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About Barbara Ross
Barbara Ross is the author of twelve Maine Clambake Mystery novels and six novellas. Her books have been nominated for multiple Agatha Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and have won the Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. She lives in Portland, Maine. Readers can visit her website at www.maineclambakemysteries.comA Writer’s Year
Hi folks–I’m on a February 1, double deadline, so today I’m rerunning an old favorite. See you next time. Barb A Writer’s Year By Noel Farquar, author of The Mean Streets and Fire Hydrants of Chicago, Ballou O’Brien Mystery#1 January: … Continue reading →
Moving to Maine, Part 2
Move to Maine they said. It’s not as cold and snowy as you think, they said. The ocean mitigates the temperature on the coast, they said. To which I say, “HA!” Actually, I’m not in Maine. We’re on our annual … Continue reading →
Stowed Away Released
by Barb in Virginia enjoying the holidays with family Yesterday was the release day for the sixth Maine Clambake Mystery, Stowed Away. The book takes place in Busman’s Harbor as an enormous motor yacht waits for a major retrofit in … Continue reading →
Gardens Aglow at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
by Barb, who’s beginning to feel it’s a lot like Christmas A few years ago, I had the chance to take a class sponsored by Sisters in Crime New England with Donald Maass based on his book Writing the Breakout … Continue reading →
Happy Thanksgiving: My Grandmother’s Yellow Turnips
Yesterday, I made my grandmother Ethel McKim’s yellow turnips. I’ve written before about the recipe books she made for my sister-in-law and me the year before she died. Yellow turnips (also called rutabagas) were a particular feature of family feasts … Continue reading →
Merry Christmas–in Books
by Barb, who voted in Maine for the first time on Tuesday. Even after all these years of voting, it was kind of thrilling No, I’m not rushing the holiday. I promise. It’s just that Christmas books typically come out … Continue reading →
All the Happy People
by Barb, posting from the couch her living room in Portland, Maine, which is a cool thing all by itself As some of you know, the home we own in Boothbay Harbor was bought and run by my mother-in-law, Olga … Continue reading →
Where are the Maine Crime Writers at Bouchercon 2017?
by Barb, who is already in Toronto happily awaiting her fellow Maine Crime Writers Four of the Maine Crime Writers, Brenda Buchanan, Dick Cass, Bruce Robert Coffin, and Barbara Ross, will be in Toronto this week for Bouchercon, the World … Continue reading →
Funny and Weird, the Police and Me
by Barb, in her first post as a fulltime resident of Maine! (Please, don’t ask me about all the boxes.) The last few times I’ve posted I’ve written about my interactions with the Boothbay Harbor Police Department. (You can read … Continue reading →
Small Town Cops and Me–Part II
by Barb who is writing this in Milwaukee The last time I posted here, I wrote about my interactions with our small police force in Boothbay Harbor this summer. Unlike the murders I write about in the Maine Clambake Mysteries, … Continue reading →
