Cooking Up Mystery and More with GP Gottlieb
Alex welcomes the delightful G.P. Gottlieb, author and podcaster for a fun, free-ranging discussion about writing and being a writer, the role of food, the pandemic, the Chicago backdrop in her work, and so much more.
\nAfter recovering from breast cancer in 2015, she took baking classes for fun and began writing in earnest, melding two passions, nourishment for mind and body and recipe-laced murder mysteries. As host for New Books in Literature, a podcast channel on the New Books Network, Gottlieb has interviewed nearly 170 authors. Her third novel Charred: A Whipped and Sipped Mystery #3 will be published this spring.
\nIn this third book of Gottlieb\u2019s Whipped and Sipped Mystery series (published by DX Varos), it\u2019s May of 2020, and Alene\u2019s three children are doing school from home. She worries about her business, her employees, and the homeless man shouting outside her caf\xe9. Then an employee\u2019s boyfriend finds a body at a nearby fire site with a Whipped Sipped carryout bag in the jacket pocket, and Alene\u2019s shady uncle turns up \u2013 another mystery to solve. At least the caf\xe9 is limping along with carryout orders \u2013 and Alene is considering an employee\u2019s suggestion that they sell cookies shaped like the virus and called COOKIES AGAINST COVID.
\nListen in and learn:
\n1. Why and when did she decide to start writing culinary mysteries?
\n2. What do mysteries and food have in common?
\n3. Plotting Vs. Pantsing
\n4. What a cozy mystery isn't
\n5. Which celebrity she thinks Alex resembles
\n6. Her advice to writers who tend to diminish their own work
\n...and more!
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\nWebsite: https://gpgottlieb.com
\n\n\n\nVisit Alex Greenwood's website: JAlexanderGreenwood.com.
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\nThis Mysterious Goings On Podcast episode was recorded and mixed at Green Shebeen Studios in beautiful Kansas City, Missouri. Copyright 2023, all rights reserved. No reproduction, excerpting, or other use without written permission.
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