Erica J. Whelton is a Texas-based indie author of over twenty-five (and counting) cozy mystery and women's fiction novels across six series, including the Alphabet Soup Mysteries, A Medium with a Heart, and The Cozy Purrch Cafe Mysteries. Her path to writing started with childhood bedtime stories told to the animal posters on her walls, a habit she never outgrew. When she's not plotting fictional murders, she's making tea, spoiling her pets, and being endlessly charmed by her three grandsons. She has a well-documented weakness for the color pink and basically anything awesome.