When Reality Gets a Little Too Close to Fiction: Guest Post by Author Edie Claire

Please welcome Edie Claire to the blog. Edie knows a good mystery when she sees one — or, maybe, even before she sees one, as you will soon read…

…An eerie, but true story from a very unlucky mystery writer…

"I swear, Officer—that's not my corpse!" 

When I wrote my first mystery, I had no idea what I was doing. All I had was a cool idea (a woman finds a body in her backyard, then discovers it's been embalmed already) and the desire to tell a story. When I got far enough along in my developing...