1--What is the title of your latest release?
A COLD NOSE FOR MURDER. It’s the third book in my Chatty Corgi mystery series.
2--What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
A banker turned baker and her charming corgi sidekick solve crime and bake cake in a Cornish seaside village.
3--How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
I’d visited Cornwall while researching another project and had a wonderful time. So, I based my village of Trevena on the village I’d stayed in.
4--Would you hang out with your heroine in real life?
Absolutely. She’d bring cake and make tea.
5--What are three words that describe your hero?
Since my hero’s a corgi, I’ll have to say sweet, furry and zoomy.
6--What’s something you learned while writing this book?
Since one of my point of view characters is a dog, I had to learn a lot about dog behavior and how dogs experience the world.
7--Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
I always edit as I draft. It helps keep me grounded in the details of the story.
8--What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
Gosh. What day is it?
9--Describe your writing space/office!
I belong to a co-working space, so my writing space is a desk in an open loft-style office which I share with a bunch of other freelancers/remote workers.
10--Who is an author you admire?
Just one? Daphne DuMaurier. She wrote one of the best novels of all time, and after that did and wrote exactly as she chose.
11--Is there a book that changed your life?
Several. But the first one was The Tombs of Autuan by Ursula K. LeGuin. That was the book that flipped the switch in my brain and made me decide I wanted to be an author.
12--Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published)
I’ve been writing and publishing full-time since the mid-nineties, but let me tell you, the yes call never gets old, and each one has some things in common. I listen to the offer, I say, “sounds good,” a lot, and “I’ll keep an eye out for that email,” and “I look forward to working with you.” And then I hang up and cheer my fool head off and dance around the living room.
13--What’s your favorite genre to read?
After mystery, I am a sucker for a good rom-com.
14--What’s your favorite movie?
This is a tough one. I love movies and am a total old movie geek, so there’s almost too many to choose from. I love Rear Window with Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly, The Prestige, with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, Summerstock with Gene Kelly and Judy Garland, The Barretts of Wimpole Street with Norma Shearer and Fredrick March…how much more space have you got?
15--What is your favorite season?
Fall. I love the cool days and watching the trees change color.
16--How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
Beyond waking up in the morning and saying Yep, still here. That’s good,? I am very low-key when it comes to birthdays. Usually, it’s time with my husband and a nice dinner.
17--What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
I just finished Mangos, Mambo and Murder by Raquel Reyes. It was fabulous.
18--What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
Dessert.
19--What do you do when you have free time?
I read, I embroider, take walks, go to the movies, and if the weather’s good, sit on the porch and watch the world go by. I am also shamefully addicted to cooking competition shows.
20--What can readers expect from you next?
In addition to the Chatty Corgi series, I write historical mysteries as Darcie Wilde. My latest in the Useful Woman series, THE SECRET OF THE LOST PEARLS, will be out in December.
A Chatty Corgi Mystery # 3
When Emma Reed moved to the Cornish village of Trevena, she was looking forward to making new friends, opening up a small tea shop, and taking plenty of brisk walks with her talking dog, Oliver. But when a valuable motorcycle and an old skeleton are found together under the local pub, Emma’s antique dealing friends David and Charles become prime suspects in a forty year old mystery. The local gossip is soon flowing faster than tea in Emma’s shop, and old secrets are being unearthed right along with the old bones.
Although David and Charles insist they have nothing to do with the skeleton, they quickly come under police suspicion. To save their friends, Emma and Oliver will need to dig deep...
Mystery Amateur Sleuth | Mystery Cozy [Berkley, On Sale: April 5, 2022, Mass Market Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780593197127 / eISBN: 9780593197134]
Jennifer Hawkins is a Michigan-based author of cozy mysteries. She's also a mom, binge reader, corgi enthusiast, and a lover of All Things British. For tea, she prefers a second flush Darjeeling with milk. She also makes a killer (so to speak) lemon curd.
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