Kilned at the Ceramic Shop

March 14, 2024

Kilned at the Ceramic Shop

Kilned at the Ceramic Shop: A Braddock Mystery
by Donna Clancy

About Kilned at The Ceramic Shop

Kilned at the Ceramic Shop: A Braddock Mystery
Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Setting – Maine
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Level Best Books (March 12, 2024)
Print length ‏ : ‎ 234 pages
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CV7J53PQ

Tammy Wright, a bestselling mystery author returns to her hometown to give her Aunt Clara a hand with running her ceramic shop during tourist season. She discovers that two vindictive realtors have been bullying her aunt and others into selling their properties to make room for new housing developments. Those who don’t comply pay the consequences.

Tammy stumbles upon a body, and when her aunt refuses to give in to either realtor she disappears without a trace.
With the help of an old schoolmate turned policeman, the writer must step out from behind her computer screen and her fictional mysteries to confront real life crime. If she doesn’t, she may never see her aunt again.

About Donna Clancy

Donna Clancy lives on Cape Cod. She has three grown children and one rescue Papillion named Zumiez. She has a seven-book deal with Level Best Books for The Braddock Mysteries, writes The Trash to Treasure and Paint and Sip cozy series’ for Summer Prescott Books Publishing as well as self-publishing The Shipwreck Cafe and Jelly Shop Mysteries. She loves to write in various genres including suspense, thriller, romance, and YA.

Q&A With the Author:

What was your inspiration for writing this book?
Many years ago, pre children, I ran the Otis Air Force Base ceramic shop. I always enjoyed my time working there. In the military, people come and go in your life. One minute they are taking your class and the next they have been transferred and are gone. I always thought it would be cool to write about a ceramic shop and someone disappearing who was connected with it.

What did you enjoy most about writing this book?
I spent nine years in Maine in a very small town out in the middle of nowhere. This book brought back memories of living in Cutler and the people I befriended while living there.

Do you have any other books you are working on that you can tell us about?
I am working on book #2 in the Braddock Mysteries, Bloom Where You Are Planted, which Level Best Books will release next year. I also write cozy mysteries for Summer Prescott Books Publishing. Number 7 in my Trash to Treasure series will be out soon and I just had book #1 of a new series, Paint and Sip Cozy Mysteries, go up on Presale on Amazon.
I also self-publish cozies and new books will be out this summer in my Shipwreck Café Mysteries and The Jelly Shop Mysteries.

Can you tell us about what you have planned for the future?
I was going to retire this year and become a full-time writer, but the cards held something different for me. I will work one more summer at the drive-in where I have been the cook for 19 years and then retire at the end of summer 2024.
I plan to continue with my writing until I am pushing up daisies.

Anything more you would like to say to your readers and fans?
I would like to say thank you. Your continued support has kept my spirits up and been the force that has kept me writing even when I wanted to give up. Any author out there would be lucky to have the readers I have and the fact my reader base grows every day. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and from every key on my keyboard.