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Carol Sabala Has Escaped
Today we have a character interview with Carol Sabala, the protagonist of MURDER, HONEY, by Vinnie Hansen.
Q. Carol, thanks for coming by! Tell us a little bit about yourself–both something we learn from Murder, Honey and something that readers might not guess?
Read more at https://frankiebow.com/2016/05/18/cha...
Q. Carol, thanks for coming by! Tell us a little bit about yourself–both something we learn from Murder, Honey and something that readers might not guess?
Read more at https://frankiebow.com/2016/05/18/cha...
My Books Are Not Cozies
I’m not a fan of cozy mysteries.
For those unfamiliar with the term, a cozy is a mystery with an amateur sleuth, no foul language, the sex and violence off the page. As my friend and cozy-mystery writer Mary Feliz puts it, “There’s a murder, but no one gets hurt.” In my world, it means the good bits have been left on the editing-room floor.
This may seem an odd attitude when some people have slapped the cozy label on my Carol Sabala Mystery series. However, as author Cara Black once noted, “Carol Sabala has a mouth on her.” One of my readers once suggested maybe we need a category called “Cussy Cozies.” But even then, the Carol Sabala series would be stretching the label due to . . . .
Read more: https://vinniehansen.com/2019/12/my-b...
For those unfamiliar with the term, a cozy is a mystery with an amateur sleuth, no foul language, the sex and violence off the page. As my friend and cozy-mystery writer Mary Feliz puts it, “There’s a murder, but no one gets hurt.” In my world, it means the good bits have been left on the editing-room floor.
This may seem an odd attitude when some people have slapped the cozy label on my Carol Sabala Mystery series. However, as author Cara Black once noted, “Carol Sabala has a mouth on her.” One of my readers once suggested maybe we need a category called “Cussy Cozies.” But even then, the Carol Sabala series would be stretching the label due to . . . .
Read more: https://vinniehansen.com/2019/12/my-b...
5 Ways to Coax Me to Your Cozy
On my last post, I pointed out that my books are not cozies, and that I’m not particularly fond of cozies. Yet, I read a lot of them.
My own series starts with a murder in the kitchen of a restaurant, so one might think I’d be drawn to culinary cozies. Nope.
I created baker amateur sleuth Carol Sabala because I didn’t want my protagonist to be a teacher like myself. My husband at the time was a sous chef in a fancy Santa Cruz restaurant so I had a direct conduit for information about the workings of a kitchen.
Then we got divorced. I wanted my character to evolve, anyway. Carol Sabala’s arc includes a movement toward more professional investigation, taking the series into the P.I. tradition and nearer to my influences of Sue Grafton and Marcia Muller.
So what does draw me to a cozy?
(Read more at https://vinniehansen.com.)
My own series starts with a murder in the kitchen of a restaurant, so one might think I’d be drawn to culinary cozies. Nope.
I created baker amateur sleuth Carol Sabala because I didn’t want my protagonist to be a teacher like myself. My husband at the time was a sous chef in a fancy Santa Cruz restaurant so I had a direct conduit for information about the workings of a kitchen.
Then we got divorced. I wanted my character to evolve, anyway. Carol Sabala’s arc includes a movement toward more professional investigation, taking the series into the P.I. tradition and nearer to my influences of Sue Grafton and Marcia Muller.
So what does draw me to a cozy?
(Read more at https://vinniehansen.com.)
