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Category Archives: Dorothy’s Posts
Let Them Eat Rock Cakes
Dorothy Cannell here, hoping you’ll forgive me for not doing a longer post, but the fact is that I’ve got a book due very soon and I’m a bit behind. Indeed, I’m in that place that some of my fellow … Continue reading
Book Events
Dorothy Cannell here. Had a great time at Boothbay Book Festival last Saturday. Appreciate Sherman’s providing copies of my books Murder at Mullings and Sea Glass Summer for sale. Enjoyed talking to readers.and being at a table with other Maine crime … Continue reading
Chez Michel
Dorothy Cannell: I love late spring in Maine even accompanied by days of rain and still chilly temperatures. Bliss to look out my windows and see green everywhere and walk around the cove near our house with dog Teddy … Continue reading
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Tagged Chez Michel, Dorothy Cannell, Lincolnville Maine, Maine restaurants, Mother's Day
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Dorothy’s Weekend Away
Dorothy Cannell here: Arrived back home Monday evening after a fabulous long weekend at Malice Domestic 26, in Bethesda Maryland. We have a very dear friend, Barbara, visiting us. She usually comes out from England for a couple of weeks each … Continue reading
Sugar Bears
In which Dorothy Cannell discovers that they are not something you should eat . . . SUGAR BEARS There are instances (admittedly few and far between) when I think I deserve elevation to sainthood. Last evening was one of those times. … Continue reading
Love Affair
Dorothy Cannell: Big excitement two weeks ago. My husband Julian returned from playing bridge with a box under his arm along with the announcement that he’d made a purchase for me. I’d have preferred he’d walked it in on a leash … Continue reading
Spring Cleaning
Dorothy Cannell : My 2014 New Year’s resolution was to get dug into 2013’s spring cleaning. Several years ago I read or heard that the best way to preserve wood furniture was to paste wax … Continue reading
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Tagged Agatha Christie, Ellis Peters, Fallen into the Pit, Pinesol, Pledge, Rex Stout
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Struggling with the A Drive, an Ice Storm, and Writer’s Funk in General
Dorothy Cannell: For the past couple of weeks I’ve been wracking my brains about what to write this month. Ideas flitted in and out only to be discarded as mundane, already likely to have been written about by someone with a … Continue reading
A Saturday Morning Adventure
This past Saturday was ‘Buy Local Day’ in Belfast, an annual event to promote small local merchants. During the week I had spoken to my sister Jean, now a resident of three months in Maine, about our making a shopping … Continue reading
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Tagged Belfast Maine, Coyote Moon, Dorothy Cannell, The Good Table, Traci's Diner
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Hope
by Dorothy Cannell This week I’ve been thinking about my granddaughter Hope, now eleven. I received an e-mail from my editor at Severn House asking if I wished to include a dedication and any acknowledgements for Murder at Mullings. This … Continue reading
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Tagged Belfast Maine, dedications, Dorothy Cannell, granddaughters, Murder at Mullings
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