Background
Jenn McKinlay was born in Connecticut, United States.
2014
Jenn McKinlay is walking the beach with her dad.
2015
Kate Carlisle and Jenn McKinlay.
2017
In 2017 she received the RT Reviewers Choice Award for her Barking Up the Wrong Tree novel.
2017
Jenn McKinlay with Meg Tilly Author after the 2017 RT Reviewers Choice Award ceremony.
2018
Jenn McKinlay
2018
Jenn McKinlay at the“Readers for Life” literacy signing
2018
Jenn McKinlay
2018
Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Jenn McKinlay with her sons at Stonehenge.
2018
Jenn McKinlay with her friend and fellow Jungle Red Writer Hank Phillippi Ryan.
2019
Poisoned Pen Bookstore, 4014 N Goldwater Blvd, Scottsdale, Arizona 85251, United States
Jenn McKinlay with Jennifer Ashley and Beth Kendrick at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore.
2019
Jenn McKinlay is on the golf court on a sunny day.
Southern Conn State University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Jenn attended the Southern Conn State University, where she studied Library Science and English Literature.
Poisoned Pen Bookstore, 4014 N Goldwater Blvd, Scottsdale, Arizona 85251, United States
Jenn McKinlay at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore.
Kensington palace, Kensington London, W8, United Kingdom
Jenn McKinlay at Kensington palace with my Mum.
Poisoned Pen Bookstore, 4014 N Goldwater Blvd, Scottsdale, Arizona 85251, United States
Jenn McKinlay with Louise Penny at The Poisoned Pen Bookstore.
Waikiki, Hawaii, Honolulu County, United States
Jenn McKinlay on the beach in Waikiki, Hawaii, Honolulu County, United States
Jenn McKinlay, the author of Library Lover's Mysteries, Cupcake Mysteries, Good-Bye Girl's Mysteries (as Josie Belle), Decoupage Mysteries (as Lucy Lawrence), and London Hat Shop Mysteries.
Jenn McKinlay
(The picturesque town of Morse Point may be a small dot on...)
The picturesque town of Morse Point may be a small dot on the New England landscape, but the decoupage class at Vintage Papers is larger than life. With cutouts, glue, and varnish, members create eye-catching projects - and uncover clues to a killing. For Brenna Miller, teaching the popular decoupage class is the only way to gloss over her painful past.
https://www.amazon.com/Stuck-Murder-Decoupage-Mystery-Book-ebook/dp/B002N83GYY/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(A sticky situation in the second Decoupage mystery. Decou...)
A sticky situation in the second Decoupage mystery. Decoupage teacher Brenna Miller is in over her head when she finds bride-to-be Tara with her fiance's dead best friend-and Tara holding the murder weapon. It's up to Brenna to get to the truth before Tara's future turns to shreds.
https://www.amazon.com/Corpse-Decoupage-Mystery-Lucy-Lawrence/dp/0425233898/?tag=2022091-20
2010
(Lindsey is getting into her groove as the director of the...)
Lindsey is getting into her groove as the director of the Briar Creek Public Library when a New York editor visits town, creating quite a buzz. Lindsey’s friend Beth wants to sell the editor her children’s book, but Beth’s boyfriend, a famous author, gets in the way. When they go to confront him, he’s found murdered - and Beth is the prime suspect. Lindsey has to act fast - before they throw the book at the wrong person.
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Deceiving-Library-Lovers-Mystery-ebook/dp/B0051GAVCA/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(Autumn in New England brings out the changing leaves, and...)
Autumn in New England brings out the changing leaves, and the leaves bring out the tourists. When Brenna Miller gets stuck as the tour guide for a group of leaf peepers, she tries to make the best of it. But it's hard to stay enthusiastic after the trial leads them straight to a dead body.
https://www.amazon.com/Sealed-Kill-Decoupage-Mystery-Lawrence/dp/0425240258/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(Carrie Rushton, the president of the Friends of the Libra...)
