How to Outline a Cozy Mystery: Workbook Paperback – 28 Jun. 2016

If you're interested in writing a Cozy mystery, this book goes through it step by step. If you are a plotter when it comes to writing, it's very helpful.

Good if you need to outline a mystery, but this is a low content book with lots of space for you to write in the book

This book does what it says on the cover. It has been very helpful for my planning of my first cozy novel. A systematic approach with many useful hints.

Not much to this book. I expected some useful insights into exactly how to plot a cozy and I don't feel that this book delivered on the promise of the title.There were questions that the reader is meant to answer to build their cozy plot I guess but questions like 'What are the clues that point to the identity of the killer' were not particularly useful without some idea of how to actually build a cozy plot. There were some useful bits of information but for the most part this workbook does not help the new author work out what should be in a cozy plot or show them how to actually build one.Plus inside the workbook it says that the workbook is for people who are taking the author's course on writing cozies and there were references to how you'd find out more information on particular topics if you took the course which is not playing fair with the reader who buys this book thinking it's a stand alone. It felt like key information was missing anyway from this book and it rankled to be told that maybe that extra information might be yours if you paid out extra for a whole course.I wanted a how-to with actual worked examples on building a cozy plot and this book just didn't deliver that.