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Elizabeth Spann Craig

Bestselling Cozy Mystery Author

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November 10, 2025

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Crafting Memorable Sidekicks for Cozy Mysteries

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethspanncraig.com Sidekicks are important characters in cozy mysteries. They keep our sleuth from having a lot of interior monologue about suspects and motives, for one thing (which can get [...]

September 23, 2019

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Cozy Mysteries: When Your Sleuth Figures Things Out

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig In every cozy mystery, there comes a time when the sleuth puts together various clues and realizes who the perpetrator is. But the timing of this revelation can [...]

April 26, 2019

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Brainstorming Clues for a Mystery

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig For me, brainstorming clues for my mysteries has always been one of the toughest parts of writing a mystery.  Mystery readers are incredibly savvy and they’re very good [...]

March 1, 2019

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Cozy Mystery Writing: Parceling Out Information

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Here’s a quick tip today for cozy mystery writers. Is your cozy mystery too short?  Do readers (or beta readers) say that they were able to figure out [...]

January 11, 2019

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Planting the Body in a Cozy Mystery

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig If you’re writing a cozy mystery, there are little things that come up sometimes.  Writing is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure process. You have so many different choices that can take [...]

December 10, 2018

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Developing a New Cozy Series: Nuts and Bolts

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Today I thought I’d cover my process for starting a new cozy series. This post isn’t intended to replace the more in-depth posts I created for developing a [...]

November 26, 2018

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Developing a Cozy Series: Hook

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig  It’s been a long time since I developed a new cozy mystery series.  Long enough so that I tried to remember exactly how I’d gone about it the [...]

September 28, 2018

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Writing the Cozy Mystery: The Right Motive

by Elizabeth Spann Craig, @elizabethscraig I can only imagine the number of murder motives that I’ve come across in the last 35 years that I’ve read and watched mysteries. While writing cozy mysteries, [...]

April 23, 2018

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Developing Your Cozy Mystery Story Concept

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One of the questions I’m most asked when I speak is how I come up with my ideas.  This,  of course, is probably the number one question that all [...]

October 6, 2017

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Things to Avoid in a Cozy Mystery

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Believe it or not, there are ways to make cozy mystery writing complex.  And I think cozies are fairly easy books to write. At first I titled this [...]

October 16, 2015

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Writing the Cozy Mystery–Points to Consider

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig This is the last post in my series on cozy writing. (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5  6.) Today I thought I’d wrap up a few things that are, [...]

October 9, 2015

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Writing the Cozy Mystery–Common Pitfalls

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig If you’re just joining us, I’ve been running a series on writing cozy mysteries. (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).  Today I thought I’d cover a few problem [...]

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