Carrie Rushton, the president of the Friends of the Library, has been accused of murdering her husband. The evidence is stacking up against Carrie, but neither Lindsey nor the Briar Creek crafternoon club is buying it. When a nor'easter buries the small coastal town, the police are too busy digging out the locals to investigate the murder.
https://www.amazon.com/Due-Library-Lovers-Mystery-Book-ebook/dp/B005GSYYZS/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(Answering tricky reference questions like this one provid...)
Answering tricky reference questions like this one provides plenty of excitement for library director Lindsey Norris. But when a shocking murder is committed in her cozy coastal town of Briar Creek, Connecticut, the question of who did it must be answered before an innocent man gets the book thrown at him... Lindsey is enjoying her second year in Briar Creek as the library director, meeting with the crafternoon club, and happily dating tour boat captain Mike Sullivan.
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Sinker-Library-Lovers-Mystery-ebook/dp/B008JHXQVG/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(Answering Shakespeare trivia comes with the job descripti...)
Answering Shakespeare trivia comes with the job description for library director Lindsey Norris. But when the Briar Creek Community Theater mounts their newest production of the Bard, she has no intention of leaving the stacks for the stage. Unfortunately, a villain is waiting in the wings… Former Broadway actress Violet La Rue is holding auditions for A Midsummer Night’s Dream - and everyone from the sour spinster librarian Ms. Cole to Lindsey’s youthful library pages are trying out for parts.
https://www.amazon.com/Read-Weep-Library-Lovers-Mystery-ebook/dp/B00BDQ39O4/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(Scarlett Parker’s love life in the loo - as her British c...)
Scarlett Parker’s love life in the loo - as her British cousin Vivian Tremont would say - it’s also gone viral with an embarrassing video. So when Viv suggests Scarlett leave Florida to lay low in London, she hops on the next plane across the pond. Viv is the proprietor of Mims’s Whims, a ladies’ hat shop on Portobello Road bequeathed to both cousins by their beloved grandmother, and she wants Scarlett to finally join her in the millinery business. But a few surprises await Scarlett in London.
https://www.amazon.com/Cloche-Dagger-Shop-Mystery-Book-ebook/dp/B009RYS39A/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(Loving a good cup of coffee runs in the family for Briar ...)
Loving a good cup of coffee runs in the family for Briar Creek library director Lindsey Norris. But when her brother, Jack, a consultant for a coffee company, goes missing, her favorite beverage becomes a key clue in a dangerous mystery. Between preparing the library for the holidays and juggling the affections of an ex-boyfriend, Captain Mike Sullivan, and her new crush, actor Robbie Vine, Lindsey has her hands full. But the mysterious disappearance of her world-traveling playboy brother takes precedence overall. Afraid that involving the police could brew trouble for Jack, Lindsey takes matters into her own hands.
https://www.amazon.com/Borrowed-Time-Library-Lovers-Mystery-ebook/dp/B00JJXTOUG/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(Vivian Tremont, are hard at work at Mim’s Whims - their l...)
Vivian Tremont, are hard at work at Mim’s Whims - their ladies’ hat shop on London’s chic Portobello Road - to create hats for an Alice in Wonderland themed afternoon tea, a fund-raiser for a local children’s hospital. It seems like a wonderfully whimsical way to pass the hat, and Scarlett and Viv are delighted to outfit the Grisby family, the hosts who are hoping to raise enough money to name a new hospital wing after their patriarch. Unfortunately, the Grisby heir will not live to see it - he’s been poisoned.
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Hatter-Shop-Mystery-Book-ebook/dp/B00FX7LWK2/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(Library director Lindsey Norris has befriended two elderl...)
Library director Lindsey Norris has befriended two elderly brothers, Stewart and Peter Rosen. She enjoys visiting them in their treasure-filled, ramshackle Victorian on Star Island until she discovers that Peter has been killed and Stewart is missing. Now she's determined to solve a murder and find Stewart before he suffers his brother's fate.
https://www.amazon.com/Likely-Story-Library-Lovers-Mystery-ebook/dp/B00SI026IS/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(Cousins Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont’s fashionable ...)
