Around the Fire New Release Spotlight with Lori Pollard-Johnson

Happy Monday! I'm writing this post from the Rustic Barn Campground in Corinth NY. It's a small quiet campground in the Adirondacks in Upstate. Pete and I worked the weekend at Cedarbrook Christian Girls Camp nearby getting them ready for the season. While DH worked outside lifting and toting, hammering and chopping, I was the camp cook for all the volunteers, forty of them. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Phew, it was tiring but also rewarding. Enough about moi, lets get to today's recent release. 

Corpse in the Craftsman Cottage (A Flippin' Good Mystery Book 1)
by
Lori Pollard-Johnson 
Cozy Craft & Hobby Mysteries
 Cozy Animal Mystery
Amateur Sleuths
May 8, 2024

Thirty-four, newly divorced and parenting two little girls, Jan Weatherly is determined to make it on her own doing what she knows best: do-it-yourself home flipping. With her BFF Pam Bacchus by her side, she purchases their first fixer-upper—a cute Craftsman cottage with quick profit potential in rainy Rainier, Washington. With the first swing of her claw hammer, however, Jan pries back faux cedar paneling and reveals a nude, snow-haired corpse floating in a makeshift aquarium. If that didn’t fully sour their dreams in a plume of formaldehyde-tinged air, Sergeant Daniels arrives and bans the women from the crime scene. Will they continue sleuthing, despite Daniels’s warnings, or simply wait for their dreams of financial independence to fall apart?

From the author.
As a writer with a 1000-words-a-day habit, I’m often asked how I get started. What they mean, of course, is how do I settle down and focus in for some meaningful keyboard pounding? The answer is simple: thick socks.
Thick socks?
Yes, thick socks. 
Think of it this way (read to the cadence of “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie”:
If you give a writer thick socks,
She won’t feel the crumbs under her feet.
If she doesn’t feel the crumbs under her feet,
She won’t stop to sweep the floor.
If she doesn’t stop to sweep the floor, 
She won’t empty the dustpan into the garbage.
If she doesn’t empty the dustpan into the garbage, 
She won’t remember to take out the trash.
If she doesn’t remember to take out the trash,
She won’t see there’s a mouse in the garage eating cookies.
If she doesn’t see the mouse in the garage eating cookies,
She can walk straight to her desk and begin writing. 

Humor aside, you get my drift. Prioritize yourself and your writing, and you’ll suddenly discover everything else truly can wait. 
Get your copy.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW9C7W7P/thewildrosepr-20
https://wildrosepress.com/product/corpse-in-the-craftsman-cottage/​
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About the author.
Lori Pollard-Johnson is a retired educator and current wife, mama and grandma. She writes from her homes in Washington and Arizona, and has been published in fiction, nonfiction and poetry, in publications as diverse as Vegetarian Journal, Seattle, Black Belt, Bridal Connections and The Binnacle, in addition to five novels. When she’s not writing, she’s playing with her grandbabies, braiding rugs, perfecting her shavasana, swimming, hiking, practicing her releves, renovating fixer-uppers, reading, or watching javelinas dance through her backyard.