Please welcome Rebecca M. Douglass, our featured author! Douglass is a long-time member of our Facebook and Insecure Writer’s Support Group sites. She is a prolific writer who has published many novels as well as stories in collections and anthologies.
She appreciates the IWSG for supporting her so many years and says many members have really helped her along the way. Her author's website is Rebecca M. Douglass.
Rebecca M. Douglass
Currently #38 Rebecca M.Douglass - The Ninja Librarian on Our IWSG Sign-in Page
Rebecca’s latest cozy mystery, published on August 25, 2025, is Edited Out, the third book in her Seffi Wardwell Mysteries. Seffi is a retired science teacher who moved to Maine for peace and quiet, but her curiosity drives her to investigate local deaths instead.
Edited Out (Seffi Wardwell #3)
Rebecca M Douglass - Goodreads
Rebecca M Douglass - Goodreads
Who erased the writer?
Winter in Maine is long, dark, and cold, and California transplant Seffi Wardwell is combating the winter blues with a full calendar. Tending the plants at the local bed-and-breakfast, writing reports for the library, and keeping an eye on events in Smelt Point barely leaves time for pastry and gossip at Sweet Dreams, the local bakery and heart of the village.
When the participants at an artistic retreat held at the bed-and-breakfast grow combative, Seffi is there to smooth things over, stiffen the spine of the innkeeper, and keep things going. But when a writer turns up dead, Seffi’s called on to wield a different kind of expertise. Then someone lets slip there was poison in a coffee bought at Sweet Dreams, and it looks like Seffi’s favorite source of treats is in real trouble. Can her knowledge of plants save the inn—and the local bakery—before the killer strikes again and tears the heart out of Smelt Point?
Book #3 Seffi Wardwell Mysteries
Rebecca published the five-book, one-novella Pismawallops PTA Mysteries that feature amateur sleuth JJ MacGregor as she solves murders on fictional Pismawallops Island in Puget Sound. JJ is a PTA mom, and she seizes the initiative when mystery and murder roil her personal life and her community. Readers enjoy the tight plotting, well-defined characters, and humor which runs through her series.
Book #5 Pismawallops PTA Mysteries
Rebecca has also published the entertaining Ninja Librarian Series set in middle-of-nowhere Skunk Corner. Skunk Corner has a library and a history of running librarians out of town, until Tom, the Ninja Librarian, arrives and shake things up. While the series was written for middle grade readers, readers of all ages enjoy it.
Book #1 Ninja Librarian Series
Notably, Rebecca’s short stories appear in two IWSG anthologies, "A Stitch in Crime" in Tick Tock: A Stitch in Time and "A World of Trouble" in Voyagers: The Third Ghost.
Rebecca makes the most of life! She has lived in, worked in, and explored the American west, often returning to hike and backpack in her beloved Sierra Nevada mountains and the desert southwest. She has also enjoyed traveling in Maine. After raising her two sons and working as a librarian for seventeen years, she retired to focus on reading, writing, and travel.
In September 2025 Rebecca explored Iceland in a campervan while editing her WIP Painted Over. You can read about her adventures exploring Iceland with Petey Possum on her website.
Hiking the Desert Southwest
Gullfoss ~ One of the Places Rebecca Visited in Iceland
Photo by M. Louise Barbour, 2014
You can buy Rebecca's books in a variety of places listed on her author's website:
If you have enjoyed any of Rebecca's books, we'd love to hear in the comments.
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Questions for Our Members:
You may know that I am one of the IWSG administrators. One thing I think about a lot is how to make our Facebook site and IWSG website more valuable for members.
I posted a similar article about Rebecca M. Douglass on our Facebook site earlier this week. Then I thought it would be good to post it here as well for two reasons. First, because Rebecca is a longtime member whose books I have read and enjoyed, and second because I think it would be awesome to get to know our members better.
What do you think of featuring members in this way?
What would you like to see on our sites?
I'd appreciate your feedback!
Till next time ~ Fundy Blue
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