Cousins Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont’s fashionable London hat shop, Mim’s Whims, is visited by a new customer bearing an old hat box. Ariana Jackson is getting married and wants to restore her mother’s bridal hat and veil for the occasion. The elegant item was made by Scarlett and Vivian’s grandmother over thirty years ago, so Viv is delighted to take the job.
https://www.amazon.com/Drop-Hat-Shop-Mystery-Book-ebook/dp/B00LMGK6AA/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(For Scarlett Parker, part of the fun of living in London ...)
For Scarlett Parker, part of the fun of living in London is celebrating the British holidays, and she’s excited to share her first Bonfire Night with her cousin Vivian Tremont. Invited to a posh party by their friend Harrison Wentworth, Scarlett and Viv decide to promote their hat shop, Mim’s Whims, by donning a few of their more outrageous creations. The hats prove to be quite the conversation starters as the girls mix and mingle with the guests - never suspecting that one of them is a killer. It’s a cold, clear night, perfect for the British tradition of tossing a straw-stuffed effigy of Guy Fawkes, a traitor to the crown, onto the bonfire.
https://www.amazon.com/Copy-Murder-Shop-Mystery-Book-ebook/dp/B00W2ZKP0G/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(Lindsey Norris and her staff are gearing up for the Briar...)
Lindsey Norris and her staff are gearing up for the Briar Creek Library’s annual Dinner in the Stacks fund-raiser. The night of dinner and dancing is not only a booklover’s dream - it’s the library’s biggest moneymaker of the year. But instead of raising funds, the new library board president is busy raising a stink and making the staff miserable. Although Olive Boyle acts like a storybook villain, Lindsey is determined to work with her and make the event a success. But when Olive publicly threatens the library’s newest hire, Paula, Lindsey cracks like an old book spine and throws Olive out of the library.
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Stacks-Library-Lovers-Mystery-ebook/dp/B06WD7NVBQ/?tag=2022091-20
2017
(Holly Hartzmark is a former showgirl who's looking to bri...)
Holly Hartzmark is a former showgirl who's looking to bring Mel and Angie's sweet treats to Sin City, but Mel isn't so sure she's ready to hand her recipes over to a complete stranger - especially one as brash as Holly. But after the potential bakery location gets blown up, Mel begins seeing another side to Holly. Determined to help a kindred spirit, Mel sets out to discover who is trying to keep the bakery from cashing in. But with a murderous mischief maker on the loose, the odds are stacking up against a happy ending for Mel and her friends.
https://www.amazon.com/Vanilla-Beaned/dp/B06ZZ227HL/?tag=2022091-20
2017
(London milliner Vivian Tremont and her American cousin an...)
London milliner Vivian Tremont and her American cousin and partner, Scarlett Parker, tip their caps to their beloved shop on Portobello Road in Notting Hill and set off for Paris, where Viv can’t wait to teach a hat-making class. But she has another reason to travel to the City of Light: to find the man she impulsively eloped with years ago and have their marriage annulled. William Graham is not only handsome and charming, but he also has a glamorous job as an insurance investigator who works with priceless pieces of art, most recently a small Renoir that has been discovered in a junk shop.
https://www.amazon.com/Assault-Beret-Shop-Mystery-Book-ebook/dp/B01E4WAFF4/?tag=2022091-20
2017
(Love is in the air at Fairy Tale Cupcakes as Angie prepar...)
Love is in the air at Fairy Tale Cupcakes as Angie prepares for her wedding, but co-owner, Mel, is preparing for a breakup. Her old friend, Diane Earnest, is dumping her fiancé after discovering he’s only marrying her for her money. She wants Mel to personally deliver a batch of caramel breakup cupcakes to the louse and give her a play-by-play of his reaction.
https://www.amazon.com/Caramel-Crush-Cupcake-Bakery-Mystery-ebook/dp/B01J2STXDU/?tag=2022091-20
2017
(Carly DeCusati returned home to Bluff Point, Maine, with ...)
