by annestephenson | Jan 18, 2020 | Blog, Mystery, Short Story
Bitter End first appeared in the May, 2016, edition of Mystery Weekly Magazine. It was two o’clock in the morning on the eleventh of August and no one, except Louise Tellier Hannington Brown, had any idea where I was. She’d called me...
by annestephenson | Dec 6, 2019 | Blog, Romance
I love silver. In all its guises. From silver cuffs and statement rings to sugar bowls and tea pots, the lure of a finely wrought piece of silver is irresistible. The hours I’ve spent in the silver hall at the Victoria & Albert museum gliding from one...
by annestephenson | Nov 23, 2019 | Kids Books, Mystery, Writing
When I first started reading mysteries, it was all about Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys and their uncanny ability to get out of any small-town scrape that came their way. They didn’t need rescuing and neither do the kids in the books I like to write. Or the...
by annestephenson | Oct 22, 2019 | Blog, Mystery, Short Stories, Writing
When I first thought about bringing Bitter End, Oscar Chump and Bermuda Short together, I wasn’t sure what connected them. The differences were easy to pick out; each story is unique to its setting, both in time and place, and their central characters are as...
by annestephenson | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog, Writing
Picking up the phone and calling someone you have never met before, and likely has no idea who you are, can be daunting, especially if you’re interviewing an expert in a field of which you know very little. Like agriculture or mining. Who knew, for...
