NEWS & EVENTS
What’s your favorite Christmas read?
Recently an Amazon reviewer said What Child Is This? (Ellie Kent #2) has become a favorite Christmas read. I was delighted, but this also brought to mind other favorites: Dorothy L. Sayers’ The Nine Tailors, Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie, The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves, and M.C. Beaton’s A Highland Christmas. Like short stories? Santa brought Alice the Christie collection, Midwinter Murder, last year, and she plans to read it again this week!
Enjoy Christmas carols and English traditions
If you have ever wondered what a Christingle is, how to make bread sauce and Christmas pudding, or where the tradition of Christmas crackers came from, you’ll enjoy the “Sights and Sounds of England: What Child Is This?”It’s a playlist of videos offering entertaining information about traditions mentioned in the book–as well as carols, mummers, the history of Boxing Day and more! This resource is included in book and is also downloadable from this website’s Ellie Kent mysteries page (along with similar playlists for books 1 and 2).
“Writing a mystery: it’s more than whodunnit”
Recently, Alice gave a Zoom talk on writing a mystery for the Sno-Isle County Libraries in Washington. In this program, she described not only her own process for writing and revising a mystery, but also discussed the genre and the fact it remains the most popular after romance. And why is that? Because everlasting love is the only story more beguiling than the mystery, which assures us that no matter what bad things happen, good can triumph and order will be restored. You may view the program on YouTube now.
Zoom with me!
Since the Zoom era began, Alice has participated in events from California to Connecticut, as well as in England, France, India, and Pakistan. It’s an any time, anywhere world now, so if your book club or other group would like to chat with her about her books, reading, or writing, please feel free to contact her at alicekboatwright@gmail.com.
Recent/forthcoming events
November 12: “Writing a Mystery: It’s more than whodunnit,” an online program for the Sno-Isle Libraries. This program may now be viewed on YouTube.
February 3: Celebrating the first year of In the Life Ever After! Alice will join the Sisters in Crime Mystery Night reading at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, 7 pm. Free and open to the public.
Interested in having Alice Zoom to your book club or writers’ group?
For Zoom (or Skype, or Facetime) author visits, contact alicekboatwright@gmail.com