Carly DeCusati returned home to Bluff Point, Maine, with her tail between her legs. But she’s determined to get her life back on track - and that means finding new homes for the elderly golden retriever and overly talkative parrot she inherited before her old life fell apart. Enter physical therapist and hot one-night stand James Sinclair. James doesn’t care that Carly doesn’t do relationships.
https://www.amazon.com/Barking-Wrong-Bluff-Point-Romance-ebook/dp/B01N9NTXI7/?tag=2022091-20
2017
(A stray kitten and a rambunctious poodle bring together a...)
A stray kitten and a rambunctious poodle bring together a small-town bachelor and a single mother in the latest romance set in Bluff Point, Maine. Bluff Point brewery owner Zachary Caine wants nothing to do with commitment. His wild bachelor lifestyle suits him perfectly - until a foster kitten named Chaos makes him a reluctant hero. Now he’s BFFs with the kitten’s two little girls and finds himself falling for their gorgeous mother, who couldn’t think less of him. Divorced mother Jessie Connelly wants nothing to do with men like Zach. He’s sexy and charismatic and bad news, just like her ex. But her girls adore him, and he’s doing a good job filling in for their deadbeat dad. Then a snowstorm brings out the best in both neighbors, who, it turns out, have more in common than their mutual attraction...
https://www.amazon.com/Every-Bluff-Point-Romance-Book-ebook/dp/B06Y4W2JGF/?tag=2022091-20
2018
(With Angie and Tate's wedding just around the corner, it'...)
With Angie and Tate's wedding just around the corner, it's a happy time for Melanie Cooper and the bakery crew. Not only are they finessing the last minute details of the big day, but their bakery, Fairy Tale Cupcakes, has just been hired to bake cupcakes for the blockbuster book signing of a controversial author who wrote a steamy bestseller filled with juicy local gossip. But one by one, the people Angie has hired to work at the wedding begin turning up dead. As the body count rises, the bestselling author is the next to bite the dust. Mel quickly realizes she needs to figure out how the murders are connected and why - before the killer brings the entire cupcake crew crumbling down.
https://www.amazon.com/Wedding-Crumble-Cupcake-Bakery-Mystery-ebook/dp/B073Z3BCXH/?tag=2022091-20
2018
(Lindsey Norris is finally getting married to the man of h...)
Lindsey Norris is finally getting married to the man of her dreams - but it's not all roses for Briar Creek's beloved library director, as gardening enthusiast and town newcomer Aaron Grady gives the term "book lover" a whole new meaning. Inappropriate looks and unwelcome late-night visits to Lindsey's house have everyone from the crafternooners to Lindsey's fiancé, Sully, on edge. When Grady's dead body is found staged outside the library and all the clues point to Sully, Lindsey knows it's up to her to dig through the hidden chapters of Grady's previous life to find the real culprit and clear Sully's name.
https://www.amazon.com/Word-Wise-Library-Lovers-Mystery-ebook/dp/B07L7TDZ3K/?tag=2022091-20
2019
(When a stack of library materials is found at the scene o...)
When a stack of library materials is found at the scene of a hit and run, library director Lindsey Norris finds herself dragged into the investigation as the police try to link the driver of the stolen car to the person who borrowed the books. Before Lindsey can delve into the library's records, the victim of the hit and run, Theresa Houston, suffers another "accident" and the investigation shifts from driver negligence to attempted homicide. A clue surfaces in the confiscated library materials that could crack open the case and it is up to Lindsey to piece it all together.
https://www.amazon.com/Hitting-Books-Library-Lovers-Mystery/dp/0451492684/?tag=2022091-20
2019
(Melanie Cooper has zero interest in catering her fifteen-...)
