Friday Five: Q&A with cozy fiction writer Sally Bayless

Cozy mystery writer Sally Bayless.

Today’s Friday Five is with Sally Bayless, a novelist who writes in the “cozy” mystery genre. Sally and I met many years ago when I was a reporter for a now-defunct daily newspaper and Sally was a summer intern. Since that time, she graduated from journalism school, worked as a newspaper copy editor (remember those?), and ended up in corporate communications, where “I edited everything from an article on gastrointestinal scopes to a report on the use of depleted uranium in armor-piercing weapons, all of it (honestly) fascinating.” These days, she’s working on book seven of her Dogwood Springs Cozy Mystery Series. All of the book titles are alliterative and set in the mythical Ozarks town of Dogwood Springs.

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A new home for ‘Baseball 1971’

Thank you, Bulb culture Collective

In publication news, I’m thrilled that a flash fiction I wrote back in the ‘90s has found a new home! The story, “Baseball 1971,” was published this week in the on line literary magazine Bulb Culture Collective. The site specializes in publishing works that were published previously in journals that no longer exist. That is the case with this story, which originally appeared in Fan in 1998 (backstory here).

Many thanks to the folks at Bulb Culture Collective for selecting this for their Shine A Light series of writings.

Follow the journal on Twitter (I mean X) at @BulbCultCo.

Image via Bulb Culture Collective.