BLOGOVERSARY CELEBRATION – DAY 1
My blogoversary is actually December 31.
This blog started as a New Year’s Resolution in 2009!
Followers these past 7 years have seen me not only blog about books but my family through great times and sad. I am hoping that 2017 will be a fabulous year both in books and my life. I am still recovering from my son’s death in 2015 and most days are easier but frankly the holidays suck. That is why I am glad I have this yearly celebration to keep me going during this difficult time. I continue to be committed to posting a least 1 post each and every day, reviews, memes, guest posts, interviews and GIVEAWAYS!!
So let’s get on with the giveaway!!
For This 1st Day of Giveaways there will be 3 WINNERS!!
I am giving away HARDCOVER COPIES of these wonderful cozy mysteries.
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Sometimes when a new mystery is about to be launched and people ask me how it all began, I have to really think hard to separate the final product from the very first idea, that first ‘ping’ that made me think of my Sea Harbor women and their mystery solving expertise.
Sometimes that moment is easy to remember, like the time I spotted a deserted baby car seat on a beach and it was still there days later. It stayed in my head, a mystery for Nell, Izzy, Cass and Birdie to solve—a scene that launched the fifth seaside knitters mystery, 
.
that an old fisherman named Finnegan helped the seaside knitters figure it all out.
Murder at Lambswool Farm
was different. It began with beautiful photographs I came upon by chance: a green sustainable farm in Massachusetts, a photo of a barn transformed into my dream kitchen, and a photo of an elegantly set table out in a field. I wanted to be in every one of those scenes. And so was born Lambswool Farm, a piece of land Birdie (the oldest seaside knitter) had inherited. She decided to turn it into a farm where guests could dine alongside the vegetables—with the sea in the distance and soft music floating on the salty breeze. And of course it would be called Lambswool Farm. Birdie is a knitter, after all—and she has a granddaughter who loves lambs.
It wasn’t until I began writing about the farm that the mystery developed. It happened the day a stranger stopped at the gate. His car broke down, or so he said. He was a photographer … or so it seemed. A passerby…he said…but one who seemed overly curious about the seaside knitters and Sea Harbor—especially the town’s medical clinic, where strange things began happening.
series. Her fictional knitting friends are teaching her the intricacies of women’s friendship, the mysteries of small-town living, and the very best way to pick up dropped stitches on a lacy knit shawl.
) has me feeling nostalgic (TEN books. That means ten plus years of hanging out with Nell, Izzy, Cass and Birdie—ten years of friendship with these ladies, ten years of following them around and asking them to share their lives with me).
we learn a little more about Izzy’s family. I hope you enjoy meeting Charlie….
, all Izzy Chambers Perry wants for Christmas is to keep her brother out of jail….
they are all drawn into events at the Sea Harbor Community Day School because one of the youngest and newest characters goes to school there. Some have taken positions on the board and several are teaching the girls to knit as part of the enrichment program. This introduces us to some new characters and new place for things to go awry. Blythe Westerland was not a popular person at the school and she was definitely an easy woman to dislike. When the Knitters dig a little deeper into her life more suspects emerge giving readers a wonderful read as we try to solve the mystery ourselves.
