[1] According to the author's website, "While pursuing her writing career, Joanne has worked as a public school teacher, a psychologist, a musician, a private detective’s assistant, a corporate, legal, and pharmaceutical secretary, a short-order cook, a florist’s assistant, a caterer and party planner, a computer consultant on a now-defunct operating system, a production assistant on a TV quiz show, half of a screenwriting team with her husband, and a mother, wife, and homemaker.
"[7] Fluke is married to television writer Ruel E. Fischmann[2] and lives with her husband, children and stepchildren in southern California.
[1] Fluke began writing her cozy mystery series starring Hannah Swensen, an "amateur sleuth and baker", in 2000.
[8] Hannah Swensen lives in a small Minnesota town, and Fluke feels that the stories are a welcome escape from reality.
[9] Library Journal writes that the depiction of the story in Cinnamon Roll Murder is so natural, it is difficult to remember that the characters are fictional.