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Blog postEnjoy the sort of restorative sleep that comes with fresh mountain air, quiet, and luxury bedding.At Wits' End, you'll sleep like a dream. No matter your preference, our pillow collection of natural fibers, feather and down, and down alternative pillows, are sure to give you a soft landing!
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Blog postManyBooks.net readers voted Bound, book 1 in the Doyle Witch trilogy, August's best paranormal book of the month! So thank you, ManyBooks!They write: "Bound by Kirsten Weiss is the first book in the Witches of Doyle series of cozy mysteries. This is no ordinary mystery, though, as it features a paranormal slant thanks to the magic-wielding Bonheim triplets. The trio lives in the small town of Doyle, California, where they are careful to keep their magic a secret from their neighbors. Unfort
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Blog postFate! Book six in the Witches of Doyle cozy mystery series, and companion to Close Encounters of the Curd Kind is coming in November!I’d originally written the Wits’ End series as a counterpoint to the Witches of Doyle cozy mystery books. The witches see the events in Doyle (aka Murphy’s, CA) from a magical perspective; Susan, like most Doyleites, doesn’t. But I decided to challenge myself and try to tell the same set of events from the two different points of view. Fate, book 6 in the Witches o
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Blog postWhen you're pleasantly exhausted after a day of hiking, swimming, or UFO spotting, you can tuck into slumber in our luxury sheets. Nothing can be cozier than the sublime sensation of our silky, all-natural sheets at Wits' End, the world's foremost UFO-themed B&B!
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Blog postWits' End welcomes you to a taste of California with our delicious breakfasts! Each of our recipes is carefully selected to surprise and delight.Some of our breakfast dishes are family traditions. Others, like our spiral-galaxy pancakes, are specialties of the house. And many of our recipes include locally-sourced ingredients from our little niche in the foothills of the California Sierras. But no matter the meal*, our breakfasts have guests returning time and again. *Yes, we always have vegan o
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Blog postSusan Witsend, owner of the best little UFO-themed B&B in the Sierras, is absolutely, positively, not going to get involved in another murder case. Not with her small-town sheriff threatening jail time if she interferes in one more investigation.So when her neighbor is murdered, Susan exerts all her willpower to stay out of the sheriff’s business. But her neighbor’s daughter, Clare, needs Susan’s help. Clare’s been experiencing lost time, a sure sign of alien abduction. Helping Clare is only
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Blog postWelcome to September! Autumn is almost upon us and that means pumpkin lattes and all things Halloween! Until then, here's this week's paranormal news update.1) Why the Ghost Hunters team is super selective about which tech equipment they use. (As a side note, the paranormal museum sells a wide array of tech for all your ghost hunting needs...).2) What do you do when your home is too haunted to sell? You rent it to ghost hunting enthusiasts via AirBnB. 3)The Witch's Tree at Blarney Castle has bee
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Blog post👽🛸👾ONE DAY!!! Book 3 in the Wits' End series, Close Encounters of the Curd Kind, launches tomorrow! Amazon | iBooks | B&N | Kobo | Google Play
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Blog postWherein Allyson Charles and I review the occult gothic classic, Zanoni! (By Edward Bulwer-Lytton, of "It was a dark and stormy night" fame.)
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Blog postAmidst all the usual craziness in the news, the paranormal crazy just keeps on coming. So here's my top five roundup of this week's paranormal news!1) Do not storm Area 51. Repeat after me: do NOT storm Area 51. But since no one listens to me (sigh), a second Nevada county has declared a state of emergency in the face of the upcoming "Storm Area 51" event, which aims to... release kidnapped aliens from the military's not-so-secret site? 2) Is the infamous home from The Conjuring still
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Blog postGet your EMF detectors ready. Close Encounters of the Curd Kind launches next week!Kindle | Nook | iBooks | Kobo | Google Play
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Blog postI always like to read a sample of a book before I buy. Is the tone something I'll enjoy? Am I going to keep turning the pages? You never know until you start reading.So, I'm providing a PDF sample of the first three chapters of Close Encounters of the Curd Kind (available September 5th). You can download the PDF sample .And here's what it's about:The truth is out there…Way out there.Susan Witsend, owner of the best little UFO-themed B&B in the Sierras, is absolutely, positively, not going to
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Blog postThe end of summer is approaching. Bad news for school kids. Good news for moms. Great news when you live in California's central valley where it is HOT. So let's all cool off with another dose of your weekly paranormal news!1) A group of moms start their own ghost hunting group. And they're awesome.2) Ghost boy caught on security camera? Hm... You be the judge.3) Fashion witch (yes, it's a thing now) gives tips on how to incorporate magic into your beauty routine.4) Certain grumpy pants writers
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Blog postYour journey begins here!The Raven(ous) Society welcomes all seekers with open hearts. Enter your email and our secretary will contact you with information on membership and benefits.
