It's Wednesday you all!

What doe the middle of this week hold for you?

I'll be working hard on my eBay store. I'm having a lot of fun with it, though it is hard work. But when something sells, I get so excited!

Okay on to today, Wednesday!

I didn't expect to find many authors with a W name, but I was happily surprised.

Check them out!

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Lea Wait  aka Cornelia Kidd… Lea Wait wrote the very popular Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series which features Angie Curtis, the organizer of a needlepoint co-op in Maine. She also wrote the Shadows Antique Print Mystery Series which features Maggie Summer, a widow who owns Shadows Antiques which is also in Maine. Wait not only wrote mystery series for adults, but she also wrote historical novels for children. As if that isn’t enough, as Cornelia Kidd she wrote the Maine Murder Mystery Series. This series stars Anna Winslow as its sleuth, a wife on Quarry Island, Maine. 

NOTE: Sadly, author Lea Wait passed August 9, 2019. Through her blog, Lea shared her journey with pancreatic cancer. She and her husband also shared the journey of his illness and passing just a year before Lea. The cozy community, indeed the book industry still feel her loss.

LynDee Walker    Walker, an ex crime journalist, writes the Headlines in Heels Mystery Series. Her first in the series was nominated for the prestigious Agatha Award Best First Mystery Novel, which is saying a lot! Walker’s sleuth is named Nichelle Clarke, and she is a … you guessed it …. crime journalist. Nichelle doesn’t let luck determine her story matter, she listens to her police scanner to get the scoop on where her next article will take her.

Penny Warner   (aka Penny Pike) Warner writes the Connor Westphal Mystery Series which features a California newspaper publisher. Warner has her Master’s in Special Education, and has won several awards for her mysteries… including the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery and the Agatha and Anthony Awards for Best Juvenile Mystery (Mystery of the Haunted Caves.) Warner also writes the Party Planning Mystery Series. As Penny Pike, she writes the Food Festival Mystery Series, which takes place in San Francisco.

Livia J. Washburn     Washburn has written historical, western, fantasy and romance novels. And, of course, mysteries. She is the author of the Fresh Baked Mystery Series, which is set in Texas, and features a retired teacher. The second book in the Fresh Baked series is a Halloween-themed book and the third, which will come out in 2008 is a Christmas-themed novel. I have not read any of her books yet, as I was just told about her by a very “cozified” and helpful librarian.

Wendy Lyn Watson  (aka Annie Knox)  Watson teaches American Government and Constitutional Law at the college level and writes the Mystery à la Mode Mystery Series which is set in Texas and has, as its sleuth, the owner of an ice cream parlor. As Knox she writes the Pet Boutique Mystery Series. This series is set in Minnesota and features Izzy McHale, the owner of a pet boutique.

Heather Webber   (aka Heather Blake)  Webber writes a cozy mystery series that features a landscaper who specializes in “surprise garden makeovers” but who is sometimes surprised by murders, which she solves, not commits! Webber has also penned several romance novels. As Blake, she writes the Wishcraft Mystery Series and the Magic Potion Mysteries which take place in Alabama and feature a sleuth who owns the Little Shop of Potions.

Kirsten Weiss    Weiss has lived a significant portion of her life overseas, spending nearly fourteen years in the fringes of the former USSR and Southeast Asia. She now lives in San Mateo, California. She is the author of the Pie Town Mystery Series, the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Mystery Series, the Doyle Mystery Series, and the Witches of Doyle Mystery Series.

Christine Wenger   Wenger, with her double master’s in Sociology & Probation and Parole Studies, has used her criminal knowledge to write her Comfort Food Mystery Series. This series features Trixie Matkowski, a divorcée who moves to a small, upstate New York town where she manages a diner. (This series includes recipes in the mystery books.)

Linda Wiken    (aka Erika Chase & Essie Lang)  Linda Wiken writes the Dinner Club Mystery Series which features J.J. Tanner, an event planner. J.J. is a member of the Culinary Capers Dinner Club which is a club for “foodies”. This series also contains recipes! As Erika Chase she writes the Ashton Corners Book Club Mystery Series, which features Lizzie Turner and her five friends in a mystery book club in Alabama. Chase previously owned a mystery bookstore, as well as held jobs as a journalist, producer of radio shows, and a copywriter for advertising. As Essie Lang she writes the Castle Bookshop Mystery Series which takes place in New York. Shelby Cox is an ex-editor and current bookstore owner of one bookstore in Alexandria Bay, New York and manager/owner of another bookstore in a castle on an island.

Marty Wingate – Marty Wingate is a Seattle author who has led garden tours in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, and North America. She’s the author of the Birds of a Feather Mystery Series, which features a Dallas gardener (Pru Parke) who moves to London. Wingate also writes the Potting Shed Mystery Series, with sleuth Julia Lanchester, a tourist manager in a small English village. Wingate has also written several books about gardening.

Lois Winston   Winston writes the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery Series. This series features a sleuth who is widowed with two sons, who also happens to be the craft editor at a New Jersey based crafting magazine. Winston is also an award-winning needlework and craft designer, as well as a romance fiction author.

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