New Substack post ... En Taos: A Good Landing. Our adventure living in Taos, NM starts. That's a view from the land we bought to build our home there. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

New Substack post. New Series. En Taos will explore my experiences living in Taos, New Mexico. Here I share how we got there. Perhaps the Mountain called. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

New Substack post inspired by our recent camping trip to Cape Cod with visits to the National Seashore and P-Town. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

My review of #FindingTheSource by @joanlivingston.bsky.social is now live: andrewswritersblock.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...

Here are links to the reviews so far on the blog tour for Finding the Source, my latest Isabel Long Mystery. Thanks all. Miriam Drori miriamdrori.com/blog/ Tracey D Holland www.tdholland.com Donna Morette www.facebook.com/groups/donna... Heather Beveridge www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

New Substack: Sometimes you need help getting the word out about the book you wrote. I am calling on Reading Between the Lines and its bloggers for Finding the Source, no. 8 in my Isabel Long Mystery Series. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

Nw Substack Post — North Fairhaven Girl: Meu Padrinho. Recalling my godfather John Medeiros, the last of my family’s generation. That's me as a child holding a photo of him.

Taking Finding the Source for a ride next week with Reading Between the Lines. Read what the reviewers have to say about no. 8 in my Isabel Long Mystery Series.

Substack: As a girl in North Fairhaven, Our Lady of Angels Feast on Labor Day Weekend was an important part of my family’s life. It started with those grateful immigrants from the Azores who commissioned a life-sized statue of Mary men carry through the streets. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

New Substack: Fairgoers. August means country fairs, which I attended in Western Mass. and Taos NM. One even inspired an Isabel Long Mystery. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

New Substack Post: Reading Aloud. Reading aloud — my computer and me — what I wrote is a helpful process. On my third and final go-round for The Unforgiving Town. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

New Substack Post — North Fairhaven Girl: Keeping Score. Remembering Dad’s involvement in local sports and what we kids did during those softball games. Plus a bit of inspiration. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

xNew Substack Post: As a bargain hunter myself, I wanted to share this great deal — a Kindle boxset of the first three books in my Isabel Long Mystery Series for $5.99 or £3.92. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

New Post: 6 Ws with author Joseph Lewis, who talks about his writing life and his latest novel, Black Yéʼii (The Evil One). open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

Three mysteries in one ... My publisher Bloodhound Books has created a boxset of the first three books in my Isabel Long Mystery Series. That makes this author smile. Here's the link: geni.us/IsabelLongMy... #NewRelease #MustRead #SummerReads #Thriller

New Post: The Unforgiving Town. So happy to say the first draft is done is this dark mystery. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

New Substack post: PG 13: Writing about Sex. Yes, there’s a bit of sex in my mystery series because I write about people and what they do. Sex is a part of that. Still it’s a bit tricky. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

New Substack — Hilltown Postcard: Our family cools off at the Bend on a hot summer’s day. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

New post: Ode to Porchfest. I took on the challenge to write an ode about the event happening in my village and elsewhere. Hey, it even rhymes. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

New Substack: Here’s an interview with author Angela Wren. From the UK, she writes cozy crime mysteries set in France. Angela says she likes putting a puzzle in anything she writes. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

New Substack: Inspired by a recent experience, I write about strange encounters I have had, from humorous to uncomfortable. Then there are the ones I give the protagonist in my mystery series. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

Watched this person blow bubbles above the Deerfield River in Shelburne Falls MA.

New Substack: Growing up near the ocean I had seen creatures but not sharks. Then Jaws came along. Bar-dum, bar-dum, bar-dum, bar-dum open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

New Substack: A Hilltown Postcard about a woman’s generous and surprising gift to her small town. One of my favorite stories to break as a reporter. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

New Substack: A memory of my father, softball games, and his love of ice cream. We kids sang “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream” in the car’s back seat on our way to get a cone. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

Sunday is Father’s Day in which we celebrate those who have taken a fatherly role in our lives. I write about the fathers, good and bad, who are characters in my books. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

Just released .... I tell all about my life as a writer in this interview on CanvasRebel magazine. That's a photo Sarah Holbrook took of me outside the old jail in Shelburne Falls village. canvasrebel.com/meet-joan-li...

