Publications

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Nonfiction 

How to Self-Edit Your Submissions

Boning up on Bone Broth

Is Hormone Therapy Right for You?

The Skinny on Platelet-Rich Plasma

Three Shades of Menopause

Online Dating: Ways to Help Keep It Safe

Age 66, Looking to Hook Up

Celebrating Senior Romance

Fiction Shorts and Flashes

Oyster River Pages:

Mama

Short Fiction Break:

Honey, I’m Home

Every Writer's Resource:

The Delivery 

Night Talk

Heart of the Matter

Honorable Mentions 

The Birthmark (Spring 2021 and

Fall 2022 flash fiction contests)

Guest blogger: "How I Started Writing Cozy Mini Mysteries for Woman's World (and Published a Book)"

Woman's World holiday edition reprints:

Mother’s Day Caper

As Luck Would Have Itoliday 

Halloween Heist

Deadly Misstep (reprinted as "The Most Deadly Misstep")

Slow Burn (reprinted as "A Slow and Steady Burn")

A Sly Saboteur (reprinted as "A Slick Saboteur")

Bittersweet Treat 

Case of the Vandalized Van

The Clearly Departed

Super Bowl Foul

Memorial Day Burnout

Candy-Coated Halloween

Snow Day Murder

Books:

Five-Minute Cozy Mini Mysteries (with Solutions), 2020 & 2023

Editing, Copyediting, Proofreading Projects:

Suburban Woman magazine

Chicago magazine

Contemporary Books (textbooks)

Ovation Press (proofreading music scores)

Open Court (textbooks) 

American Hospital Association Journal

JCAHO

Activities & Interests:

Former board member and publicity/media liaison  of

501(c)3 social justice organization

Conversational French 

Former voice talent; listen to demo here: 

https://www.voices.com/profile/loretta_vspot#skill=voice-over