In issue 174; Tips from a bestseller, Stay humble, Show or tell, Douglas McPherson shows how a sure fire winner of a short story proved to be anything but, Break into Cosy Crime, plus regular items – Dear Della, Guru, Technophobia, Story and Poetry contests, Flash comp and more.
Unable to make friends with her hostile bunkmates, Sarah decides to stage an accident to make everyone feel sorry for her, but the plan goes awry when a dangerous ghost named Della decides to keep Sarah for an eternal friend.
Meet Della Carmichael, owner of a cooking school in Santa Monica, California, and star of a new cable cooking show. She's one of three judges for an A-list cook-off -- but it's the celebrities who are getting cooked off... Della's agreed to be on the panel for the Celebrity Cook-Off Charity Gala. The spotlights are fixed on twenty celebrities, amateur cooks for the night, preparing their favorite dishes in a hotel ballroom. But before the judges have a chance to sample the delights, food columnist and gold-digging playboy Keith Ingram is found dead. And one of Della's closest friends, LAPD Lieutenant John 0' Hara, is the prime suspect. His supposed motive?
Meet Della Carmichael, owner of a cooking school in Santa Monica, California, and star of a brand-new cable cooking show. But now she's about to add an additional credit to her resume: suspect. The first live airing of In the Kitchen with Della opens like other cooking shows--with a chef surrounded by bowls of ingredients in a shiny studio kitchen. But it ends like a crime-scene detective show--and Della is the suspected perp.
Meet Della Carmichael, owner of a cooking school in Santa Monica, California, and star of a new cable cooking show. When Della enters a baking competition to promote her show, she soon finds the cakes aren't the only things getting iced... To help boost ratings for her show, humble host Della reluctantly agrees to enter a televised cake competition sponsored by Reggi-Mixx, even though the company's owner, Regina Davis, is an old college nemesis. When Della hears that competitive pastrymaking is a blood sport, she doesn't take it literally--until she finds someone drowned in a mixing bowl full of cake batter.