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Blog postMurphys: The picturesque Sierra location that inspired Doyle.Wits' End centers around the owner of a UFO-themed B&B in "Doyle," California. There actually is a Doyle, California -- a teeny town near the Nevada border. But that's not the Doyle of Wits' End.Doyle is based on Murphys, California, a Gold Rush-era town in the Sierra foothills, between Angels Camp and Bear Valley. I grew up in California and spent many summers at Bear Valley, making sure to stop along the way in Doyle fo
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Blog postKindle | iBooks | Nook | Kobo | Google PlayBook three in the Wits' End series is coming this September!The truth is out there… Way out there.Susan Witsend, owner of the best little UFO-themed B&B in the Sierras, is absolutely, positively, not going to get involved in another murder case. Not with her small-town sheriff threatening jail time if she interferes in one more investigation.So when her neighbor is murdered, Susan exerts all her willpower to stay out of the sheriff’s business. But h
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Blog postWelcome to your paranormal news for the week. I'm super excited about this week's batch of news, because item number one is simply... inspiring! At least, it's inspiring if you run a paranormal museum...1) The York Ghost Merchants opens today in the historically haunted city of York, and what does it sell? Ghosts, of course! Yes, you can buy your own, unique ghost to take home. (Now why didn't I think of that for the museum?)2) Archaeologists are still digging up interesting finds at Pompeii, an
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Blog postRaven(ous) Society founder Mildred Purdue was more than a seeker of universal truths, she was also a baker, making her an alchemist of the esoteric and practical variety.Want to learn more?The Raven(ous) Society welcomes all seekers with open hearts. Enter your email hereand our secretary will contact you with information on membership and benefits.
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Blog postAmazon | iBooks | Nook | Kobo| Google PlayBook three in the Wits' End series is coming this September!The truth is out there… Way out there.Susan Witsend, owner of the best little UFO-themed B&B in the Sierras, is absolutely, positively, not going to get involved in another murder case. Not with her small-town sheriff threatening jail time if she interferes in one more investigation.So when her neighbor is murdered, Susan exerts all her willpower to stay out of the sheriff’s business. But he
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Blog postRaven(ous) for a good story? Go to KirstenWeiss.com, enter your email address, and our society secretary will reach out with more details on membership. You too can be a member of the Raven(ous) Society!
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Blog postDeath vs. Desire (aka Alyson Chase and myself - as a mystery writer, I'm the "death" faction of the group), review the gothic novel that started it all, The Castle of Otranto! Just click the image below to watch the video.
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Blog postYour journey begins here.The Raven(ous) Society's doors are open to all who seek fellowship with an open heart. We encourage all who seek fellowship to knock at KirstenWeiss.com!
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Blog postWelcome to another week of the strange, oddball, and just plain paranormal! A lot of aliens and cryptozoology this week, so let's get started!1) The Loch Ness Monster, captured on sonar! (Maybe)2) And a Bigfoot howl captured in Kentucky?3) So, the whole, "let's storm Area 51 and set the aliens free" thing turned out to be a joke gone awry. (Much like the Rosecrucians, but with the possibility of death by US military). Here's how this joke went so badly wrong.4) And speaking of UFOs, ar
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Blog postEbook 1 in my Doyle Witch trilogy, Bound, is free for a limited time on all platforms!The Bonheim siblings enjoy a cozy existence in the mountains, keeping their magical abilities secret. But when a body is discovered in the eldest sister’s café, pragmatic middle child Karin must harness her waning powers — and her newfound sleuthing skills — to find the killer! 🔥Amazon🔥Kobo🔥B&N🔥iBooks“Bound with suspense, reality and a touch of magic keeping you spellbound.”