Melanie Cooper has zero interest in catering her fifteen-year high school reunion, but Angie insists it's only right that they bask in the success of Fairy Tale Cupcakes - and Mel's engagement to the delicious Joe DeLaura is the cherry on top! Everything is going better than expected until Cassidy Havers, resident mean girl and Mel's high school nemesis, picks a fight. No longer willing to put up with Cassidy's bullying, Mel is ready to tell the former homecoming queen to shut her piehole and call it a night.
https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Devils-Cupcake-Bakery-Mystery/dp/0451492633/?tag=2022091-20
2019
(Ryder Copeland is an accomplished architect and one heck ...)
Ryder Copeland is an accomplished architect and one heck of a father... not to mention tall and sexy. He's everything a hero should be, and Lord knows, Maisy Kelly has read enough of her great-aunt Eloise's romance novels to recognize one when she sees one. But like all fairy tales, Maisy can't help but wonder if this Prince Charming is too good to be true... Ryder is drawn to the shy, curly haired professor who hires him to convert the Victorian house she's inherited from her aunt into a romance bookstore. Attracted to a woman for the first time since his divorce, Ryder finds himself wishing for a future with Maisy that he knows is impossible.
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Ones-Happily-Ever-After-ebook/dp/B07CWFY72C/?tag=2022091-20
2019
(When the opportunity arises to use his ranch to boost Sav...)
When the opportunity arises to use his ranch to boost Savannah's publicity career, Joaquin doesn’t hesitate to invite her into his world at Shadow Pines and woo her with all of his Christmas loving mojo. It’s a gamble since the holidays aren’t really Savannah's thing and helping her might also mean losing her as she plans to shake the dust off of their quaint town in North Carolina and head back to New York City the first chance she gets.
https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Keeper-Happily-Ever-After/dp/0451492455/?tag=2022091-20
2019
(London's most refined canines and their humans are gearin...)
London's most refined canines and their humans are gearing up for the Pets and Wellness Society's annual dog show - and Betty Wentworth, favorite aunt to Scarlett's fiancé Harrison and proud owner of corgi front-runner Freddy, knows that this could be their year with the right edge. Never one to turn away a corgi in need, Scarlett convinces her milliner cousin, Vivian, to design matching hats for dream team Betty and Freddy as they compete for Best in Show. It's a tail-wagging good time until the dog-food sponsor of the event is found dead and Betty is the prime suspect.
https://www.amazon.com/Buried-Brim-Shop-Mystery-Book-ebook/dp/B07RMLX4SK/?tag=2022091-20
(Life is all sugar and spice for the Fairy Tale Cupcake ba...)
Life is all sugar and spice for the Fairy Tale Cupcake bakers - Melanie Cooper is engaged to the delectable Joe DeLaura, Angie Harper and her husband Tate are savoring married life, and the bakery is bustling with happy customers. Until one of their most valued cupcake connoisseurs ends up dead. Local glass artist and cupcake lover Rene Fischer-Klein has always suffered from a wide variety of health issues. In an effort to cheer her up, her doting husband, Peter, brings her a four-pack of her favorite cupcakes every week.
https://www.amazon.com/Pumpkin-Spice-Cupcake-Bakery-Mystery-ebook/dp/B07VP1NX6M/?tag=2022091-20
(When the Briar Creek Public Library holds its first overd...)
When the Briar Creek Public Library holds its first overdue book amnesty day - no fines for late returns - the volume of incoming materials is more than Lindsey and her staff can handle. In a bind, Lindsey drafts the crafternoon ladies to help check-in and sort the stacks of books. But one tardy tome catches her attention - a copy of J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, twenty years past due.
https://www.amazon.com/Better-Never-Library-Lovers-Mystery-ebook/dp/B01BK0SQ90/?tag=2022091-20
(Mackenzie “Mac” Harris fled her hometown of Bluff Point, ...)
