✨📚 What fun! Some other authors and I had an author event at the Lake Geneva Library on Saturday that was a delight. We had a full room of writers seeking ideas about publishing, writing and books. Thank you, MINDY QUIGLEY, author of THE DEEP DISH MYSTERIES, which are funny mysteries set in a fictionalized Lake Geneva, for setting this up. @minty_fresh_books
✨ Other authors in attendance were:
📚 CHRISTINE DESMET, author of the FUDGE SHOP MYSTERIES, set in Door County, Wisconsin.
📚 ANNELISE RYAN, author of THE MONSTER HUNTER MYSTERIES, set in WIsconsin
📚 JUNEAU BLACK, an author duo writing the SHADY HOLLOW mysteries with forest animals as characters!
📚 We answered questions, discussed our writing process, and then headed down to DUST BUNNY BOOKS to chat with Raina, its owner and book buyers and browsers. It was a beautiful day. Lake Geneva is a lovely place with great shops, a gorgeous lake, and a fab library! (Thank you, Ellen!)
✨📚It was a perfect day to discuss books, meet other authors, and share ideas about writing! (Also, it was another chance to shop first at the Elegant Farmer. LOVE that place!) #elegantfarmer #mukwonago
✨📚Happy Sunday!
#authorpanel #authorsofinstagram #writingday #booksbooksbooks #lakegeneva #writinglife #wisconsinauthor #thebackyardmodelmysteries #authorlife #authorsofinstagram📚 #lakegenevawi #wisconsinbookauthor #indieauthor #sundayvibes
✨💝 Happy Friday! TGIF!
✨📚 Today’s question from the Writer Friends Challenge is NEW YEAR, NEW IDEAS. I’m using a What’s In/What’s Out format for that question. I list my Bookish Predictions in this author reel.
✨📚 BOOKISH PREDICTIONS and my author list for 2025 about WHAT’S IN:
✨Writing no matter what. No matter how tired, busy, or distracted, in other words.
✨Being positive. An author’s life is filled with rejection and difficulty, let’s face it. Negative reviews, waiting and much more.
✨Being grateful. I’m doing what I love, ‘nuff said.
✨BOOKISH PREDICTIONS and my author list for 2025 about WHAT’S OUT:
✨Imposter syndrome
✨Fear
✨Writer’s block
✨📚 My schedule is already filling for 2025. What’s on your IN/OUT list, writer friends?
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#authorsofinstagram #whatsinwhatsout #bookishpredictions #amwriting #funnyreels #foryou #writerfriendschallenge #wisconsinbookauthor #impostersyndrome #writersblock #friday #mylist #momswhowrite #booksbooksbooks #fictionwriter #thebackyardmodelmysteries #writingcommunity #funnycozymysteries #authorcommunty #waukeshacounty #tgif #authorsoversixty #momswhowrite #newideas
✨💖 Good morning!
✨🏆 Thank you, Shelf Unbound magazine for the TOP 100 NOTABLE INDIE BOOK honor!
✨🏆 SHELF UNBOUND magazine and website is an indie book and indie press magazine that celebrates the best in INDIE authors, publishers, and their books. (They’ve earned awards themselves, too!) The magazine provides book reviews, author features, and more. SHELF UNBOUND is a great resource for writers! #bookawards
✨🏆 I am honored TWO of The Backyard Model Mysteries have won TOP 100 NOTABLE INDIE BOOKS from Shelf Unbound. MODEL WAVE won this year. MODEL SUSPECT won last year. My cozy mysteries are funny stories for readers who want to laugh and escape. No s*x, politics, bad language or v!olence. They’re clean and wholesome reads for book lovers! #cleanandwholesome #cleanreads
✨💖 Check out the digital magazine for more news about top honors, authors, and their books!
✨💖 Happy Saturday, Friends. Keep writing, keep reading, and keep going!
#goals #goforit #authorlife #shelfunbound #bookawards #waukesha #oconomowocbookstore #booksbooksbooks #wisconsinbookauthor #thebackyardmodelmysteries #topshelf #indieauthor #indiebookaward #bookmarketing #authorinterview #newrelease #magazine #saturday #5amclub
✨🏆 Happy Wednesday, Insta-Friends!
✨🏆 Wow, what a ride! I ran a promotion for cyber-Monday. I was happy with making the Top 100 in the categories of Small Town & Rural Fiction, Amateur Sleuth, and Women Sleuth. Making it to number ONE in two of the categories was a shock. I’m so glad readers want a book that’s funny, and without s*x, politics, or v!olence. (To each their own when it comes to reading books. I like clean and wholesome reads, even my psychological thriller will be on the clean side. Stories can be told in multiple ways for different audiences.)
