The Pittsburgh / Golden Girls Connection!
There are actually two Pittsburgh / Golden Girls connections according to Wikipedia, because “Dena Dietrich (born in Pittsburgh) appears as Gloria Mayson, Sophia's daughter and Dorothy's sister, in a Season 7 episode of The Golden Girls.”
But there’s only one Littsburgh / Golden Girls connection, and that’s Murder By Cheesecake: A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery by Rachel Ekstrom Courage!
Rachel’s a literary agent who co-founded Littsburgh in 2015 and rediscovered her love of writing during the pandemic. You’ve probably heard us talking about her Young Adult debut (also publishing in 2025, more on that soon)… but she had to keep this particular book top-secret until Disney revealed the cover on the Golden Girls Instagram account last week!
Murder by Cheesecake is “the first novel in the all-new Golden Girls Cozy Mystery Series” and it’s now available to pre-order where books are sold!
We’re super excited that Littsburgh is now kinda-sorta part of the Golden Girls universe by way of Rachel and we hope you’ll pre-order a copy from your favorite bookstore (and forward this email to your Golden Girl-loving friends)!
We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming soon (more excerpts! more interviews! more local author events!) but if you’d like to join Rachel on this journey, she’s trying to be a little bit more present on Instagram and Substack these days…
Looking for a lighthearted, teal-bloused, botanical-printed, escapist read?
We defer, as always, to Dorothy:
Yours in books,
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