Hello? Hello?

Well, I’ve taken an inadvertent blogging sabbatical… but I’m back now.

Just in time for the holiday season, when we’ll all have oodles of free time! Right?

Anyway, for the last few months I’ve been editing manuscripts, putting words in on my work-in-progress, teaching a couple of classes on writing, shepherding children, and cooking a ton of recipes. I must say, though, I’ve missed blogging, even though I’ve still been doing my Thursday Cozy Chicks posts.

On the writing front, I’m looking over the proofs for Dead and Berried, finished the final edits of Beads of Doubt, and am almost done with the first Sophie Garou book.

And… (drum roll here please) I’m happy to announce that we have a winner for the Muffins are Murder contest (the judges tackled it last weekend). although competition was fierce (we had a TON of entries), the winner was Barbara Hahn’s Berried Lemon Medley Streusel muffins. Look for the recipe on my web site soon — also in the Spring issue of Bed and Breakfast America Magazine and in Dead and Berried, which will be out in February.

As we swing into the holiday season, I’ll be posting some of my favorite recipes — and will be blogging far more regularly, assuming my laptop (which has died TWICE recently) continues to function.

More soon!