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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...