✨🏆 In this case, given that budgets are tight, I was happy to offer a super promo for two books, which ended up with almost SIX THOUSAND downloads ... LAUGH AND ESCAPE during a busy holiday season with a funny read set in Wisconsin. The Backyard Model Mysteries are “The Devil Wears Prada” meets a Wisconsin supper club. #wisconsinbookauthor #wisconsinstories
✨🏆 THANK YOU, thank you, thank you, readers. I sincerely hope you enjoy The Backyard Model Mysteries. For a signed author copy, please shop local at one of my beloved indie bookstores and gift shops.
✨🏆 There’s more to come in 2025. Happy reading!
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#booksbooksbooks #indieauthor #authorlife #thebackyardmodelmysteries #cozymysteryseries #moretocome #letsgo #amazonbestseller #smalltownfiction #amateursleuth #womensleuth #cleanandwholesome #cleanreads #authortok #booksale #bookrelease #cybermonday #bookmarketing #bookcategories #bookpromo #authorsofinstagram #wednesdaywisdom
✨🌅 Saturday thoughts: Writers aren’t normal. And when one is writing a psychological thriller, one realizes it even more! 😉 #authorlifemonth #authorsofinstagram
✨🖤 Writers see the world in a unique light, a perspective that incorporates the human condition. And we build stories all the time. We can write a story while sitting in a cafe watching people. Or while watching the sun rise. Or while sitting on an airplane. Stories are everywhere. But to have a story vs a list of events, there needs to be setting, conflict, and an obstacle or antagonist. #storyteller #authorcommunity
✨😉 Happy writing, friends! If you’re finishing National Novel Writing Month, write on!
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#instamood #writingprompts #writingcommunity #authorsofinstagram #indieauthor #amwritingfiction #wisconsinbookauthor #momswhowrite #plottwistedit #bookplots #novelwriting #saturdayquotes #jumparound #madisonwi
❄️💀Weather doesn’t stop us from using our Kohl’s cash! Black Friday retail shopping isn’t for the weak! 😉
✨❄️ If you’re headed out to stores on this Black Friday, remember your favorite indie gift shop or indie bookstore! Thank you from this indie author!
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#blackfridaysale #shoppingtime #holidayweekend #indieshop #shoplocal #wisconsinauthor #indieauthor #wisconsinbookstagram #wisconsinlife #foryou❤ #funnyreels #ilovethisweather #snow #lifeoutdoors #fridayfunny #jumparoundwisconsin
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#WriterFriendsChallenge NOVEMBER 2024: I am thankful for ... indie bookstores! I’ve written three cozy mysteries and I LOVE selling them. However, the people you meet along the way are even better! I am SO grateful for the indie shops and their owners who have ordered books, held events, and been kind to me!
✨💝 The Backyard Model Mysteries are available at a local indie bookstore near you! #shoplocalwi #smallbusinesssaturday #indiebookstores
Bayshore Books, Oconto
Birdy’s Books, Holmen
Books on Main, Friendship
Boswell, Milwaukee
Daydream Believer, Lake Mills
Dust Bunny Books, Lake Geneva
Frankies Book Nook, Theinsville
Kismet Books, Verona
Lake & Pine Co., Delafield
Literatus Books, Watertown
Mystery to Me, Madison
Pearl Street Books, La Crosse
Reads by the River, Waterford
Republic of Letters, Mineral Point
Spinster Books, Ashland
White Arrows Home, the Shop, Minocqua
#cozymysteries #cozymysteryseries #crimefiction #grateful #gratitude #thebackyardmodelmysteries #tksheffield #wisconsinbookauthor #wisconsinauthor #writerlife #writerinspiration #writercommunity #authorlife #writerfriendschallengenovember #minocqua #oconomowoc #mke #newreleasetuesday #tuesdaypost #indieauthorsofinstagram #boothing #bookstagram
✨💝📚 Daydream Believer! Daydream Believer Books & Gifts tour for your Saturday! #booksandcoffee #saturday #forauthors
✨📚 This indie bookstore in Lake Mills is charming! Books, coffee, and bakery—fabulous! @daydreambelieverbooksandgifts
✨📚 They support local authors with book sales, events, and more. Stop by if you’re in the Lake Mills area.
