#WriterWednesday Interview with Liz Boeger
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I’d like to welcome the fabulous Liz Boeger to the blog for #WriterWednesday.
A few of your favorite fall traditions: Wearing long sleeves for a day or two when a Florida cold front swings through. We don’t put on the closed-toed shoes until winter.
Something autumn-related that you’ll never do again: Make sand angels on the beach. Not because its not fun, but the shells can be a little sharp.
Favorite fall treat: Humongous chocolate and peanut covered caramel apples-no sharing.
A fall treat that makes you gag: Circus Peanuts candy—those orange marshmallow things.
Favorite autumn beverage: Mulled wine by the fake fire on the big screen television.
A drink that gives you a sour face: Pour quality orange juice with pits.
Favorite fall smell: Cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and all related baking spices
Something that makes you hold your nose: That sweaty odor from wearing a plastic face mask on Halloween when you were a kid.
A tradition you share with others: I always bring my fall crafts to show with my students and to decorate the classroom. They love the tabletop quilts (Halloween and Thanksgiving), fabric pumpkins and decorated basket. I used them this year in science to teach the concept of “transformation" when we studied energy.
A tradition that can be retired: Cooking the BIG Thanksgiving dinner. Too much work and too many calories. We can still get together and enjoy family and friends without the sweat and mound of dirty dishes.
Best thing you ever cooked/baked in autumn: I hacked store bought sugar cookies into Ginger Snaps by adding fall spices and minced up crystallized ginger. Yum! They are a quick stand in for my sister’s famous Ginger Snap cookies, which is a rare treat.
Your worst kitchen disaster: Probably the chocolate chip cookies with too many chips that turned into brick-like discs.
Favorite place you spent a fall day: Outside with clear blue skies a slight breeze and coolish 60-70 degrees at a pumpkin patch and farm when my sone was a toddler.
The worst place to spend a fall day: Stuck inside grading papers, which I really need to do today.
Your best Halloween costume: An octopus I made for a young friend. She was the star of her school show.
A Halloween costume that wasn’t quite what you imagined: The Star Wars inspired alien get up I wore to my high school job at a local department store. I looked more like a space janitor with a unibrow.
Favorite pumpkin spice item: Hands down--old school Pumpkin Pie
Something that should never be pumpkin-spiced flavored: Key Lime Pie
Elementary principal Ana Callahan knows a thing or two about flipping failing schools, but she’s discovered the learning curve on solving murders is steep.
Now in the second year of her school rescue, in Moccasin Cove on Florida’s Gulf coast, Ana is on the verge of winning a pivotal grant award. But her grand plan hits a snag after a teacher is murdered and the crime is pinned on a runaway teenager Ana mentored. The story goes viral. Ana’s campus is besieged by the media, angry parents, and complex questions about the dead teacher’s past. Worse, the myopic rookie detective assigned to the case has her sights set on all the wrong suspects.
While grieving the teacher’s death, Ana starts her own investigation, but her discovery of a body on the beach pins a bullseye on Ana’s back. In her quest to solve two murders, locate the missing teen, and salvage the grant win, Ana unwittingly unleashes a riptide of childhood secrets that force her to learn a hard lesson...
It takes a village to raise a child, but it may also take your life.
2021 Finalist: Daphne Du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense
2015 Finalist: Royal Palm Literary Award, Florida Writers Association
About Liz:
Tampa native, Liz Boeger, writes the award-winning Moccasin Cove Mystery Series about an elementary school principal who has a lot to learn about murder. If you like your traditional mysteries with a cozy edge, a hint of Southern snark, a beachy vibe, and always a happy ending, this series is for you. Don’t worry, she promises the suspicious search history on her laptop, the crime scene tape on her bookshelf, and her real-life run-in with the US Secret Service all have perfectly reasonable explanations.
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