Mackenzie “Mac” Harris fled her hometown of Bluff Point, Maine, after being left at the altar - and seeking solace in the arms of her best friend’s off-limits brother. Now, seven years later, she’s back to attend her best friend’s wedding - safe, or so she thinks, from the mistakes of her youth. But Gavin Tolliver has never forgotten the woman who has always held his heart. And when Mac rescues a stray puppy named Tulip, only Gavin, the town’s veterinarian, can help. With a little assistance from Tulip, Gavin vows to make Mac realize that their feelings are more than just puppy love...
https://www.amazon.com/About-Bluff-Point-Romance-Book-ebook/dp/B01LX3H0Q5/?tag=2022091-20
(Summer’s mom is hoping to set her spoiled daughter up wit...)
Summer’s mom is hoping to set her spoiled daughter up with Sam, and she’ll do whatever it takes to make the match happen. When Maggie heads to her romantic rival’s house to put a stop to the scheming, she discovers Summer standing over a dead body - holding a weapon. As much as Maggie would love to see Summer get her just desserts, she can’t shake the feeling that the meddling menace is, in fact, innocent. Now Maggie and the Good Buy Girls will have to sort through racks of suspects to find a killer - or Summer will wind up getting a truly raw deal…
https://www.amazon.com/Marked-Down-Murder-Good-Girls-ebook/dp/B00IOE4MBM/?tag=2022091-20
Jenn McKinlay was born in Connecticut, United States.
Jenn attended the Southern Conn State University, where she studied Library Science and English Literature.
After Jenn attended the Southern Conn State University, she worked at a bar named Toad’s Place and took a full-time job in Cromwell, Connecticut as a librarian. Although she had decided to become a writer after watching the movie "Romancing the Stone", she would not get time to write anything because of her job. So she moved to Arizona and began writing romantic novels. They did not prove to be any good to her so she decided to take up some part-time jobs. She fell in love with Chris during this course and became the mother of a boy. After this, life took a strange turn when she received a call from Harlequin. She signed a contract with them and continued writing romantic stories, but was not gaining anything out of it. Jenn decided to switch from romance to mystery novels.
So, in 2008 she gave the best work of her life which was the Cupcake Mystery series. With this series, she began tasting some success and two of novel series’ were listed on the New York Times bestsellers’ list. She still continues to write mostly in her kitchen as her apartment is always full of pets, kids, and guitars. The Cupcake Mystery series written by Jenn McKinlay is a six novel series, The first novel of the series was titled ‘Sprinkle with murder’ and was published in March 2010. The series, on the whole, was a turning point in the life of Jenn, which also helped her to establish herself as a highly acclaimed author.
The first novel revolved around the life of two friends named Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura. The plot shows that they had just opened a cupcake bakery under the name of "Fairy Tale Cupcakes". The novel was very well-reviewed by the major reviewers and Jenn got much acclaim for her efforts. Other established authors described her debut mystery to be flowing like a smooth buttercream frosting mentioned in the bakery of Melanie Cooper. They have praised the characters of the novel to be pretty delicious and the romantic segment of the novel to be an icing on the cake. Sheila Connolly has appreciated it as sweet read. The sequel to the first novel was published in January 2011 and was titled "Buttercream Bump Off."
In the second novel of the series, Melanie and Angie are shown to be busy preparing delicious cupcakes in their Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery for the upcoming Valentine’s Day. But they again land into trouble when Melanie’s mother is held a suspect for the murder of Baxter Malloy. This novel debuted as #31 on the New York Times bestsellers’ list. It was well appreciated by the audience for its smooth narrations and mysterious plot.
(Melanie Cooper has zero interest in catering her fifteen-...)
2019(London's most refined canines and their humans are gearin...)
(When a stack of library materials is found at the scene o...)
2019(Lindsey Norris is finally getting married to the man of h...)
2019(Life is all sugar and spice for the Fairy Tale Cupcake ba...)
(London milliner Vivian Tremont and her American cousin an...)
2017(Holly Hartzmark is a former showgirl who's looking to bri...)
2017(Vivian Tremont, are hard at work at Mim’s Whims - their l...)
2014(When the opportunity arises to use his ranch to boost Sav...)
2019(When the Briar Creek Public Library holds its first overd...)
