![]() THE TOP FIVE THINGS I’VE LEARNED WRITING A COZY SERIESĥ. If you haven’t “met” Max O’Hara and visited Pittsburgh in these books, you’re in for a treat. We’ve kept up the schedule ever since, and her third novel, A Room With A Brew, was released on October 3. Joyce and I both had our debut novels come out in 2015, three months apart. ![]() By Julie, thrilled to welcome Joyce Tremel to the blog today. ![]()
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