Daydream Believer Books & Coffee
130 E Lake Street Lake Street
Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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#indieauthor #foryou❤ #shopsmallbusiness #shopsmallsaturday #shoplocalwi #wisconsinsmallbusiness #lakemillswi #oconomowocwi #johnsoncreek
✨🥂 Who else is planning 2025 and 2026? This November, I’m NOT doing #nanowrimo or a writing sprint. I’m PLANNING my next book series. I’m happier with a plan, I’ve found.
✨🥂 The first manuscript in the romantic comedy series already is an award winner. It was a double finalist in the Chanticleer Book Awards 2024 and a First Place winner and a long-list nomination in other book award contests. I LOVE the series. Almost as much as The Backyard Model Mysteries!
✨🙏🏻 We plan but God laughs, of course. I can only do my best. But I have a positive POV about the series and my books. #amwritingromance
✨🥂 Happy Wednesday, Insta Friends. ❤️🍾💝🥂
#november #novemberisthenewdecember #planahappylife #writersofinstagram #writewritewrite #wednesdaywisdom #chanticleerbookawards2024 #authorsofinstagram #lookahead #2025 #plottervspantser #writingsprint #oconomowocwi #wisconsinbookstagram
✨📚 The Wisconsin Writers Association Conference 2024! #wwa2024
✨📚 Midwest authors, the WWA, and Pearl Street Books are in La Crosse-Onalaska for an author event filled with workshops, agent pitches, and books! The conference bookstore is Pearl Street Books @pearlstreetbooks and they have The Backyard Model funny mysteries! #thebackyardmodelmysteries
✨📚 I’m teaching a class about writing loglines, and I’ll be enjoying classes taught by Valerie Biel, too! @valeriebielauthor (She has TWO new books out!)
✨📚 Follow along if you want to know what author conferences are like! #authorsofinstagram #bookstagram #pearlstreetbooks #lacrossewi #stoneycreekhotels
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✨🥂What fun! Thank you, Mystery to Me, The Republic of Letters, and The Book Kitchen for an absolutely amazing experience. #authorcommunity
✨📚🥂I’ve said writing and book publishing isn’t just about books. More importantly, it’s about the people you meet along the way.
✨🥂📚 Journalist Doug Moe was truly special. Kind and gracious, and he asked great questions. To see our interview at Mystery to Me, check out the crowd-cast link on the Mystery to Me Events page. #mysterytomebookstore
✨🥂📚 Nicole, Keith and Leslie at The Republic of Letters and The Book Kitchen—THANK YOU! What fun to see your bookstore and cooking school. The food, the conversation, and warmth you bring to Mineral Point is fantastic. #therepublicofletters #thebookkitchenmp
✨📚🥂 Christine DeSmet, author, and Judy Bennett, The Dodgeville Chronicle, thank you for the wonderful interview questions! 🥰✍🏻 From one writer to another, you are incredible!
✨📚 And to my tour guide who gave me a behind the scenes tour of The Mineral Point Opera House—Thanks! ✨💝
✨🍂✍🏻 My books are available at The Republic of Letters and Mystery to Me.
@mysterytomebooks
@thebookkitchenmp
@republicoflettersbooks
#mineralpointwisconsin #mineralpointoperahouse #madisonwi #theedgewaterhotel #wisconsinauthor #booktour #wwa2024 #authorlife #indiebookstore #indieauthor #shoplocalwi #thedodgevillechronicle #dougmoe
✨👻 Model Ghost is funny fall mystery coming your way! Who loves to read books that make them laugh? Who NEEDS a good laugh right now? 😬
👻✨ Model Ghost” is a funny fall mystery that puts the FUN in fash-UN. It’s The Thursday Murder club meets The Devil Wears Prada. When a fashion designer is found “unalive” on the runway of a charity fashion show, Mel Tower investigates and confronts ghosts of her past.
✨🥂 The cozy mystery is a book to laugh and escape. Things are hard right now for many people—prayers for Florida and the southern states! I write books to alleviate stress and entertain readers. In a very small way, I hope to bring joy to people. #whyiwrite #bookstoentertain #newrelease #fallmystery
✨🙏🏻 Happy weekend, all. Be well, happy reading, and thank you to our First Reponders! #gratefulformylife
#thebackyardmodelmysteries #wisconsinlife #wisconsinauthor
Books for readers who want to laugh and escape. The Backyard Model Mysteries are funny cozies. They're The Devil Wears Prada meets a Wisconsin supper club!
