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A Letter from Jenn McKinlay
Dear Reader,
People often ask where I get my ideas for my mysteries.
Usually, I just shrug because I have no idea. In fact, I
remember being fully reclined in the dentist’s
chair, staring at a poster of a kitten clinging to a tree
branch that read “Hang in there” that some
thoughtful dental employee had tacked to the ceiling when
the grim realization hit that my hygienist was WAY too
enthusiastic about her work and I needed to find a happy
place and quickly. Naturally, I started mentally
murdering someone (not my hygienist, she was after all
very nobly trying to save me from plaque and gum disease)
and by the time I got out of the chair, I had fully
plotted a new book that I had not even had an inkling
about before the chair made its original descent.
Who’d have thunk?
Now with Sprinkle with Murder, I have to
say, it was a little more in my face. In the course of one
week, I listened as a soon to be married coworker agonized
over what flavor cupcakes to have in her wedding cake
tower, then my agent blogged that when she traveled she
always checked out the local cupcake bakery, and finally,
a dear friend stopped by my house to tell me that a
cupcake bakery had opened nearby and that they sold shots
of frosting. Seriously, shots of frosting! It was the
rule of threes and just like that I knew I had to set a
mystery series in a cupcake bakery.
As soon as I flipped the lid on my laptop, Melanie Cooper,
Angie DeLaura and Tate Harper introduced themselves as my
thirty-something, cupcake loving characters who had just
opened a bakery called Fairy Tale Cupcakes. Because all
relationships are complicated, the three childhood friends
brought some baggage. First, Tate is engaged to Christie
Stevens, a bridezilla whom neither Mel nor Angie can
stand. Second, Angie is secretly in love with Tate and
has been since they were children. And finally, when
Christie is found dead clutching one of Mel’s
cupcakes, Mel becomes suspect number one and it is up to
her and Angie to find the real killer to save their
business and their lives.
Whether you like cupcakes, mysteries or just laughing with
good friends, Fairy Tale Cupcakes is the bakery for you.
So stop in and stay awhile!
Jenn McKinlay
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