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Blog postParnassus-Bridge insurance Deanna Peters is a creative, energetic sole-owner/operator with a home-based business selling jam. So her month’s-long disappearance, along with the rest of the patrons of the Fox and Fennel pub, put a serious dent in her finances.Fortunately, Deanna had planned ahead, purchasing alien-abduction insurance.What is alien-abduction insurance?Alien abduction-insurance (AAI), also known as UFO insurance, covers you in the event of abduction by non-human life forms*, provide
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Blog postHappy Independence Day (belated), America! Here's this week's paranormal news.1) Paranormal investigator claims demonic hauntings are EXTREMELY rare. So... that's good news.2) Seen over Colorado and caught on a security camera, something plummeting from the sky and then suddenly banking left.Is it a UFO?3) In entertainment news, The Good Witch was renewed for a sixth season on Hallmark Channel.4) Gatlinburg will host the first ever Bigfoot conference in the Smoky Mountains!It all happens July 27
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Blog postMaybe Susan from Wits' End should start taking over this blog, because it sure has been filling up with UFO news...1) Strange objects seen over Kansas City, and no one seems to have any answers...2) And Joe Rogan interviews Bob Lazaar, who is crediting with bringing Area 51 to the attention of UFO enthusiasts. And Bob's story is... out of this world.3) Thinking of witchcraft as a career? It's not all spell casting and Tarot reading. There's also Instagram...4) UFO museum loses investor-- Hold up
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Blog postWelcome to another week of paranormal news from the San Benedetto Paranormal Museum! We've got ghosts, Bigfoot, UFOs and entertainment news!1) Woman faints in a paranormal museum (not mine) after being touched by an orb. Is this video evidence of the paranormal?As a side note, at the San Benedetto museum, we only run our video cameras at night, after the museum has closed.2) Have you heard the mournful call of Bigfoot? No? (Me neither, alas). Then maybe you should go to Indiana, where people hav
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Blog postI know, I've been a little off schedule with my usual paranormal news. But things have been crazy at the San Benedetto Paranormal Museum. A team of ghost hunters flooded the bathroom in the tearoom next door, and the orbs have gone crazy. (The owner of the tearoom hasn't been too happy about it either).Anyway, my top five paranormal news picks are here!1) Too bizaare (and weirdly funny) not to share. A woman's outdoor security camera catches... a drunken alien? Dobby the house elf?You tell me.2)
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Blog postThe third edition of At Wits' End and the second edition of Planet of the Grapesare now available on all fine e-retailers. If you've already bought the ebook on Amazon, Barnes & Noble or iBooks, you can get the updated version for free. For instructions, check out this blog post by thebookdesigner.com (scroll down to the header "Dealing With Retailers.")[I thought this would happen automatically with Amazon, but it turns out I needed to get approval for readers to get the updated v
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Blog postRomance writer Allyson Charles and I are starting a new YouTube channel, Death vs. Desire! We'll be doing Tarot readings, reviewing classic Gothic novels, and generally trying to do other fun, readerly stuff. Check out our first video to get a taste of Death vs. Desire!
