Joslyn Ginn
@joslynginn.com
Amateur-sleuth mysteries for adults & rhyming picture books for kids. Debut novel A Stranger's Last Conversation is with beta readers now, Book Two already underway right behind it. Free newsletter with the real process, at joslynginn.com/newsletter.
Counting Down to a Debut There’s a strange kind of quiet that settles in during the final weeks before a debut novel comes out. Writing a debut is like being handed a puzzle with half the pieces missing and being told, confidently, that you’ll find the rest along the way. And somehow, you do.
September 15, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Counting Down to a Debut There’s a strange kind of quiet that settles in during the final weeks before a debut novel comes out. Writing a debut is like being handed a puzzle with half the pieces missing and being told, confidently, that you’ll find the rest along the way. And somehow, you do.
A Stranger's Last Conversation, out this fall.
September 10, 2026 at 9:36 PM
A Stranger's Last Conversation, out this fall.
September 9, 2026 at 7:03 PM
What actually makes a red herring work isn't misdirection, it's fair misdirection. The reader should be able to catch it and still get fooled.
#cozymystery #amwriting #writingcommunity
#cozymystery #amwriting #writingcommunity
September 9, 2026 at 7:01 PM
What actually makes a red herring work isn't misdirection, it's fair misdirection. The reader should be able to catch it and still get fooled.
#cozymystery #amwriting #writingcommunity
#cozymystery #amwriting #writingcommunity
My WOW Wednesday Moment #authorlife · #debutauthor
September 2, 2026 at 3:30 PM
My WOW Wednesday Moment #authorlife · #debutauthor
Build your own world to match your essence. #amwriting · #writingcommunity
August 28, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Build your own world to match your essence. #amwriting · #writingcommunity
A Stranger's Last Conversation, available this fall.
August 27, 2026 at 1:54 PM
A Stranger's Last Conversation, available this fall.
Realised I forgot to post the last part. That's what happens when my own plot twist takes me away. 😂 A few months later, a stranger's phone call handed me an entire plot. A Stranger's Last Conversation, my debut mystery, with beta readers now. Glad you're here. (3/3)
August 24, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Realised I forgot to post the last part. That's what happens when my own plot twist takes me away. 😂 A few months later, a stranger's phone call handed me an entire plot. A Stranger's Last Conversation, my debut mystery, with beta readers now. Glad you're here. (3/3)
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Last year decades of burnout finally caught up with me, so I dug up an old shelved idea and finished it in a week: a rhyming picture book called An Aardvark in the Attic. That one week cracked open a part of my brain I thought I'd shelved for good back in that classroom
Last year decades of burnout finally caught up with me, so I dug up an old shelved idea and finished it in a week: a rhyming picture book called An Aardvark in the Attic. That one week cracked open a part of my brain I thought I'd shelved for good back in that classroom
August 20, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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Last year decades of burnout finally caught up with me, so I dug up an old shelved idea and finished it in a week: a rhyming picture book called An Aardvark in the Attic. That one week cracked open a part of my brain I thought I'd shelved for good back in that classroom
Last year decades of burnout finally caught up with me, so I dug up an old shelved idea and finished it in a week: a rhyming picture book called An Aardvark in the Attic. That one week cracked open a part of my brain I thought I'd shelved for good back in that classroom
How in the hell did I get here?
I wrote my first murder mystery at 13, for an English class — failed it over grammar, not story, and didn't talk about writing again for almost thirty years. One big fat F at 13 can quiet a person for a long, long time — turns out. (1/3)
I wrote my first murder mystery at 13, for an English class — failed it over grammar, not story, and didn't talk about writing again for almost thirty years. One big fat F at 13 can quiet a person for a long, long time — turns out. (1/3)
August 19, 2026 at 7:30 PM
How in the hell did I get here?
I wrote my first murder mystery at 13, for an English class — failed it over grammar, not story, and didn't talk about writing again for almost thirty years. One big fat F at 13 can quiet a person for a long, long time — turns out. (1/3)
I wrote my first murder mystery at 13, for an English class — failed it over grammar, not story, and didn't talk about writing again for almost thirty years. One big fat F at 13 can quiet a person for a long, long time — turns out. (1/3)