Bridle Path Press

07/17/2025

Enter now for chance to win one of the second in the Nun the Wiser series!

Enter to win one of 100 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jun 23-Jul 23, 2025. The bodies keep piling up along Chestnut Street and a millennial ...

05/31/2025

Your smile for the weekend!

05/14/2025

Hooray! WRITING THE COZY MYSTERY won the Agatha for Best Non-Fiction. Here's Marni Graff, one of many contributors, with editor Phyllis Betz holding the Agatha teapot!

04/13/2025

A great new release from Mel Westemeier:

It's been a week since Old Habits Die Hard came out, launching the Nun the Wiser Mysteries, and I'm beside myself with joy because people's reviews have EXCEEDED my expectations. Writing is subjective and I know many exceptionally talented people who can write circles around my best efforts, so when...

04/03/2025

It feels like Christmas morning--all the anticipation bubbling for weeks, even months--and it's finally here! You can buy your paperback or digital copy of Old Habits Die Hard at a bookseller near you! I'm so thrilled to share these characters and this wonderful mystery with readers and I look forwa...

03/13/2025

There are endless ways to write a story. Some authors pen their prose early in the morning or only at[...]

03/08/2025

Having a handicap license pass displayed on my mirror I parked and got out of the car, I had this lady say to me, "well, you look perfectly normal to me!", as I turned to look at her and said, very seriously, "maybe that's part of the problem, you can't see what's lurking under my shell." The look on her face was priceless! Just because YOU can't SEE it doesn't mean it doesn't exist! Until you have walked in our shoes and have felt the pain we feel, keep your cruel and ignorant comments and opinions to yourself. I'm posting to stop people from mocking and laughing at people for things beyond their control...
Not one of my Facebook friends will copy and paste (but I am counting on a true family member or friend to do it). If you would be there no matter what then copy and paste this. I'm doing this to prove a friend wrong that someone is always listening. I care.
Hard to explain to someone who has no clue. It's a daily struggle being in pain or feeling sick on the inside while you look fine on the outside.
Please put this as your status for at least 1 hour if you or someone you know has an invisible illness (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS), IBS, Crohn's, PTSD, Anxiety, Arthritis, Cancer, Heart Disease, Bipolar, Depression, Diabetes, Lupus, Fibromyalgia, MS, AS, ME, , Epilepsy, hereditary angioedema , Migraines, Hashimotos, AUTISM, Borderline personality disorder, M.D.,D.D.D., CFS, Histiocytosis, O.D.D, A.D.H.D, RSD, RA (rheumatoid arthritis ) PBC,RLS ,COPD, Sarcoidosis, etc.) Never judge cause you cannot see a traumatic brain injury(stroke victim) ❤ 🙏
For those who don't know how to copy and paste on FB...hold your finger on the text.
I'm doing this for any family member or friend who is disabled but don't look it on the outside!

I’m posting this to support all those with invisible illnesses❣️

02/12/2025

A new historical with a fascinating sleuth!

Please welcome Rob Osler, here to tell us about designing the protagonist of his new historical series, and its first[...]

02/02/2025

Another place to visit! Great story waiting to be written here~

Ever come across the 'Terrible Knitters of Dent'? Dent is a tiny, quiet hill village near Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, instantly recognisable for its whitewashed cottages. Until the 19th century, Dent would have resounded with the clickety clack of hundreds of knitting needles! In those days knitting wasn't an activity associated with women or hobbies - it was something done by men, women and children and was an essential way to supplement meagre incomes.

Whether from farming or lead-mining families, most Dales inhabitants were poor and needed to supplement their income. The solution was to knit at every opportunity. Children were sent to live with cottagers in Dent so they could learn the trade, in an early kind of sweat shop, being cajoled or whipped to knit as quickly as possible. Women knitted as soon as their housework was done. Men knitted on their way to and from work. The Dales knitters were known for their incredible dexterity.

They used a simple tool called a 'knitting stick', a wooden stick that was tucked into a waist belt, which anchored needles and enabled knitters to knit with just one hand. This meant that knitters could do two things at once, perhaps churning butter as they knitted.

The Dales Countryside Museum has a great collection of knitting sticks. Some of them are quite plain, whereas others are more decorative and probably made as gifts for sweethearts. You can also find out more about them at Farfield Mill, Sedbergh

So famous were the astoundingly quick knitters of Dent, people still talk about the "terrible knitters of Dent". Groups of people would often gather in one cottage to save fuel for fires and light, knitting and telling stories or singing as they worked. Knitters were brought yarn by merchants who also collected the socks, stockings, mittens, hats and jackets they knitted and took them off to market.

​Each Dale would have had their own distinctive patterns, a bit like Fair Isle where complex patterns were handed down from family to family.

01/18/2025

Michael Sheen reading a lost Dylan Thomas poem— what a voice! What words and images!