Amanda Matetsky

Hi, thanks for stopping by this page. If you'd like to find out more about my writing or me, click on over to my personal website. Over there you can read the first chapter of my new cozy mystery, Lawn Order. You can also listen to "Fandango by Flashlight" or read "My Trouble," two of my stories originally published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

I spent twenty years in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Upper East Tennessee. If you've never been there you should go. I was the curator of the history museum in Jonesborugh, Tennessee’s oldest town, and later managed The Book Place, an independent bookstore; may it rest in peace. These days, my family and I live in Champaign, Illinois, where it's extremely flat and I push books on children at the public library.
 
Eight of my short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Hitchcock did reject one of my stories because, as the editor nicely put it, "if there's one thing we know about our readers, it's they don't want to read about dead dogs." That story went on to win the 2000 Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction, literary types apparently being less squeamish.
 
I'm currently at work on the first novel in a three book series for Penguin. The series is tentatively called The Haunted Yarnshop Mysteries. The first title is Last Wool and Testament. It'll put the woo-woo in wool.