New Substack: In Finding the Source, Isabel Long’s eighth case, I give her a challenge as she tries to solve a 43-year-old murder of a book seller. So many suspects, but many of them dead. Good luck, Isabel. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

If you write mysteries that involve a murder, you need a victim. So, who’s that in Finding the Source, eighth in my Isabel Long Mystery Series? Abby McKenzie, an avid book collector and seller —and mother of the homeless man who asks Isabel to solve that case. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

New Substack — North Fairhaven Girl: Oom-Pa-Pa Sharing a memory of dancing the polka with my father. Three quick steps and a hop around the floor. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

New Substack: I love my characters too much, even the bad ones, to have them appear in only one book in my mystery series. A suspect can later be a rescuer or even hire Isabel Long to investigate a case. Or they are a steady source of intel. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

Read my review on The Ring, an anthology of ten historical fiction stories connected by one piece of jewelry that brings the wearer luck — good or bad. And royalties go to a great cause. www.joanlivingston.net/book-review/...

Read about the inspiration for the cover of Finding the Source, eighth book in my Isabel Long Mystery Series. It concerns a clue that helps Isabel solve her eighth case. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

Meet author Henry Corrigan, whose new release Somewhere Quiet, Full of Light is an original and interesting spin on the haunted house genre. www.joanlivingston.net/author-inter...

When I write my books, I depend on the “what ifs” that pop inside my brain. But my latest mystery, Finding the Source, was inspired by a real life encounter. Read about it here. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

A freebie for readers of my Isabel Long Mystery Series... and everyone else. Missing the Deadline free three days. Get yours, then get the next, Finding the Source, no. 8. (You will have to buy that one.) Here's the link: mybook.to/Missing_the_...

New Release: Finding the Source, no. 8 in my Isabel Long Mystery Series, is ready to read. Thank you if you do. Here's the link to make it easy for you: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8JLJ5CW

Surprise! Finding the Source, no. 8 in my Isabel Long Mystery Series, is now available to read. A little earlier than planned, but Isabel and I couldn’t wait to go onto the next case. Read about it here. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

In this Substack post, I celebrate the mothers in my books. If you've read them, you've met Maria, Willi, Verona, Edie and more. And Happy Mother’s Day to the moms out there and to my characters. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

My new book, The Swanson Shuffle, is set in 1974, a year where a lot happens for the residents of the halfway house where Bia Fernandes works plus the U.S. How about Watergate and the gas crisis? And the state closing its institutions? Yes, that’s in this book. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

New Post: A Writer’s Dedication. There’s the stick-to-itiveness of the process and then those we honor on a page inside a book. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

Helen Matthews, a UK psychological suspense author, gives a review of my recently released book, The Swanson Shuffle. Thank Helen! open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

Last night, I read a chapter from my latest book, The Swanson Shuffle, at open mic at my son’s Floodwater Brewing. An attentive crowd. By the way, Zack named a beer for me … Cyborg Joan. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

A heartfelt thanks to all who bought a copy of my new book The Swanson Shuffle on yesterday's release day. Here's the link to those have it on their to-do list. www.amazon.com/Swanson-Shuf...?

An exciting day for me: The Swanson Shuffle is officially released. Read how this book came to be. Now it's yours to read. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

Who’s Who in The Swanson Shuffle. I give you a peek at some of the residents who live in the psychiatric halfway house, the setting for my new book, which has an April 30 release. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

Bia Tells the Story: Meet the protagonist of The Swanson Shuffle due for an April 30 release. Bia has no experience but that doesn’t mean she won’t try when she’s hired as a live-in staff at a psychiatric halfway house. She tries to see the good in people. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

Yes, my latest novel has a April 30 release. Bia Fernandes leaves a dead-end job to work and live in a psychiatric halfway house, where she learns more than she expects from its ex-patients. In this post, I explain how I came up with the book’s title. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

Isabel Long Mystery Series News: Finding the Source, no. 8, has a May release. Amateur P.I. Isabel Long probes the murder of a book dealer after she is approached by a homeless man who was 12 when he found his mother’s body in their home. She up for the challenge. open.substack.com/pub/joanlivi...

In this new podcast with Denise Schwartz at Backyard Oasis, I am interviewed about news coverage and my career as a journalist. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...