Hi, everyone! Check out my guest post at Elizabeth Spann Craig’s site, “Mystery Writing is Murder.” I’m talking about the butler as suspect in Golden Age detective fiction. All kinds of skullduggery going on, including the first clue of the contest! Thanks, Kathy Be the first to like. Like Unlike
Ready for “K.B. Owen’s Dangerous and Unseemly Mystery Tour”? I’ll be visiting some of the best writers and bloggers out there, and I hope you’ll join me as I tour the blogosphere, introducing my historical mystery, Dangerous and Unseemly. But there’s more “mystery” to it than just my novel. Since I can never resist…
I don’t talk much about my personal life on this blog, but my public and private lives seem to be intersecting lately. Especially today: my first mystery, Dangerous and Unseemly, has been released on Amazon – more on that later – and also today, my first child, Patrick, turns 20! I know that 21 is supposed to…
Welcome to the first of a series of character sketches, based upon the people who live in the world of Dangerous and Unseemly, my debut mystery novel. Each post will provide a particular character’s “view from an armchair,” a unique look into that character as he or she sits in a favorite spot to read, sew, converse,…
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Last year, hubby and I did a joint blog post about each other’s foibles. Ah, married life can be so entertaining – especially from the sidelines. 😉 This year, I’ve been thinking about how communication has been radically altered in the 20+ years Paul and I have been married. If we were…
Margaret (Gail) Frazer, the author of the Dame Frevisse Mysteries and the Joliffe Player Mysteries (both set in medieval England), died last week at age 66, after a long fight with breast cancer. In honor of her legacy, here’s my post from 2011 (with some updating) about her amateur sleuth, Dame Frevisse. Enjoy! Be the…
Happy Monday! With the new theme up, and things running sort-of-smoothly (after a lot of trial and error), this post from last year caught my eye. Hope it gives you a good laugh. I’m keeping all of the original marvy comments, too. Take heart, O Tech-Challenged Ones! ——————————————- My blog has been requiring me…
You may have noticed that there’s a lot of blue in my website’s new look. Out of the various options that website developer Laird Sapir and I considered, the blue wallpaper looked absolutely right to me. At the time I didn’t think about why that might be; I just went with my instincts. Then I ran across…
