by Judy Penz Sheluk | Feb 28, 2019 | Inspiration, My Publishing Journey
Readers of The Hanged Man’s Noose will recognize the charismatic Johnny Porter as the owner of It’s a Colorful Life paint store, and the Chairman of the Main Street Merchants’ Association in Lount’s Landing. Johnny has movie star good looks,...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Feb 14, 2019 | Inspiration, My Publishing Journey
True confession: I fell madly, deeply in love for the first time when I was fifteen. To say things in the Penz household were somewhat unstable might be putting a gloss on it—my father had died the year before, my mother was coping badly, and I didn’t have any...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Jan 17, 2019 | Inspiration, My Publishing Journey
I was a teenager, about sixteen, when I got my first part-time job at a grocery store. It was called Sunnybrook Food Market and it was located at Midland and Lawrence in Scarborough, Ontario, about a mile and a half walk from my house, and a ten minute walk from...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Jan 4, 2019 | Inspiration, My Publishing Journey
Of all my characters, shortbread cookie loving Glass Dolphin antiques shop owner Arabella is probably my favorite. Feisty and flawed, she’s a loyal friend who still loves her ex-husband, Levon Larroquette, even if she refuses to admit it. But what I really like...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Dec 13, 2018 | Inspiration, My Publishing Journey
We first meet Emily Garland in The Hanged Man’s Noose, the first book in my Glass Dolphin Mystery series, and she returns in book 2, A Hole in One. In both books, Emily shares the stage with Arabella Carpenter, although in Noose, she’s the lead, and in...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Dec 6, 2018 | Inspiration, My Publishing Journey
In The Hanged Man’s Noose, the first book in my Glass Dolphin Mystery series, the basic premise is: greedy developer comes to the small town of Lount’s Landing with plans to build a mega-box store on the town’s historic Main Street, thereby...
