Knowing It’s Controversial
My new book, On Behalf of the Family, is the third in a series featuring Detective Dave Mason of the Santa Monica Police Department. He is presented with a complex car arson death of a beautiful and...
Hiding Aboard a Cruise Ship
I’ve just returned from a six-week cruise ship experience in the South Seas. Was it everything I’d dreamed? Of course, in some ways. Nothing beats going to sleep rocked by the gentle motion of the...
My Cruise Ship Mystery
I know that I’m a lucky woman. They say it’s better to be lucky than rich. I must have made some good choices in life, because I’ve sure as hell made some lollapalooza bad ones. This week I’ll...
Why Continue Publishing?
Radine Trees Nehring wrote an inspired blog http://radine.wordpress.com/ recently about the reasons for poor financial prospects in the mystery writing game. My heart sank as I read it because it...
The world is not breathless in anticipation of my next murder mystery.
I imagine those of you who are mystery writers have also received this memo. Everyone is writing murder mysteries these days. There are mysteries that open an aperture into the world of dogs, of...
My Nasty Little Spider Solitaire Addiction
Am I the only writer out there who is addicted to Spider Solitaire? I can sit at my desk with my current mystery open in one screen, and all too easily switch screens, and allow myself only one...
The Mystery Writer as Researcher
What happens when an idea for a book strikes and won't leave you alone? What if it's something you know nothing about? Such as banjo picking, as in the second book of my second series set in the...
Bad Reviews
I have only received one terrible review and that’s too bad because I learned a lot from the experience. I was green as grass at the new business of self-publishing in 2010 and did not hire a...
Committing the Perfect Murder
You’ve read all these murder mysteries of one kind and another from grisly hard-boiled noir to the sweetest cozy. You’ve seen all the tricks and seen how the detectives unravel a Gordian Knot of a...
