Scene of the Blog-- Kerrie of Mysteries in Paradise

This week it's time to take a trip to Australia to visit Kerrie of Mysteries in Paradise. I've been aware of Kerrie for quite a while now. We're both members of 4 Mystery Addicts on Yahoo, so it's easy to tell that we share a love of crime fiction. When I discovered that she had a blog, I headed right on over to check it out. It's a mystery lover's dream! (And I have to admit that when I saw that she had a weekly poll on her blog, I decided to give it a try on my own.) Kerrie is always pointing me to new books and authors to try, and she's quick to respond to blog comments and emails. What bookaholic could ask for more?

What does her blogging space look like? Let's take a look! (Click on the photo if you'd like to see it full size.)



Here's what Kerrie has to say about blogging and her blogging space:

Since I took up blogging about crime fiction at the beginning of last
year it has almost become a compulsion. Just as I can't go to sleep
at night without reading, and I almost never read anything but crime
fiction, so a day when I haven't blogged feels incomplete. My family
know where they can usually find me now - round the corner in the
lounge room at the computer. Blogging is one of my daily pleasures,
and for me blogging is the beginning of a conversation.



My blog has changed quite a lot since I started. I've added a number
of widgets, fiddled with the layout, joined some weekly events like
Friday's Forgotten Books, Weekly Geeks, and Sunday Salon, and I try
to respond to every comment that visitors leave. I try to run a
weekly poll for visitors to participate in, and recently started what
I hope will be a regular book give-away competition. I have created
an Agatha Christie Reading Challenge, and host an Agatha Christie
Blog Carnival towards the end of each month, encouraging people to
contribute their blog postings about their Agatha Christie reading. I
am about to host an edition of the Book Review Blog Carnival, and
twice hosted the now defunct Carnival of Criminal Minds. I also
belong to the Crime and Mystery Fiction room on Friend Feed.
I recently created a customised Google Search, found at the top of my
blog page, that searches about 120 crime fiction blog sites.



Australian crime fiction is one of my passions, not surprising as I
live Down Under. I cut my teeth on a diet of Agatha Christie and a
number of other British writers, but, while my tastes have definitely
narrowed to crime fiction, they have expanded to included the breadth
of the genre. I review books for Random House Australia but just
recently have been contacted by quite a number of authors and writers
about taking extra books. All my book reviews are listed at Smik's Reviews.



Thanks for the feature on your blog Cathy. Yours is one of those that
I follow on my Crime Fiction Journeys page.

Thanks for those kind words, Kerrie. I don't know about any of the rest of you, but I like seeing where she's kicked her shoes off under her desk so she can get comfortable for blogging. She's got a window close by where she can look out whenever she wants, and look at that comfy leather sofa! I can see myself curled up on that with a book. (A mystery, of course!) Thanks so much for letting us into your home to see your blogging space, Kerrie. You've satisfied our Inner Peeping Toms for yet another week!

Whose blogging space will be featured next week? Swapna Krishna of S. Krishna's Books. See you then!