CHALLENGES:
REPORTER CHALLENGE 2025
Who? What? Where? When? How?
Why? – Because it's fun!
Columnist: 10 books (2 from each category)
News Anchor: 15 books (3 from each category)
Editor: 20 books (4 from each category)
Newspaper Mogul: 25 books (5 from each category)
BONUS CATEGORY:
Pulitzer Prize Winner (Newspaper Mogul plus Bonus Category) = 30 books
EXTRA BONUS CATEGORY:
Nobel Prize for Literature (Newspaper Mogul plus Pulitzer Prize + Extra Bonus) = 31 books
TOTAL=16/31
5/5
WHO
Protagonist is established in their business or career The Little Lost Library by Ellery Adams (bookshop)
Any Character who is a dead person (ghost, skeleton, vampire, zombie…anybody who is dead) A New Lease on Death by Olivia Blacke (ghost)
A Main Character who works with animals (K9, trainer, vet, etc.) You Have Gone Too Far by Carlene O'Connor (vet)
A Side Character who is fun/kooky (you'd want to be this person's BFF) Miss Morton and the Spirits of the Underworld by Catherine Lloyd (Mrs. Frogerton)
A Character who works with books or writes A Killer Clue by Victoria Gilbert (Cataloger)
1/5
WHAT
A number in the title
A food in the title
Title starts with any letter in your first name
Holiday in the title A Halloween to Die For by M.P. Black
Title is a play on words
WHERE
Set in a city that starts with a C, an M or a T I'll Be Home for Mischief by Jacqueline Frost (Mistletoe, Maine)
Set in a hotel/B&B/ Airbnb (doesn't have to be whole story)
Set in a Midwest state
Set in a popular vacation spot (Hawaii, cruise, island, etc)
Set on foreign soil (NOT America or England) Death At An Irish Wedding by Ellie Brannigan (Ireland)
WHEN
Set during a celebration (not a holiday- birthday, business opening, wedding, etc)
Set in the 1900s We Three Queens by Rhys Bowen
Set during winter
Set during fall The Rose Arbor by Rhys Bowen
Set during a storm (doesn't have to be whole story)
3/5
HOW
Strangled
Stabbed
Shot The Case of the Christie Conspiracy by Kelly Oliver
Poisoned Murder in Season by Mary Winters
Blunt Instrument Hide and Sneak by G.A. McKevett
3/5
BONUS CATEGORY – PULITZER PRIZE
WHO – A book where you figured out who did it before the protagonist figured it out A Merry Little Murder Plot by Jenn McKinlay
WHAT – Title is at least six words Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder by Catherine Lloyd
WHERE – Set in a fictional place you would love to live
WHEN – During a Holiday (NOT Halloween or Christmas)
HOW – Not premeditated Gingerbread Danger by Amanda Flower
EXTRA BONUS CATEGORY – NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
Horoscope (from on-line or a newspaper or wherever)
Pick a horoscope from the 15th of any month. Then read a book that relates to that horoscope.
A - Z Challenge
8/26
A
Bitter Brew by G.A. McKevett
C
D
E
Fudge and Jury by Ellie Alexander
Gingerbread Danger by Amanda Flower
H
I Only Read Murder by Ian Ferguson & Will Ferguson
J
K
L
Miss Morton and the Deadly Inheritance by Catherine Lloyd
Now or Never by Janet Evanovich
O
P
Q
R
S
Trail of the Firewriter by R. J. Haig
U
V
W
X
You Shouldn't Be Here by Lauren Thoman
Z
Cruising Through the Cozies Challenge
Going for Investigator!
4/20 COMPLETED
2 from culinary (anything dealing with food: restaurants, baked goods, etc.)
2 from animal related (cats, dogs, birds, etc.)
It’s All in the Title Challenge 2025
1) Animal in title
2) Color in title
3) Number in title We Three Queens by Rhys Bowen
4) Job (or career) in title
5) Food in title
6) Flavor in title (chocolate, caramel, etc.) Gingerbread Danger by Amanda Flower
7) Holiday in title
8) Fire in title (flame, candle, light, etc.) Trail of the Firewriter by R. J. Haig
9) Name in title (any proper name) Miss Morton and the Deadly Inheritance by Catherine Lloyd
10) Place in title
11) Relationship in title (aunt, uncle, grandmother, parent, niece, etc.)
12) Supernatural element in title (witch, vampire, skeleton, etc.) Miss Morton and the Spirits of the Underworld by Catherine Lloyd
13) Weather in title (snow, cold, sunny, rain, ice, etc.)
14) Death in title A New Lease on Death by Olivia Blacke
15) Alliteration in title
16) Craft word in title (knit, needle, etc.)
17) Title is a play on words I'll Be Home for Mischief by Jacqueline Frost
18) Seven word title (or more) Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder by Catherine Lloyd
19) Two word title Bitter Brew by G.A. McKevett
20) Weapon in title
21) Action verb in title
22) Adjective in title
23) Piece of clothing in title
24) Library reference in title (checked out, etc.) The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C.M. Waggoner
25) Unusual word in title Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop by Emmeline Duncan
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