Writing a Mystery: What I’ve Learned
I took a break away from the hard work of writing another police procedural mystery when I’d finished the third in the series called On Behalf of the Family. At that point I was waiting for the...
Pushing Past Writers Roadblocks
Damn, it’s hard to reconnect with your story having taken three days off to be a tourist in downtown Los Angeles. It’s hard to reconnect with your story—or whatever you’re working on—after taking...
Mystery Conference Update – Bouchercon 2014
What is Bouchercon? http://www.bouchercon2014.com/programming.php For both authors and readers, it’s the meeting place to rub shoulders with the famous, near famous, and soon to be famous—all...
Clark Lohr, one of my favorite Southwest action adventure mystery writers
Clark Lohr, one of my favorite Southwest action mystery writers, introduces us to his protagonist, Manny Aguilar. I tagged Clark Lohr as part of a blog hop tour. Manuel “Manny” Aguilar makes a...
Introducing Dave Mason of the Santa Monica Police Department
Sheila Lowe, my fellow mystery writer and friend, tagged me in this blog hop tour to craft a 500-word blog about the main character in my Dave Mason police procedural series. Check out Sheila Lowe...
Confused and Defensive about Cops
I write crime fiction about a cop and his world, a homicide detective in the Santa Monica Police Department. Detective Dave Mason has his faults, of course, but try as I might, I do not have the...
Writing Your First Mystery
At the direction of my good friend, Judith Cassis, who is a professional writer and marketer, I have just finished three eBooks of about 10,000 words on the topic of writing your first mystery. Have...
Website Hack
Foolishly I thought it would never happen to me because I was careful. Now that it has happened and been corrected, I see the yawning holes I left wide open for hackers. I hope that with the...
The Writer as Watcher
Writing police procedurals as I do, I read a lot of police procedural fiction because I enjoy it. It’s not as if I want to imagine myself in the role of the first on scene investigator. Imagine the...