(For Scarlett Parker, part of the fun of living in London ...)
2016(Mackenzie “Mac” Harris fled her hometown of Bluff Point, ...)
(The picturesque town of Morse Point may be a small dot on...)
2009(A stray kitten and a rambunctious poodle bring together a...)
2018(Lindsey is getting into her groove as the director of the...)
2011(Cousins Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont’s fashionable ...)
2015(Scarlett Parker’s love life in the loo - as her British c...)
2013(Love is in the air at Fairy Tale Cupcakes as Angie prepar...)
2017(Summer’s mom is hoping to set her spoiled daughter up wit...)
(Answering tricky reference questions like this one provid...)
2012(Lindsey Norris and her staff are gearing up for the Briar...)
2017(With Angie and Tate's wedding just around the corner, it'...)
2018(Carrie Rushton, the president of the Friends of the Libra...)
2012(Answering Shakespeare trivia comes with the job descripti...)
2013(Loving a good cup of coffee runs in the family for Briar ...)
2014(Library director Lindsey Norris has befriended two elderl...)
2015(Autumn in New England brings out the changing leaves, and...)
2011(Carly DeCusati returned home to Bluff Point, Maine, with ...)
2017(Ryder Copeland is an accomplished architect and one heck ...)
2019(A sticky situation in the second Decoupage mystery. Decou...)
2010"Genre fiction is my bag. I love it all. If there was an advanced degree in just reading genre fiction, I would sign up – repeatedly. If a writer loves multiple genres, I think it’s important to be writing several of them from the get-go, otherwise, publishers don’t like to let you out of your designated fictional area. So, it is a happy circumstance that I’ve tried a variety and haven’t been told that I couldn’t try others. Mysteries and romance are my favorites, with romance edging out mysteries right now, but sci-fi/fantasy, if done with romance and mystery are interwoven, can beat out the others."
Quotations:
"For me, being an author is a lot like being a reader. When I was a kid, my first out of body experiences happened while sitting under a big dogwood tree in our yard where I went sleuthing with my two besties in my blue roadster and when I fell through the back of a wardrobe during a game of hide and seek and found myself in Narnia."
"Writing is a similar experience for me. It really is like falling down a rabbit hole, observing what is happening around me and trying to put it into words so that someone else can share the adventure. The wonderful thing about being both a writer and a reader is that I get to live all sorts of lives and have endless adventures. I wouldn’t change my job for anything."
"My settings definitely define my characters and their actions. The urban southwest is cupcake crazy, so it matches up with my bakery quite well. My New England setting for the library series brings all of the unique stoicism of that area into the books. And, of course, the hat shop series is set in London because that suits the hat shop so perfectly."
"For me, romance is so much harder than mystery. I mean, a dead body really moves a plot along, you know? Good romance writing requires depth and honesty and genuine conflict but I write primarily comedy so it's a real plate-twirling-on-a- pole-while-on-rollerskates balancing act to get all the notes right. Mysteries have a certain emotional distance that makes it less taxing for me to write, but plotting the red herrings, curating the suspect list, and giving the sleuth an authentic purpose to be engaged in the mystery, yeah, that requires some serious brain juice, so they're both difficult but in different ways. My favorite part of both genres is when I type THE END on whatever manuscript I'm writing. Truly, it is the best feeling in the world!"
Jenn’s father was a glider pilot and because of that, she has flown a lot with him. She has taken lessons for flying a glider aircraft from her father. When she was a kid, she wanted to become a jockey and was helped by her mother, who took her for riding lessons.
Later, with two small children at home, she found that decoupage is a fun craft as well as a very handy tool, especially when used to cover up doodles made in permanent marker on otherwise lovely furniture.
Physical Characteristics: Even at her teen years, Jenn was very tall considering her age at that time and hence had to give up her riding lessons.
Jenn is married to musician Chris and has a couple of sons. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona along with her husband, sons, and number of pet animals comprising of a dog, two cats, and a fish.