Killer Crafts & Crafty Killers

the blog of Anastasia Pollack, crafts editor and reluctant amateur sleuth

Monday, April 10, 2023

#CRAFTS WITH ANASTASIA--AUTHOR J.V. CAGGIANO ON HOW WRITING A MYSTERY AND KNITTING GO HAND-IN-HAND

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J.V. Caggiano has a day job as a part time feral child tamer. She has also worked retail and so knows true fear. She hoards yarn and knowled...
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Friday, April 7, 2023

AUTHOR KATHLEEN KASKA'S NEWEST CIRCA 1950S MYSTERY

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Kathleen Kaska is the author of the awarding-winning Sydney Lockhart Mystery Series set in the 1950s and the Kate Caraway Animal-Rights Myst...
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023

AUBREY NYE HAMILTON DISCUSSES MISS MARPLE AND MISS SILVER

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Patricia Wentworth and Agatha Christie Today we welcome Aubrey Nye Hamilton, a former librarian who is always searching for the next great r...
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Monday, April 3, 2023

#COOKING WITH CLORIS--A LITTLE ROMANCE, A LITTLE FONDUE FROM AUTHOR ELLE HARTFORD

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Elle Hartford adores cozy mysteries, cozy romance, cooking, and above all, learning new things. As a historian and educator, she believes in...
Friday, March 31, 2023

BOOK CLUB FRIDAY--AUTHOR LOIS WINSTON MAKES LEMONADE FROM LEMONS

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Sometimes things slip through the cracks. Such was the case today. Our featured author was juggling too many balls in the air and dropped on...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023

AUTHOR MARY SEIFERT WEAVES PUZZLES, KNITTING, A LABRADOR RETRIEVER, AND THE TITANIC INTO A MYSTERY

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Mystery author Mary Seifert loves puzzles of all kinds and can get lost for days trying to solve them.  As a former math teacher, she ties n...
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Monday, March 27, 2023

CRAFTS WITH ANASTASIA--AUTHOR ELLE MITCHELL VISUALIZES HER STORIES BY CREATING MINIATURE SCENES

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Elle Mitchell writes raw, character-driven dark fiction. She spends her downtime researching and eating more than her share of homemade bake...
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ANASTASIA POLLACK
I'm the crafts editor at American Woman magazine; the single parent of two teenage boys and a Shakespeare quoting parrot; caretaker to a semi-invalid, communist mother-in-law from Hell and her demon dog; daughter to a multi-married descendant of the Czars (supposedly); reluctant cat-sitter to Mama's extremely corpulent white Persian cat; a born Jersey girl; and star of my own amateur sleuth mystery series.
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