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The Ticket Stays Open

Six weeks after launch. Thanks, what this blog has been, and why the ticket stays open.

Fixed to Death has been out for six weeks now. I am not going to give you numbers, here or anywhere, but I will say a plain thank you to everyone who read it.

This blog started in March as a way to build a town in public. Every Tuesday I settled one more fact about Gault Mills, the river and the closed mill and the shop and the cat in the front window, until there was enough of a place to put a murder in. Now the book is out in that town, and the place is still standing.

The next book is already underway, and that is all I will say about it for now.

The newsletter, The Shop's Bell, still goes out every week, and you can sign up for it at the site.

In Connie's shop a repair ticket stays open until the last of its fields can be answered. I am running the series on the same rule. This book is done, and the series it belongs to is not.

The Notebook keeps posting on Tuesdays, the same as it has since March. There is more town to build, and now there are readers in it while I work. The ticket on this series stays open.

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Delilah Faber

Writes fair-play cozy mysteries about sharp women, small towns, and physical clues that matter. Fixed to Death is out August 4, 2026.

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