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Anna: I have read Patricia Rockwell's mystery, Sounds of Murder , and am very pleased that she is here today to talk about her book. Thank you so much for visiting Anna's Adornments, Patricia. Normally, this is a blog about the craft of jewellery-making, but today we get to learn about the craft of writing and think about reading, and what pleasure a really good book can give. Why is your novel called a ' cozy ' and 'an acoustic mystery'? I've heard of the term 'cozy' before, but not 'an acoustic mystery'. Patricia Rockwell : Anna, thank you for inviting me to your blog to discuss my new cozy mystery, Sounds of Murder . My book is a cozy mystery, actually I’ve labeled it “an acoustic mystery” because my heroine, Pamela Barnes, is a psychology professor who studies sound and conducts research using acoustic technology. When one of her colleagues is murdered, she resolves to find the killer using an accidentally made recording of the actua...

We have company tomorrow! Please come back and read the interview with Patricia Rockwell about her new cozy & publishing company. Monday, August 30th!! ------ Thank you for advertising with me on my Entrecard-widget from August 23rd to 29th, 2010. Please visit these fine sites: Monday, August 23rd - The Modern Mom Tuesday, August 24th - Meow Diaries Wednesday, August 25th - Mariuca's Perfume Gallery Thursday, August 26th - Pictures of a Bygone Era Friday, August 27 th - Vintage Fun for All Saturday August 28th - Sara Cat writes / Sara Katt skriver Sunday August 29th - The Red Cat Society Best wishes, Anna First Commenter: Ann of Ann's Snap Edit & Scrap

Today is Wednesday. Yes, it is actually Wednesday, and time to play my two favourite letter-memes, abcWednesday and Mrs. Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday. Both have the letter "P" this week. What a joy! I love the letter "P"! There are lots of really fun P-words, such as present, pet (here's Calle-Boy-Cat , my husband's pet , lying on tissue- paper normally used to wrap presents and pack packages .) parent (yes, I am the parent of this child [Erik 8], who is presently pestering this particularly pretty pet !) package, parcel, post, pull, please , and if I stick to my blog's main subject, there are jewellery-words like the beads that are made of pearls , peridot , petrified wood, pewter , pietersite , plastic, polyclay , porcelain , prehnite and pyrite , as well as other jewellery-related terms such as paddle pins, pendant, pins, plaques, pliers , polish, pouches, prayer box, prongs, prong pusher and prong lifter . Other crafts and industries have ...