Category Archives: Julia’s Posts

“Use it up, wear it out…” by Julia Spencer-Fleming

Today I want to salute a venerable Maine tradition. It is a recreation area, a standard-bearer for environmentalism, a community center, and a boon to the pocketbooks of Mainers: the town dump. I know. If you live in a big … Continue reading →

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Can’t We All Just Get Along? Categories in Crime Fiction by Julia Spencer-Fleming

At a recent mystery conference, someone asked me if my books were cozies. “Um…um…” I said (in part because my mouth was full of a Krispy Kreme donut at the time) “I prefer to think of them as traditional mysteries.” … Continue reading →

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Try to Remember the Kind of September by Julia Spencer-Fleming

  I have a confession to make. September is not one of my favorite months. I feel like an iconoclast writing that. After all, everyone likes September, right? The new notebooks and the smell of sharpened pencils? Shopping for school … Continue reading →

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Friday Night Lights by Julia Spencer-Fleming

This past Friday my family took part in a classic American tradition. We were under the lights for a small-town high school football game. The Bonny Eagle Scots took on the Massabesic Mustangs on the Scot’s home turf. It was … Continue reading →

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It’s a Small World – of Crime Fiction Writers by Julia Spencer-Fleming

“Writing must be such a lonely profession.” The patron hands me a stack of audiobooks to check out. She drops in every two weeks at the tiny country library near my house to get books for her commute into Portland. … Continue reading →

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America’s Agatha Christie by Julia Spencer-Fleming

I’m writing this in Bar Harbor, on Mount Desert Island, one of the spots that has defined “summering in Maine” for more than a century. I have a spectacular view of Frenchman’s Bay, with the sun rising over the islands, … Continue reading →

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I Married Maine

by Julia Spencer-Fleming I’ll be the first to confess, I didn’t have a full understanding of what I was getting into when I agreed to marry a Mainer and move to Portland. I had met my boyfriend when we were … Continue reading →

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