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In Other Words

Ellen is now blogging on Amazon Connect. Check out her latest entry here.


Parchment Perfumes

Parchment Perfumes is an on-line shop selling unique hand-blended perfume oils, mostly inspired by the written word. Owner Annie Taylor (daughter of Creatures 'n Crooks owner Lelia Taylor) has created a number of unique scents including "Vintage," inspired by Ellen's Virginia wine country series. Containing essences of Merlot, dogwood blossom, bluegrass, fir, balsam, cedarwood, Macintosh apple and wild mountain honey "Vintage" is sold as a limited edition.


Interviews & Articles

  • Ellen talks about The Bordeaux Betrayal with Lari Robling of A CHEF'S TABLE heard on WHYY, Philadelphia's NPR radio station, on October 25, 2008. You can listen to her interview (which begins at 32:30) here.


  • Check out VABooks!, a monthly column sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities' Center for the Book which features reading recommendations by Virginia authors on books they've loved or that have been somehow life-changing. Read Ellen's essay on Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird here, and check out some of the other great selections here.


  • Writing The Wine Country Mysteries: The History Behind The Mystery


  • Eye on Books with Bill Thompson -- listen to Ellen’s interview regarding The Chardonnay Charade .


  • Listen to Ellen’s interview with Beth Foxwell, host of the weekly radio show "It’s A Mystery" on WEBR in Fairfax, Virginia.

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  • Listen to Ellen’s interview on BookCast, sponsored by the Fairfax County Virginia Public Library.


  • Read Ellen's article from the January 2007 edition of Mystery Writers of America's newsletter The Third Degree.


  • Mystery Readers Journal. From the Academic Mysteries 101 Fall 2006 issue. Thomas Jefferson's Passions -- Wine & the University of Virginia (PDF)


  • Eye on Books with Bill Thompson -- listen to Ellen’s interview on The Bookcast. (Audio courtesy of www.thebookcast.com) Listen to the MP3 by clicking on the link, or by right clicking to save the file to your computer and then opening it through your media player.


  • Interested in more background information about The Merlot Murders? Read an interview with Ellen in the August 2006 issue of Virginia Living magazine here. (PDF)

last updated: 11/22/08