4 days until summer!
Josi began her first novel in 1998. Her novel, Sheep’s Clothing won the Whitney Award 2007 for Mystery/Suspense and she was the Best In State winner for fiction in 2012. Book eleven in the Sadie Hoffmiller Culinary Mystery series, Fortune Cookie, was released in spring 2014 with the final book in that series, Wedding Cake, to be released in Fall 2014 along with a cook book containing all the recipes featured in the series. She and her husband, Lee, are the parents of four children ages 20 to 12 and work together as Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) with the Guardian ad Litem’s office of Northern Utah.
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LDSWBR: What book or movie reminds you of summer?
JOSI: I didn’t read Harry Potter until book five came out, and then I read them in a week. It happened to be summer and I found it ironic that I was reading about his school year while my kids were out of school. I did the same thing with the Twilight series a few years later, then Hunger games. Apparently, summer is for series in my world.
LDSWBR: Do you hike during the summer? If so, where is your favorite place to hike?
JOSI: We have fabulous hiking trails here in Willard, we can walk out the back door and be in the mountains in about five minutes. Just this last year an elderly man in our town “built” a fabulous trail that weaves through trees for about 3/4 of a mile. I didn’t know anyone could “build” a hiking trail, but he’s done it and it’s amazing.
LDSWBR: What is the best book you’ve read so far this year?
JOSI: I don’t know that my favorite book has ever been non-fiction, but this year it is. I’ve been listening to “Daring Greatly” by Brenne Brown. I feel like some of it is over my head–I have a difficult time explaining the book–but I find myself “seeing” the concepts she’s talking about in my day to day life. It’s got me evaluating the way I interact with people and what my motives are. Fascinating perspectives that seem to be “following” me :-)
LDSWBR: I love Brene Brown! Thanks, Josi!
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DESERET BOOK | SEAGULL BOOK | BARNES & NOBLE | AMAZON | GOODREADS
Sadie Hoffmiller has always liked things to be just so. A place for everything and everything in its place. Order over chaos. And of all things Sadie should be able to control, her own wedding is at the top of the list. With the big day just three weeks away, Sadie is busily adding the perfect final touches to her wedding plans. But the arrival of a mysterious letter that bears a San Francisco postmark and no return address could change everything. The only person Sadie knows in San Francisco is her older sister, Wendy, whom she hasn’t seen or heard from since their mother’s funeral nearly fifteen years ago. Sadie has faced off with murderers and crooks in recent years, yet the potential of her sister reentering her life is both overwhelming and frightening. But, as Sadie soon discovers, the letter is just the beginning. Wendy’s world turns out to be a place of unanswered questions, twisted truths, and more than one motive for murder.
Do you read series as each book is published or wait until all the books are out and binge read them all at once?
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- Unraveled by Julie Daines (signed paperback)
- Any book by A.L. Sowards (choice of paperback or Kindle version)
- An autographed copy of any one Sarah M. Eden book of the winner’s choice
- Chances Are by Traci Hunter Abramson (signed/personalized paperback)
- Choice of The Inventor’s Secret (hardback or paperback) or The Avatar Battle (hardback or audio CD) by Chad Morris (signed copy)
- Missing Lily by Annette K. Larsen (ebook in .mobi or epub)
- Glimmering Light by Margot Hovley (personalized paperback or Kindle)
- Before the Clock Strikes Thirty by Aubrey Mace (personalized paperback)
- Tulips and Treason by Tristi Pinkston (personalized paperback)
- Luminescence by Braden Bell
- Falling For You by Krista Lynne Jensen (signed paperback)
- Ilana’s Wish by Annette Lyon (paperback copy, personalized if desired)
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