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Welcome to Tea & Strumpets

Reader Gals and Writer Divas Passing Notes and Wicked Reads Across the WWW

We're friends and fellow authors with likes and dislikes as different as north from south, city from country, and sweet from spicy. We love sharing those interests and passions with each other, and we're opening up the conversation, to you!

So please, get comfortable, pour yourself a cup of tea or coffee, wine or whiskey, and join us as we dish about favorite fashions and recipes, the oldest myths and the newest technologies, Southern comforts, secret passions, hot books and movies, and more!

Alexa Day ~ Below the Fold

Who couldn't use just a little extra heat in their day-to-day lives? Alexa Day's got some spicy food for thought in her column, Below the Fold, on the first Wednesday of the month.

Elvy Howard ~ Cooking with Gas

The phrase, Now You’re Cooking with Gas, began in the 1800s when gas stoves became commercially available and people began switching from wood stoves. It morphed into American slang and meant you did something great.  Of course this is the 21st century, not the 1800s, so the term can also mean to slow down, go back to older, simpler times, at least in our approach to things.  I’m a believer in good food, shared with people you care for, being a great antidote to just about anything going wrong everywhere else.

Tina Glasneck ~ Murderer's Market

Tina Glasneck, author of Thou Shall Not, is twisted, tangled, and wears it with a smile. With a knack for gritty scenes, real dialogue and murder, the question isn’t if she’s sane, but how sane is she? Tina blogs on the second and fourth Fridays of the month in Murderer’s Market.

Denise Golinowski ~ Myth Perceptions

Myth Perceptions – Writing fantasy is more than rehashing the old familiar fairy tales. Join Denise Golinowski on the third Wednesdays while she digs deeper into the familiar and explores the unfamiliar in all things fantasy.

Tracey Livesay ~ Fictionistas

Join me on a journey through the ever-changing landscape of Pop Culture. From Breaking Dawn to Breaking Bad, Rachel Roy to Rachel Gibson, if it's trending, I'm blogging.

Nara Malone ~ Next Dimension Fiction

Innerspace is the true final frontier. Novels are one way we can share inner space with each other. Virtual worlds and video games are another. Walking through a world sketched in another's imagination, interacting with their dream, is magical.

As a writer I try to take fiction, video games, and romance in particular, to places they've never been.  In my column (second Monday of every month) I'll be talking about the convergence of fiction with new realities and new ways of telling stories.

Leah St. James ~ OH in the Newsroom

In my other life (meaning my non-fiction-writing existence), I work in a newsroom for a daily newspaper. While I'm thrilled to write a weekly column about our local writing community, my main job is administrative. Basically, I support the editor and staff in their administrative needs. Aside from that, I answer the newsroom "tip" line, transcribe our reader "feedback" phone line and respond to walk-in visitors. In the course of the day, I hear a LOT of odd news, and I'll be sharing some of the more interesting tidbits with you the 4th Friday of every month in "Overheard in the Newsroom." I hope you enjoy!