Category Archives: Lea’s Posts

An Excerpt from Lea Wait’s THREAD AND BURIED

Posted on November 27, 2019 by kaitlynkathy

Lea Wait’s Thread and Buried hit bookstore shelves and ebook outlets yesterday. Here, for your reading enjoyment, is an excerpt from the beginning of the novel, number nine in the Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series, supplied by Lea’s publisher, Kensington Books. … Continue reading →

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The Creation of Lea Wait’s THREAD AND BURIED, Part Two

Posted on November 21, 2019 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. This is the second of two posts taken from emails I received from Lea during the time she was working on Thread and Buried, the ninth Mainely Needlepoint mystery. At the same time, she was … Continue reading →

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The Creation of Lea Wait’s THREAD AND BURIED, Part One

Posted on November 20, 2019 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. Today and tomorrow I’ll be sharing some gently edited excerpts from emails I received from Lea during the time she was working on Thread and Buried, the ninth Mainely Needlepoint mystery. She received a diagnosis … Continue reading →

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My Crazy Health Update

Posted on July 5, 2019 by Lea Wait

So — last year about this time I posted that I’d just been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Not a fun thing to happen. Especially when my oncologist added that I had 4-6 weeks to live. Having just survived … Continue reading →

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Searching the Past for Stories

Posted on May 28, 2019 by Lea Wait

Historical research is done by authors, librarians, historians, genealogists, doctoral candidates, homeowners wondering about the history of their homes, and grade school students reluctantly fulfilling classroom assignments. I’ve done all of the above, at various points in my life. But … Continue reading →

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Weathervanes … Which Way Is the Wind Blowing?

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Lea Wait

Lea Wait, here. Most people of “a certain age,” including me, immediately recognize Bob Dylan’s famous line from his Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965): “You don’t need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows.” I think of that line often, especially … Continue reading →

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Thread On Arrival — Arriving Next Week!

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Lea Wait

Lea Wait here, looking forward to the April 30 publication date for the 8th in my Mainely Needlepoint series. (With thanks to everyone who’s followed Angie Curtis and her friends in Haven Harbor, Maine! Without readers … there would be … Continue reading →

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Happiest Days

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Lea Wait

All of us have phases in our lives … periods of our lives we remember for what we were doing (School? Jobs?) or where we were living, or what was happening in our family or who was important (for good … Continue reading →

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“What IF?”

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Lea Wait

In this month’s Midwest Book Review one of my Mainely Needlepoint books (THREAD THE HALLS) is reviewed. For an author’s books to be reviewed is not unusual. In this case, however, it was, for two reasons. First, because THREAD THE … Continue reading →

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Polishing

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Lea Wait

Lea Wait, here, posting this blog from “Writers’ Jail.” That’s what my friend and fellow author Barbara Ross calls it when your manuscript deadline is fast approaching, and you’re behind schedule.  Their schedule, your schedule … it doesn’t matter how … Continue reading →

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