Sara Hoskinson Frommer

Welcome to my web site, whether you're a mystery lover, a music lover, a quilter, a treehugger, care about someone with Alzheimer's, or just like getting to know authors.  I write mystery novels, but I've also published a few short stories. Also some little hi-lo (high interest-low level) books for adults learning how to read in literacy programs.

Look around and let me know if there's something you wish I'd included or something that doesn't work right. I'd love to hear from you.

The next Joan Spencer Mystery, Her Brother's Keeper, will be coming out in 2013 from Perseverance Press http://www.danielpublishing.com/perseverance . Let's hope we all live that long!  Meantime, I'm blogging occasionally with the other Perseverance authors.  Take a look at http://getitwriteblog.wordpress.com/
Bio

How I plot a mystery

Literary agent


Other Joan Spencer mystery novels

Murder in C Major, St. Martin's Press, 1986; Worldwide, 1988.
Now a trade paperback from Poisoned Pen Press.
ISBN: 1-890208-31-0. $14.95
Poisoned Pen Press Missing Mystery #17 April, 2000
Excerpt        Reviews

Buried in Quilts, St. Martin's Press, 1994; Worldwide, 1996;
Now a POD trade paperback from The Authors Guild Backinprint.com, 2000.
ISBN 0-595-14306-7
$15.95 US/$25.95 Canada
Excerpt       Reviews







The following books are out of print, but you can get copies through Howard's Bookstore. Place an order by phone at (812) 336-7662 or by email at Howards116@sbcglobal.net. They will call me, and I'll go over and sign first edition copies to anyone you wish.


 Murder & Sullivan, St. Martin's Press, 1997; Worldwide, 1998.
Reader's Choice Award for Best Traditional (Amateur Sleuth) Mystery.  
Excerpt      Reviews


The Vanishing Violinist, St. Martin's Minotaur, 1999; Worldwide, 2000.
Excerpt      Reviews


Witness in Bishop Hill, St. Martin's Minotaur, 2002; Worldwide, 2004.  
Excerpt       Reviews    Here's the real Bishop Hill.


Death Climbs a Tree, St. Martin's Minotaur, 2005; Worldwide, 2008  
Reviews










Adult New Reader books

As my first contribution to literacy (before I started tutoring an adult learner in 1999), I wrote sixteen little books for adults who read at the first- and second-grade level. Very short and easy to read, these illustrated books appeal to the interests of adults, not children. Some of them are mysteries, including my first quilting mystery, Dear Mary Ellen. In 1999 I read about how Dear Mary Ellen was used in an ESOL GED class of Latino students learning to read mysteries. I was delighted to find my little story used between Langston Hughes and Guy de Maupassant, and getting raves from the students. In 1990 and 1991 they were published as the Kaleidoscope Collection of Stories by New Readers Press, the publishing division of Laubach Literacy International, and are still used in many literacy programs.


Short stories
"Taken Care Of," Blue Murder Magazine, 1998
"Cold Fish," "twist," TheCase.com, 1997.
"One Man's Meat," Red Herring Mystery Magazine, 1995.

Recipes
"Grandma Zimmerman's Corn Bread," Recipe of the Month (October 2002) on maggody.com .
"Fred Lundquist's Sourdough Oatmeal Bread" in A Taste of Murder, Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers, edited by Joe Grossman and Robert Weibezahl, Dell, 1999.

Return to top of page
Home page URL: http://www.sff.net/people/SaraHoskinsonFrommer
Copyright © 1999 Sara Hoskinson Frommer
Designed September 1999; most recent update November 07, 2011
 
1.    SFF Net Main page
2.    See Other People Pages
3.    Send email to Sara Hoskinson Frommer
You are visitor