Author Archives: Lea Wait

About Lea Wait

I write mysteries - the Mainely Needlepoint, Shadows Antique Print and, coming in June of 2018, the Maine Murder mysteries (under the name Cornelia Kidd.) When I was single I was an adoption advocate and adopted my four daughters. Now my mysteries and novels for young people are about people searching for love, acceptance, and a place to call home. My website is http://www.leawait.com To be on my mailing list, send me a note at leawait@roadrunner.com

Me and those Guys in Black Suits

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Lea Wait

Lea Wait, here, thinking about how incidents years before can influence scenes an author writes now. For example: in my PIZZA TO DIE FOR there’s an Italian restaurant in New Jersey with a back room where “men in black suits” … Continue reading →

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How Important Are Seasons/Weather in a Novel?

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Lea Wait

Lea Wait, here. I’ve just finished writing two books, in two mystery series, that I hope you’ll be reading next year: one takes place in a cold Maine February, and the other in Maine’s mud season … early April. And … Continue reading →

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Dining at the Lobster Dock

Posted on September 26, 2017 by Lea Wait

Lea Wait, here. One of my favorite summer things to do in Maine is to sit outside on a wharf and eat fresh-from-the-water lobster, clams, oysters or mussels, sip a glass of wine or beer, and watch lobstermen unloading their … Continue reading →

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It’s a Pudding? Yup. A Quebecois Apple/Cranberry Pudding

Posted on September 11, 2017 by Lea Wait

Lea Wait, here. Many of you know that next June I will turn (part-time) into Cornelia Kidd, and write the Maine Café series, a food mystery series featuring two sisters who meet as adults and open a restaurant on a … Continue reading →

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Pizza To Die For: The Tale of a Tale

Posted on August 25, 2017 by Lea Wait

Lea Wait here, with the tale of a tale. It started when an agent suggested I write a contemporary mystery for children. My previous books for ages 8-12 were historical novels, not mysteries, (although many of my characters had secrets … Continue reading →

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Those Visitors From Away …

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Lea Wait

August in Maine! Pardon for making a very large generalization … but August and September are my two favorite months in Maine. Not TOO hot, not TOO cold … not TOO much rain … pretty much, just right. Other people … Continue reading →

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Fascination with the Sea

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Lea Wait

I have always loved the ocean. The boom of crashing waves; the silence of low tide; the rhythms of swells. The smell of salt air and rockweed. The cries of herring gulls and laughing gulls. The changing colors of the … Continue reading →

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Loving Our Big Blue Dumpster

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Lea Wait

There’s a big blue dumpster in my driveway. No, we’re not doing re-doing our kitchen or adding a new room, or even re-doing a room we already have. We’re cleaning up. Now, I want to assure you that my husband and … Continue reading →

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How I Smuggled Drugs into Calcutta

Posted on June 7, 2017 by Lea Wait

Lea Wait, here. And, yes, I did that. Do note: although they were illegal for me to bring with me, the drugs included aspirin, vitamins, medications for scabies and other skin infections, and antibiotics. I also took children’s tape recorders, incubator parts, balloons, hair … Continue reading →

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Will Illness Change a Relationship? Yes — and No

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Lea Wait

Lea Wait, here. On February 1 of last year I wrote on this site about the stroke my husband, Bob Thomas, had suffered the week before. I didn’t mention that we’d also just found out he had other medical issues: congestive heart failure and COPD/Emphysema. And … Continue reading →

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