Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It's our great pleasure to present ACF Bookens
Writes:
Cozy mysteries full of twists and turns, great friends, a bit of history, good food, and a taste of social justice.
About:
ACF Bookens loves rural life and enjoys the fact that she can hear the stream near her house in the quiet of a moonlit night. She enjoys hanging out with her pre-school age son at the local playgrounds, where she is continually astounded at the fact that his shoulder doesn’t dislocate on the monkey bars. When she’s not writing or playing, she loves to cross-stitch, walk with her rescue dogs, and garden. She plans to try salsify in her garden for the first time this year.
What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match:
My ideal reader for BLOOD AND BACK STITCHES is:
- Interested in fun, warm murder mysteries.
- Loves history and the untold stories of our communities.
- Appreciates friendships that are imperfect but deep and loyal.
- Has an interest in justice and how we learn to love each other more wonderfully.
- Adores dogs and cats and allows them to sleep on the furniture or spoils them with toys.
- Eats with passion.
What to expect if we're compatible:
If we’re compatible, you’ll find that you have 16 cozies to read with more on their way (almost) every month. You’ll get to know a (fictionalized) bit about the part of Virginia, where I live, as well as the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where I love to visit. You’ll meet strong, business-owning women who are, maybe, a bit too curious for their own good and who, often, get themselves in a bit of trouble because of their curiosity. Plus, you’ll have the chance to join a community of readers who love books almost as much as you do.
Stitches In Crime #7
Log cabins are supposed to be full of inspiring stories, not bloody bones.
When Paisley Sutton gets the chance to salvage from her first antique log cabin, she is ecstatic, until she finds the body of a murdered man in the back room. When she and her friends begin to look into who he is and why he’s dead, they uncover a heap of stories no one in town wants them to know.
Will the truth set them free or get them killed?
Mystery Cozy | Mystery Woman Sleuth [Self Published, On Sale: March 22, 2022, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781952430411 / ]
ACF Bookens loves a good mystery, a quaint bookshop, and a good cup of coffee. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where she takes joy in the mountain views and the quiet back roads. She lives with her son Milo and a beautiful rescue hound who inspired Mayhem in her St. Marin's Cozy Mystery Series.
Aslan, the cat in her books, is based on her departed first cat by that name, who spent an inordinate amount of time digging up her houseplants.
In her books, Bookens addresses issues of justice and writes with intention to disrupt the white supremacy that says that "whiteness" is normal by making purposeful note of every character's ethnicity. She is weary of books that assume everyone is white unless the author says otherwise because being white is not the default of reality.
Her hope is that readers enjoy escaping into her stories and are challenged, just a little, to make themselves better people and the world a better place from the reading.
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