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Peg Herring
Peg Herring

 Peg Herring is the author of the critically acclaimed Simon & Elizabeth Historical Mysteries, the award-winning Dead Detective Mysteries, and the intriguing Loser Mysteries, as well as standalone contemporary mysteries and women's fiction. Peg lives in Michigan with her husband of many decades.

She is also Maggie Pill, who writes cozy mysteries such as the Sleuth Sisters, Cats & Crimes, and Trailer Park Tales.

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Aunt Marge

Tranquil Peace or Death Trap?

Gwen Trobert is a mess: grief-stricken, drug-dependent, and convinced her husband is cheating. When Aunt Marge, a woman she hardly knows, offers to let Gwen stay at her farm in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Gwen sees it as a chance to reflect on the future and heal herself.

But Marge's farm, Giiwe, is a place of...

Sister Saint, Sister Sinner

How do years of sharing everything, from genetics to hairbrushes, result in people so different from each other?
Three sisters raised in Michigan follow completely different pathways. The oldest, Nettie, threw away every advantage she had when she was still in her teens, and her mystified parents and siblings watched in horror as she spent years...

Deceiving Elvera

This compelling story focuses on friendship, love, loss, and the life-changing power we gain by helping others. Spanning the decades from the 1960s to the present, the events play out in two primary locations, Thailand and Michigan’s Mackinac Island.

On a cruise ship in the Gulf of Thailand, passenger Elvera Tharp, known as Miss E, has a...

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A Cozy Version of Me The world of mystery can be divided roughly into three

The world of mystery can be divided roughly into three groups: hard-boiled mystery, traditional mystery, and cozy mystery (once called chick-lit, but that expanded into geezer-lit, etc.) I write in two of those.

Hard-boiled mystery is tough and often violent. I don't do that. Can't might be a better word.

Peg Herring's mysteries are traditional. The protagonist is in search of a criminal, possibly hired to do so, possibly working to protect an innocent party, sometimes herself. Violence is not...

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Is Writing a Dying Art? No.Oh, I need to say more than that? Okay.Writing

No.

Oh, I need to say more than that? Okay.

Writing can't die, because people will always want to express themselves, choosing their own words and putting them into their own "right order." While some will accept AI's version of writing, real readers will look beyond auto-generated wordage and seek out authors with something to say that matters to them.

Who will that be? People like me. There are a lot of us out there.

Why are we better than a machine at what we do? Let me list some reasons.

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The Dreaded Author Blurb (Sorry-the photo here has nothing to do with the

(Sorry-the photo here has nothing to do with the topic today. I just realized I should be offering something other than the little typewriter picture every time I write!)

There was an article on Facebook this morning about book blurbs. These back-of-the-book passages used to be teasers about the story and the characters, but increasingly, they've become a list of authors (usually from the same publishing house) who say what a great book this is and what a great talent the author is.

When I...

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