🏡 From the Coast / From the Country

🏡 This week from the Country

My mornings start with birds arguing outside my window and of course, my morning coffee. Days are starting to warm up here in the upstate of South Carolina.

This week has felt pleasantly ordinary, a little writing, a little catching up on things around the house (does the laundry pile ever go down?) and a few moments where I actually remembered to slow down instead of racing through the day.

🍰 Cozy Corner: Little Comforts & Clever Finds

This week’s cozy find:

Frozen cookie dough balls.

Not glamorous. Not groundbreaking. But absolutely one of my favorite “future me will be grateful” tricks.

Whenever I make cookies, I freeze a few extra dough balls in a bag so I can bake just two or three whenever the mood hits. There’s something so comforting about warm cookies without having to make an entire batch.

Especially on rainy afternoons… or while reading a cozy mystery.

If you have a favorite little kitchen shortcut, I’d love to hear it!

✍️ From the Writer’s Desk

This week in my writing world…

Now that Death on a Dinner Cruise has officially launched, my brain is doing that funny thing where it wants both a break… and to immediately dive into the next story.

And yes, A Corpse at the Clambake is definitely starting to take shape. Enough so that I'll be contacting my cover designer soon.

I’ve been scribbling down scene ideas, possible troublemakers, and a few details that are making me very excited about this one already. I’m starting to get that feeling where the characters begin nudging their way into conversations in my head. I'm also gone down way to many Google black holes about ways to die at a clambake. (Scary?)

Which usually means I’m in trouble 😄

And if you’ve already read Death on a Dinner Cruise, I’d truly love to hear what you think. Leaving a review is one of the kindest ways to support an author, and I appreciate every single one more than you know 💛

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🍷 Dishin’ with Deb

Just between us…

What’s your favorite kind of “cozy day”?

Rainy day with a book? Baking something good? A quiet afternoon with no plans at all?

Hit reply and tell me—I love hearing from you (and I promise I won’t gossip… much 😉)

💛 What I’m Loving Lately

This week: What I’m listening to

Lately I’ve been gravitating toward softer music while I write—nothing too distracting, just something nice in the background while I work through scenes and ideas. Yacht Rock anyone...does that age me? LOL

If you have a favorite artist, playlist, or even audiobook recommendation, send it my way!

🔐 A Little Extra for You

Before you go, don’t forget you can always pop over to my website for a little extra something just for subscribers. Watch for Jonah's backstory to hit later this week! Consider it your key to the cozy corner 😊

👉 deboradennis.com

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Thank you for spending a little part of your day with me 💛

Until next time...

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