BETH DOLGNER writes paranormal fiction and nonfiction. Her interest in things that go bump in the night really took off on a trip to Savannah, Georgia, so it’s fitting that her first series—Betty Boo, Ghost Hunter—takes place in that spooky city. Beth also writes paranormal nonfiction, including her first book, Georgia Spirits and Specters, which is a collection of Georgia ghost stories.

Beth and her husband, Ed, live in Tucson, Arizona, with their three cats. They’re close enough to Tombstone that Beth can easily visit its Wild West street and watch staged shootouts, all in the name of research for the Nightmare, Arizona series.

Beth also enjoys giving presentations on Victorian death and mourning traditions as well as Victorian Spiritualism. She has been a volunteer at an historic cemetery, a ghost tour guide, and a paranormal investigator.

Connect With the Author

★ MEET BETH, THE READER ★

What are your favorite genres to read?
I love paranormal cozy mysteries, of course, but I enjoy anything that gives me an escape from reality. Sometimes, that means diving into a Jane Austen novel. Other times, it's The Lord of the Rings or even a Star Wars novel.

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Who are your favorite authors to read?
I'm currently devouring Dean Rasmussen's paranormal mysteries. Jane Hinchey is one of my favorite paranormal cozy mystery authors, and in the classics category, I absolutely love fantasy novels by Ray Bradbury. The Halloween Tree and Something Wicked This Way Comes inspired my own approach to world-building.

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Do you remember what book initially piqued your interest in reading?
Paranormal mysteries have always been a favorite genre. As a kid, I used to get a Scooby-Doo book from the library, and I re-read the Bunnicula books so many times!

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What is the first book that made you cry?
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

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What is the first book that made you laugh out loud?
One of the Bunnicula books, for sure! I especially love The Celery Stalks at Midnight!

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What’s one book you feel is deeply underrated?
And why do you love it so much?

I read Ray Bradbury's The Halloween Tree every October. The book is written for tweens, but the descriptions absolutely transport me to a Halloween world--where I would happily live!

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Do you listen to music when you read?
If so, do you have a playlist?
Spooky books go great with the atmospheric music of Midnight Syndicate! If you've ever visited a haunted house attraction, you've probably heard their music. When I mention "spooky orchestral music" in my description of Nightmare Sanctuary Haunted House (from my Nightmare, Arizona paranormal cozy mysteries), it's a nod to Midnight Syndicate.

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If you could go to any place you’ve read about in a book (real or imagined), where would you go?
I would go to Rivendell in Middle-earth. Of all the places in The Lord of the Rings, that's where I most want to go on holiday!

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What book are you currently reading?
I'm actually reading a German cozy mystery! Mord in der Uckermark (Murder in the Uckermark) by David Safier. It's the first book in the Miss Merkel series, which imagines Angela Merkel as an amateur sleuth after her retirement from German politics.

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★ MEET BETH, THE WRITER ★

What’s one behind-the-scenes fact about your latest book
that you think readers would love to know?
Allie Nunes, the vampire singer in Slaying at the Saloon, gives her full name to the police as "Alexandra Nunes." She is named in honor of one of my beta readers, but "my" Alexandra goes by Alex instead of Allie.

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Without giving us any big spoilers,
what was your hardest scene for you to write?
Theo's backstory was hard to write. I wanted to convey the danger and heartbreak he endured during his time as a pirate without straying from the lighthearted, cozy vibes of this series.

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Of all your books, who is your favorite character and why?
I can't believe I'm admitting this, but it's Carter Lansford from my Betty Boo, Ghost Hunter series. Carter is a stuck-up, rich, entitled JERK when we first meet him, but of all my characters, he was the most fun to write. Plus, I enjoyed his story arc a lot.

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Do you listen to music when you write?
If so, do you have a playlist you'd like to share?
I listen to a lot of Midnight Syndicate when I write, plus the dark ambient album "All My Nights Were Trances" by Valentine Wolfe.

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If you weren't writing, what other creative pursuits,
if any, could you see yourself doing?
I love to sew, and I especially love
making costumes and Victorian-inspired outfits.

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WIP SNEAK PEEK!

What’s the first sentence of the manuscript you're currently working on?

"I yawned and blinked at Madge."

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★ BOOKSHELF SPOTLIGHT ★

DIG INTO A SHALLOW GRAVE AND A NEW PARANORMAL COZY MYSTERY SERIES.

Emily Buchanan has always dealt with ghosts at Eternal Rest Bed and Breakfast—after all, it is next to the town’s historic cemetery. When paranormal activity begins to escalate, though, she knows that someone—or something—is desperately trying to communicate. When a body is discovered in a shallow grave, an old town scandal is resurrected, and Emily knows she has to find out what happened if her guests and her ghosts are ever going to get a good night’s sleep.

SWEET DREAMS, the first full-length novel in the new Eternal Rest Bed and Breakfast paranormal cozy mysteries by Beth Dolgner. Set in the rural North Georgia town of Oak Hill, where antiques shopping is a lot more common than murder, Emily Buchanan runs Eternal Rest Bed and Breakfast in a Victorian house built right next to a cemetery. Emily teams up with her best friend and psychic medium Sage Clark and the ghosts of Eternal Rest to solve murders. The only mystery Emily can't solve is why her late husband's spirit seems to be trapped between this world and the next.

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