by Judy Alter | Nov 17, 2021
The school book wars raging across the country are particularly divisive in Texas. This morning in the Star-Telegram Ryan Rusak, opinions editor, implied the controversy between parents and school boards is a fuss over nothing. I would agree it’s a fuss over nothing,...
by Judy Alter | Oct 9, 2021
Saturdays are supposed to be a mini-vacation from work and responsibilities, but I went to school today. Specifically, I want to a webinar on the importance of first lines taught by Hank Phillippi Ryan and sponsored by the Grand Canyon Writers chapter of Sisters in...
by Judy Alter | Oct 5, 2021
The cover to Irene in Danger, second in my series, “Irene in Chicago Culinary Mysteries.” I’m delighted with the cover. In this one, Irene has been in France for a year, running a small café, but she’s back in Chicago now for Henny and Patrick’s wedding, a small but...
by Judy Alter | Sep 27, 2021
Tonight’s light suppercopying my mom’s salmon supper Monday’s child may be fair of face, as the nursery rhyme tells us, but she also is hard at work, at least this one was. At least that’s the way it was around my cottage today. The wonderful Zenaida came...
by Judy Alter | Sep 15, 2021
Blatant self promotion to lead off a post about cozy mysterieswith the cover of one of my own, but Dame Agathadoesn’t need the sales, and I do Happy Birthday today to Dame Agatha Christie, the queen of cozy mysteries. Christie, who was born in 1890, died in 1976...
by Judy Alter | Aug 17, 2021
Sue Ellen Learns to Dance and other StoriesOne of my often overlooked booksand the only collection of short stories I haveAvailable on Kindle for ninety-nine cents The question startled me. It came from my son’s friend, a man in his early fifties who retired two years...
