Ep 131: Exploring Wisconsin with Author Suzanne Bolden
This week we are getting a taste of Wisconsin’s unique landscape, including rolling dairy farms, the majestic Wisconsin River, and the charming fictional town of Harmony.
Author Suzanne Bolden shares her insights into the writing process, details about her current projects, and her love for the Driftless Area of Southwestern Wisconsin—a unique, unglaciated region where her Parker Photography Cozy Mysteries series is set.
In book one, the main character, Jackie, a world-famous photographer, returns to Harmony to run her family’s photography studio and soon finds herself in the middle of a murder mystery.
Are you a spreadsheet lover? Suzanne uses spreadsheets and sticky notes to track characters, clues, and story details which helps her to manage an impressive roster of around 170 characters across 12 books! That’s impressive organization!
Let’s head to Harmony, nestled along the banks of the Wisconsin River and surrounded by wooded hills and bluffs, and enjoy a fun mystery!
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Meet Suzanne Bolden
Suzanne Bolden is the pen name author Brenda Felber uses to write her cozy mystery series.
Suzanne aka Brenda loves watching reruns of Murder She Wrote episodes because back in the 80s she was too busy raising her children to watch the originals! She has always favored reading mystery books and now enjoys exploring the fictional towns, writing the fun characters, and creating all the twists and turns of cozy mysteries.
Brenda also writes a mystery series for young readers…the Pameroy Mystery Series.
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Exploring Wisconsin with Author Suzanne Bolden
In This Episode
We had so much fun chatting with Suzanne and here are some of the things we talked about:
- Being back in Wisconsin after time living elsewhere
- Rolling hills in Wisconsin
- Lake rivalry with Minnesota
- Her middle-grade series set in different states
- First cozy mystery published in 2021
- Writing a series that readers can binge-read
- Enjoying later-in-life heroines
- Using a spreadsheet to keep track of her characters across books in a series
- Maps in books
- Plotting vs pants-ing
- Her newest cozy mystery series set in the Florida panhandle has a couple cameos from the Parker photography series
- Fun titles for cozy mysteries
Books Mentioned in this Episode
Captured on Camera
Unsettled Things in Kentucky
Pour Decisions
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