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Sally Collins holding a copy of 'Muddled Cherries."

Sally Collins

Wisconsin is fertile ground for fiction writers, and Door County-based author Sally Collins sets her debut coming-of-age novel, Muddled Cherries, on the famous peninsula. The story follows 20-year-old Emily Schmidt, stuck working at her father’s flagging tavern in her western Wisconsin hometown. But an unsettling incident involving one of the tavern’s regulars prompts Emily to embark on a journey across the state to Door County in search of a new start. She finds that and more when she takes a job at a restaurant on the shore of Lake Michigan. Fun fact: Collins has served countless old-fashioneds and fish fries.