Mysteries with recipes and cuddly animals? Welcome to Debra Goldstein!!
Judge
Debra H. Goldstein authors Kensington’s Sarah Blair mystery series including
recently published Three Treats Too Many, 2020 Silver Falchion
finalist Two Bites Too Many, and January 2019 Woman’s World Book of
the Week One Taste Too Many. Debra also wrote Should Have Played
Poker and 2012 IPPY Award winning Maze in Blue. Her short
stories have been chosen as Agatha, Anthony, and Derringer finalists. Find out
more about Debra at:
Website
– www.DebraHGoldstein.com
Twitter
- @DebraHGoldstein
Instagram
– debra.h.goldstein
Bookbub
– https://www.bookbub.com/profile/debra-h-goldstein
What
would you say are your strengths as an author?
My
biggest strength as an author is and has been my passion to succeed as a
writer. That motivation is what has enabled me to willingly learn from other
authors, readers, books, and classes how to better my writing. It also forced
me to translate my ideas into written words that eventually were enough for a
short story or a novel.
How
often do you write, and do you write using a strict routine?
I
wish I could say that I write daily or have an established routine, but I
don’t. When I was still on the bench, I was more disciplined – writing between
midnight and four a.m., as well as on weekends, but now, days blend into each
other and I only write when the muse hits me or I have a deadline.
Five
years from now, where do you see yourself as a writer?
Five
years from now, I hope I am a better and more disciplined writer who gives back
in the same manner people have extended themselves to help me. In terms of my
writing, I would love it if my Sarah Blair series is still going, my short
stories are continuing to be accepted, and I have written a standalone that is
well-received.
If
you could offer once piece of advice to a novice writer, what would it be?
Assuming
the novice writer is writing rather than talking about it, my advice is “Be a
sponge.” Take classes, attend lectures, read books on writing, network, learn
from writers who are higher in the food chain, and read and dissect
well-written and poorly written books in the genre you are writing in.
What
would you consider to be the best compliment a reader could give your book?
The
best compliment is that my book was fun and made the reader, for a little
while, forget about the real world.
What
are you working on now?
Because
Three Treats Too Many, the third book in Kensington’s Sarah Blair series,
was released on August 25, I’m busy juggling promoting it with writing the
fifth Sarah Blair mystery. I recently turned in the fourth book. It will be
published in June 2021.
THREE TREATS TOO MANY - published
August 25, 2020
When a romantic rival opens a competing restaurant in small-town
Wheaton, Alabama, Sarah Blair discovers murder is the specialty of the house .
. . For someone whose greatest culinary skill is ordering takeout, Sarah never expected to be co-owner of a restaurant. Even her Siamese cat, RahRah, seems to be looking at her differently. But while Sarah and her twin sister, Chef Emily, are tangled up in red tape waiting for the building inspector to get around to them, an attention-stealing new establishment—run by none other than Sarah's late ex-husband's mistress, Jane—is having its grand opening across the street.
Jane's new sous chef, Riley Miller, is the talk of Wheaton with her delicious vegan specialties. When Riley is found dead outside the restaurant with Sarah's friend, Jacob, kneeling over her, the former line cook—whose infatuation with Riley was no secret—becomes the prime suspect. Now Sarah must turn up the heat on the real culprit, who has no reservations about committing cold-blooded murder . . . Includes quick and easy recipes!
TWO BITES TOO MANY - 2020 Silver Falchion
Finalist - published October 2019
Things are finally looking up for Sarah Blair following her unsavory
divorce. Settled into a cozy carriage house with her sassy Siamese cat,
RahRah, she has somehow managed to hang on to her law firm receptionist job and
– if befriending flea-bitten strays at the local animal shelter counts – lead a
thriving social life. For once, Sarah almost has it together more than her
enterprising twin, Emily, a professional chef whose efforts to open a gourmet
restaurant have hit a real dead end…
When the president of the town bank and city council is murdered after
icing Emily’s business plans, all eyes are on the one person who left the scene
with blood on her hands – the twins’ sharp-tongued mother, Maybelle. Determined
to get her mom off the hook ASAP, Sarah must collect the ingredients of a
deadly crime to bring the true culprit to justice. But as neighbors turn
against her family, can she pare down the suspects before another victim lands
on the chopping block.
ONE TASTE TOO MANY - published January 2019
For
culinary challenged Sarah Blair, there’s only one thing scarier than cooking
from scratch—murder!Married at eighteen, divorced at twenty‑eight, Sarah Blair knew starting over would be messy, but things fall apart completely when her ex drops dead, seemingly poisoned by her twin sister’s award-winning rhubarb crisp. Now, with RahRah, her Siamese cat, wanted by the woman who broke up her marriage and her sister wanted by the police for murder, Sarah needs to figure out the right recipe to crack the case before time runs out. Unfortunately, for a gal whose idea of good china is floral paper plates, catching the real killer and living to tell about it could mean facing a fate worse than death—being in the kitchen!
[Recipes in One Taste Too Many include
Jell-O in a Can.]
Buy
Links:
Barnes
& Noble - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/three-treats-too-many-debra-h-goldstein/1135275342?ean=9781496719492
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