I love Kate Atkinson, Frances Brody, Louise Penny, Rhys Bowen, Deanna Raybourn, and Jacqueline Winspear to name a few. One summer when I was in junior high I read all of Agatha Christie’s books. I have so many favorites! My childhood favorites were Trixie Belden and Nancy Drew. Once they fixed their bikes they rode off happily ever after. They explored the creepy old house and ended up finding bike repair kits in the basement. I think I was destined to write cozy mysteries because the plot it did contain involved two girls who ended up at a haunted mansion when their bikes broke down.
It had very little plot or character development, but it did have some great descriptors, like cobwebs that swept across the hallway and creaky doors. My parents saved a copy which I still have today. It was titled The House on the Haunted Hill. I wrote my first mystery in second grade. When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer? Side note – this doesn’t stop me from singing off key in the car or the shower. List three fun facts about yourself that we wouldn’t read in your ‘official’ bio. Sloan is paving her way as the first female craft brewer in town, experimenting with new beer recipes, and wait for it… finds bodies in the fermenting tank and slumped over the bar. My other series, the Sloan Krause Mysteries are set in Leavenworth, Washington (where I frequently visit) a Bavarian village tucked into the Cascade Mountains. The Bakeshop Mysteries are set in the charming hamlet of Ashland, Oregon (where I actually live) and feature a romantic pastry chef, Juliet Montague Capshaw who bakes beautiful, artisan pastries and stumbles upon murder.
I’m Ellie Alexander, mystery writer and overall dabbler in baking, beer, and the great outdoors. In fact, when I started this blog, one of my goals was to do a Q&A with her, so this is a big milestone for me (I can take a break from blogging now, yes? Oh, that’s not how it works… right). Both of these series are ones that I eagerly await new additions to and I’m beyond thankful to Ellie for taking the time to answer some questions for me. Words cannot express how excited I am to share this post! Squeee!!! My first author interview on this blog! And it’s with Ellie Alexander!!! (I know, I’m using a lot of exclamation marks but I’m just so darn excited!)Īs you may know from reading my blog, I’m a huge fan of cozy mysteries, especially culinary cozies, and two of my favourite series are by Ellie Alexander (which is actually a pen name of Kate Dyer-Seeley’s) – The Bakeshop Mysteries and the Sloan Krause Mysteries.
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