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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.)