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Blog postSteeped in Murder Series: A Tea and Tarot Cozy Mystery Author: Kirsten Weiss Genre: Cozy MysteryAmazon- iBooks- B&N - Kobo- Google PlayTea, tarot, and trouble.Abigail Beanblossom’s dream of owning a tea room in her California beach town is about to come true. She’s got the lease, the start-up funds, and the recipes. But Abigail's out of a tearoom and into hot water when the realtor turns out to be a conman… and then turns up dead.But not even death puts an end to the conman’s mischief. He re
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Blog postI've just transitioned my email list, which gave away a copy of The Alchemical Detective, to The Raven(ous) Society, which gives away a copy of The Melancholy Detective and Fortune Favors the Grave. If for some reason you got caught in the middle, expecting to get Alchemical and getting something else, email me through the contact form, and I'll shoot you a copy of The Alchemical Detective.- Kirsten
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Blog postI'm going through a rebrand! This probably sounds a lot more exciting for me than it does for you. But, if you're a newsletter subscriber, there are two big changes on the way.The first is I will no longer be giving away a free copy of The Alchemical Detective, book 1 in the Riga Hayworth paranormal mysteries/urban fantasy novels. Instead, I will be giving away The Melancholy Detective, a Riga Hayworth novellete exclusive to members of The Ravenous Society.AND, I'll also give away Fortune Favors
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Blog postDonovan— I think the dancer looks a little like me. Anyway. We tracked his EMF disturbance to a Soviet-style apartment complex and a room with flaking, high school-green paint and wall-to-wall computers. I stepped inside. Electric agony jolted me. Another trap. I awoke wrapped in computer cables, plugged into the equipment, my brain feeling like it had gone through the spin cycle. But he’d made a mistake. There is a cyberspace spirit. And that spirit didn’t like the techno-mage’s plan for mergin
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Blog postDonovan— Credit cards, telephones, security cameras all work against us. All consciousness may reside in the astral plane, but the mage’s cyber eye is certainly conscious of us. Now I’m running on cash and hackneyed disguises. A blond wig. Big glasses. Floppy hats. You’d enjoy my new look. If there’s a cyberspace spirit, it’s not my friend. I’m still avoiding planes. Fortunately, metaphysical detectives have other means of travel, and I had a plan. I couldn’t beat the mage’s tech. But I could re
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Blog postDonovan— Philosophers believe our souls cross the astral plane on the way to birth and after death. Today’s journey, however, led us to more prosaic places – a high-tech facility in the desert. I followed his magic’s burnt-plastic scent through blinding white corridors. My cloaking spell got us past security guards and scientists, until we reached a door with an optical sensor lock. My unlock spell failed. But it did melt the knob. Small victories. We entered an empty, white-tiled room. The sten
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Blog postDonovan— This morning my cell phone nearly took my head off, so the gargoyle post continues. The technomancers were trying to merge cyberspace and the astral plane. The one who escaped is still trying, and if he succeeds... It would be bad. Think of Stonehenge paved over with a parking lot, if Stonehenge were the collective human psyche and the parking lot were cyberspace. And cyberspace… That world brings out our worst, its anonymity breeding outrage and contempt. What a contrast to the slow sw
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Blog postDonovan— I’m okay. But e-communications aren’t secure. Gargoyle mail is safer. It seemed a run-of-the-mill pagan ritual. An abandoned church. Moonlight streaming through dusty stained glass. But it had a Silicon Valley twist. Candle apps for candles. Networked PCs marked the directions. Techno-nerds encircled a silver pentagram painted on the rough, wooden floor. And they knew I was coming. Unfortunately, I didn’t know. I was exposed, vulnerable, ignorant. Pigeons fluttered in the rafters, and t
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Blog postAn empty table. At Riga Hayworth's house.My homework in a recent class on innovative writing was to write a story on the back of five postcards. The postcards were supposed to add tension to the story. But I got hung up making sure the postcards were in the public domain and out of copyright, so I failed at the "added tension" bit. And I don't think it's terribly innovative either. However, I liked my little Riga Hayworth story and wanted to share. Starting tomorrow, the table will beg
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Blog postYes, I'm still here!At the beginning of March, I sold my house in California and moved to Colorado. I spent the last few weeks house hunting, and I'm now in the process of closing on a mountain home. (Eeeep!). I've managed to keep writing and editing, but things like blogging fell off the radar. I should be able to get back to a more regular schedule once I'm moved in to my new place.So what's been happening? I've sent my 5th Pie Town manuscript to my editor at Kensington. I suggested Pumpkin Di
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Blog postWhew! With all the chocolate and murder, I've had to take a hiatus from posting. But I'm back this week with my top five in paranormal news.1) First, in honor of St. Paddy's, there's a hidden leprechaun house at Disneyland in Anaheim! It looks more like a tree than a house, but...2) An interesting article from the BBC on the witch trials in Scotland.3) And speaking of witches... Here's an article on a new photography collection of modern American witches.4) Fact or faked? This ghost hunter claim
Books By Kirsten Weiss
Close Encounters of the Curd Kind: A Doyle Cozy Mystery (A Wits' End Cozy Mystery Book 3)
Sep 5, 2019
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Steeped in Murder: A Tea and Tarot Cozy Mystery
May 21, 2019
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Pies before Guys (A Pie Town Mystery Book 4)
Mar 1, 2020
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Pie Hard (A Pie Town Mystery Book 3)
Mar 1, 2019
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