Moccasin Cove Mysteries

On the eighteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I join other patriots, and friends across the globe, in remembering those victims and first responders and their families. Many lost their lives protecting freedom and liberty in our Great county. I have many riches in my life because of their sacrifice. Thank you. One of those riches is the foray into writing that I started in 2012. I have a guest post today at Pens, Paws, and Claws Blog After you've said a prayer or passed along an act of kindness in honor of this historic date, I hope you can stop by the blog for a fun read about my pets and writing.

The United Stated and the world, celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first Lunar landing this week--myself included. The Twitter snip above reminded me of the excitement I felt watching the various launches-landings-splash downs in grade school. I never wanted to be an astronaut, but I admired the beauty of the concept and sheer determination that made the space program a success.  INSPIRED by the NASA tweet, I retweeted it with a comment meant to generalize my warm and fuzzy feelings about those childhood memories of watching the televised launch to splashdown cycle. I generally retweet things that are interesting to me. So do millions of others. I typically get a LIKE or REPLY from within my limited Twitter community. But, dang if this tweet didn't explode like a supernova! (Don't send me a correction if there is something scientifically off about that simile.) As you can see below as of 8:00 o'clock this morning, it had over 162,519 views. That was when I d...

                                   A cautionary tale for anyone new to teaching regarding class pets and good intentions.      Not so funny, but interesting—The day after I graduated with my teaching degree, I was to start a temporary job as a first-grade teacher. Being conscientious, I went to the classroom after school on the Friday before that Monday for a look around. The previous teacher had resigned and already moved out. I was joined by the principal, who I believe, in retrospect, came along solely to point out the filthy water in the 10-gallon fish tank. I got the hint. After she left, I moved the big goldfish (think koi) to a bucket with the dirty water and dutifully cleaned the tank.      Proud of myself for taking the initiative, I refilled the tank, reset the clean gravel and other aquarium tchotchkes. Then I scooped Goldie out of his bucket ...

      I'd like to welcome fellow mystery writer, Rick Homan to my blog. Rick has pulled off the impressive juggling act of publishing books One and Two in his academic mystery series in the same month. Read on to follow his logic and then I hope you'll check out his books on Amazon . -Liz Boeger   How and Why to Publish Two Books at the Same Time By Rick Homan      Several friends have wondered how I could publish my debut novel, Dark Mural , and Dark Exhibit ,   the second Nicole Tang Noonan mystery, at the same time. There’s some slight of hand involved.      When I finished the second draft of Dark Mural, I began reworking it with the help of fellow writers. I’m in a writers’ critique group that meets weekly, and I arranged manuscript swaps through the Guppy Chapter of Sisters in Crime. One of my swap partners was Liz Boeger.      This stage is called developmental editing. ...