Karen’s Killer Fixin’s **AUTHOR SPECIAL** with R.A. MUTH!
Welcome to my Friday bonus feature called Karen’s Killer Fixin’s **Author Special**!! Today, instead of one of my recipes, I will introduce you to a new author who will share a favorite recipe. Not only will you and I occasionally learn how to make something new and delicious, but we’ll also get a chance to check out some fantastic authors. Introducing author R.A. MUTH and her favorite recipe for Blueberry Upside Down Skillet!
THE FLUFFED AND FOLDED PHANTOM
The Haunted Housekeeping Series Book 5
BY R.A. MUTH
Blurb
Hazel and I have finally escaped the housekeeping business. We’ve put aside our toilet brushes for a new gig—The Salty Sirens, two best friends who cleanse homes of negative energy. No rubber gloves required.
Life is good. I’m engaged to my hunky Irishman, Rune, and we’ve finally moved in together. What could go wrong? That’s what I thought until a moving truck pulled up across the street and men started carrying my mother’s belongings into the house directly across from mine.
But Mom didn’t just buy a house. She also bought the town laundromat, which she’s convinced is haunted. When the laundromat’s most difficult customer turns up dead in a commercial dryer, folded like a fitted sheet, Mom’s new business becomes a crime scene.
And thanks to a very public argument with the victim, guess who the prime suspect is? That’s right. Me. As if solving a murder wasn’t enough, Mom’s new hairdresser friend gives me the creeps, Hazel’s boyfriend is acting strangely secretive, and Rune’s sweet whispers have turned to mewling—the feline kind.
Can I clear my name, save my mother’s business, and figure out why my fiancé is coughing up hairballs—before it’s too late?
THE FLUFFED AND FOLDED PHANTOM
The Haunted Housekeeping Series Book 5
BY R.A. MUTH
I Took Out Someone Who Annoyed Me (And It Wasn’t for Coffee)
There’s a special kind of satisfaction in writing cozy mysteries. Not the sitting in coffee shops part (although, yes please), but the part where you get to take someone deeply, profoundly irritating and remove them from the planet.
Fictionally. Let’s stay clear on that.
In THE FLUFFED AND FOLDED PHANTOM, I created a character who would test the patience of a saint. The kind of customer who complains about everything, treats people like lint on their shoe, and somehow always manages to be louder, ruder, and more wrong than anyone else in the room. You know the type. You’ve met them. You may have fantasized about locking them in a commercial dryer, popping in a couple of quarters, and letting it ride.
But I just went ahead and did it. (Again. In a book.) And the character? Let’s just say they weren’t entirely born from thin air.
That’s the beauty of writing. It gives you a safe place to explore exaggerated emotions. Annoyance becomes motive. Petty frustration becomes plot. All of a sudden, that one person who ruined your morning becomes the perfect catalyst for chaos, mystery, and just a hint of revenge.
Of course, in a cozy mystery, it’s never that simple. My main character didn’t actually commit the murder (she has enough going on with family drama and other quirks of small town life), but she does have to deal with the fallout—being accused, untangling secrets, and figuring out who really wanted this person gone.
Spoiler alert: she’s wasn’t the only one. When someone is that annoying, the suspect list practically writes itself.
A few years ago, my mother stayed with me in South Carolina. A snowstorm at her house turned a quick visit into a week-long stay, which meant she got a front-row seat to her author daughter at work. When she got home, she sent me a mug that reads: “Please do not annoy the writer, she may put you in a book and kill you.”
Honestly? She’s not wrong, because the real fun isn’t writing about crime. It’s the messy, complicated web of relationships left behind. Everyone has a reason. Everyone has a secret. And somewhere in that cozy chaos is the truth.
But I did enjoy writing that dryer scene in THE FLUFFED AND FOLDED PHANTOM just a little bit more than usual. Tee-hee.
About Author R.A. Muth…
R. A. Muth is a coffee addict who entertains readers with quirky characters who solve not-too-scary murders in places she’d like to live in real life. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys spending time at the beach with her family and binge-watching Netflix with her dog.
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Links to R.A.’s website, blog, books, #ad, etc.:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/43g7DIQ
http://amazon.com/author/ramuth http://beckymuth.com/newsletter
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I hope you enjoy R.A.’s favorite recipe on Karen’s Killer Fixin’s today. Happy Eating!
Karen
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COPYRIGHT NOTICE: If an author’s favorite recipe isn’t their own creation and came from an online site without alteration, you will now find the entire recipe through the link to that site as a personal recommendation. Thank you.
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Blueberry Upside Down Skillet
[From The Taste of Home]
NOTE FROM R.A.: This recipe combines the best of both worlds – blueberries from the Maine setting from the book and the cast iron skillet that’s a staple in Southern households. And it won a Taste of Home contest!
Happy Reading!
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Special Giveaway: Everyone can grab THE UNTIDY TROLL, the Haunted Housekeeping prequel, for FREE right here: https://BookHip.com/FVJSRGG. Happy Reading!
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Love books like this love the cover and excerpt and title would love to read a print copy of book so I can review