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I wish I was writing. This is me working on my taxes. Who knew being a writer involved so many receipts.

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Readers have to be able to see themselves in our writing.

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My advice for today.

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Happy St. David's Day.
The background to this picture is the town of Tenby which inspired the creation of Meredith Island, the setting of my Welsh mystery series.

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In A Killing Cold, my 3rd Welsh mystery novel coming in June, one of my characters carves his fiancé a love spoon. I'll be giving away a love spoon to one of my newsletter subscribers. If you'd like chance to win, please go to www.alicefitzpatrick.com/newsletter
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The CNIB selected A Dark Death, the 2nd book in my Meredith Island Mysteries, to record as an audiobook. The 1st book in the series, Secrets with the Water, was recorded last year and is now available in select libraries & Audible.
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Headshot of Alice Fitzpatrick, against a photographer's grey and brown backdrop

The cover of A Dark Death, by Alice Fitzpatrick. It's a minimalist depiction of the sun setting over dark hills along the horizon, dark water in the middle, and dark land and flowers in the foreground. The sky has large gray clouds in it

Read @sharonberg.bsky.social's interview of @alicefitzp.bsky.social re: her novel A Dark Death (pub. Stonehouse) in Iss 33!

.. Now that I’m older, I often reflect on my past decisions, and how different my life has turned out from how I imagined it would be ..

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I’m about to launch myself into the festive world of Christmas markets. My first will be at the Beaches Presbyterian Church at Queen Street East & Glen Manor Drive, Toronto. There are three more coming up (2 in Toronto & 1 in Oakville). I'll keep you posted.
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Toronto, Ontario

I'll be at Word on the Street at the River Street booth on Sat. Sept. 27 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm, David Picault Square, 215 King Street West (by Roy Thomson Hall).
Please stop by to grab a signed book, some Meredith Island Mysteries swag, & have a chat.

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I'll be at the Canada Literature Festival on Sat Oct 4th where I'll be on a panel discussing the appeal of crime writing at 12 pm at the Noel Ryan Theatre, reading at 4 pm, & selling books from 12 pm to 7 pm at Mississauga Celebration Square.

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#ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with Alice Fitzpatrick #author of A Dark Death | @alicefitzp.bsky.social @stonehousepbl I'm delighted to be joined by author Alice Fitzpatrick today. Alice lives in Canada but would love to live in Wales and her book is set on an island off the Welsh coast. A Dark Death was published by Stonehouse Publishing in June this year. Over to Alice to tell us all about it. Tell me THREE things about your latest book…

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I'm delighted to be joined by author Alice Fitzpatrick today. Alice lives in Canada but would love to live in Wales and her book is set on an island off the Welsh coast. A Dark…

How Do You Write a Novel with 14 Different Authors? Carefully. It started with After Party. Not an after party, but “The After Party,” as in the Apple TV show that turned heads in 2022. Bestselling thriller novelists Joe Finder and Gregg Hurwitz had watched it…

I love the idea of 14 people writing a thriller. Though I'm not sure I'd want to participate.

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A Day in My Life ~ Kate Galway by Alice Fitzpatrick It still surprises me that early morning is my favorite time of the day. It wasn’t always so. For over thirty years, I reluctantly dragged myself out of bed at six every weekday to teach secondary …

I’m delighted to be featured in Dru’s Book Musings. Kate Galway & Siobhan Fitzgerald, my two crime-fighting friends from my Meredith Island Mysteries, are looking forward to you to hearing all about a day in Kate's life. wp.me/p9nmDY-iPf
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TOMORROW NIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm host @hollay.bsky.social talks to @alicefitzp.bsky.social “A Dark Death” (Stonehouse Publishing) & Chris Hutchinson “Lost Signal” @palimpsestpress.bsky.social TUNE IN TOMORROW NIGHT!

Find Your Ideal Readers by Attending a Genre Convention | Jane Friedman After attending a convention in order to connect with readers, one author examines what went well and what she’ll do differently next time.

An excellent article with advice for attending writers' conferences.

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Agatha Christie Will Save Us All A couple of years ago, I quit my job as a tech journalist and moved to the desert to open a bookstore. My reasons were mostly to do with burnout: The dread of waking up every morning wondering what…

According to one bookseller, the sales of mysteries and thrillers have doubled since the recent American election. Why are so many people turning to mysteries in this troubled times?

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For those people who laughed at me when I used to walk home from school reading a book . . .

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The book A Dark Death by Alice Fitzpatrick (Stonehouse Publishing) shows a stylized view of water and cloudy skies in shades of blue

"... for any mystery fans who are intrigued by everyday life that seems idyllic but underneath this desired setting lurks the potential motive for murder and criminal intent." Guest bookgaga review of A Dark Death by @alicefitzp.bsky.social (Stonehouse Publishing) bookgagabooks.ca/2025/07/20/i...

Everyone is bringing out their beach reads list. How about a book that actually has a beach in it?

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Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in Buckingham Palace So, you’re in Buckingham Palace. The official London residence of the sovereign, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of His other Realms and Territo…

As any writer will tell you, the setting of a book becomes a character & opens up unlimited possibilities, esp. if you write crime novels. But what if the setting is the most famous palace in the world? No, not Mar-a -Lago -- Buckingham Palace.
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A Dark Death by Alice Fitzpatrick Reviewed by Heather McBriarty

I just received the most wonderful review of A Dark Death by Heather McBriarty of The Seaboard Review of Books. I just had to share it. Thank you, Heather. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/a-dark-dea...
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The cover of A Dark Death by Alice Fitzpatrick. An ocean cliffside is illustrated in grey-blues, with a bright red sun visible behind grey clouds reflected in the choppy water.

Our #fridayreads pick is @alicefitzp.bsky.social's newest instalment of her Meredith Island Mystery series, A DARK DEATH (Stonehouse Publishing). Read our featured excerpt – of some archaeology students making a chilling discovery – and learn more about the book here: alllitup.ca/excerpted-a-...

49th Shelf is giving away copies of the books on their July Reading List, and that includes A Dark Death. If you'd like to enter to win a copy of my book, click below.

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Tell Me - Alice Fitzpatrick - Jennifer Brozek In today’s Tell Me, Alice Fitzpatrick introduces me to the concept of grieving non-events, also called non-finite grief. Mourning a Life that Never Was

In A Dark Death, amateur sleuth Kate is forced to deal with her feelings of regret over never having attained the life she'd always imaged she'd have, known as mourning a non-event. I write about this & ways to deal with it in @jenniferbrozek.bsky.social‬'s blog

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Like every teacher, I couldn't wait for summer for all the reasons listed below. But mostly because it was the only time when I had uninterrupted time to write.

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Can't wait to share my latest book with everyone at MOTIVE. I'll also be selling & signing my books in the Crime Writers Canada authors tent, this Saturday & Sunday, 11am-5pm, Victoria College, U of T, Toronto. Pop by & we can talk about crime and all things Welsh.
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