The Pitch Slam—or Pitch Slap—is that moment in a writer’s life when you are for the first time across a table from a living, breathing literary agent. For the writer, this person is more important to you than your beloved, your mother–even your dog. The hardest...
California Ghost Hunters shook up the audience at the October meeting of the LA Chapter of Sisters-in-Crime, October 7, 2012. I should explain that the whole paranormal thing has whooshed past me. Because I’m skeptical by nature, I didn’t believe that others could...
I’ve read that Paris Hilton wears a T-shirt once, has it dry cleaned, and after the second time she wears it she gives it away. I wonder where it goes. Her staff? Her cleaning ladies? Charity? Ah, charity. Lately our Mountain Communities SPCA has set up a Thrift...
Just returned from a road trip with my brother Dan who lives in Canada. Some trepidation at spending a long time in a car and a tent with him. It would be the longest time we have ever been alone together in adulthood. And it went well—an easy, pleasant flow of days...
I thought the story about readers identifying with characters in your work was apocryphal. When it happened to me with unpleasant results it surprised me. In my first book, NO DICE, a character changes his name when he enters law school, hoping to disguise his...
Interview with Mystery Author Mar Preston Posted by Nicole Weaver on June 27, 2012 at 8:47amView Blog Mystery author See http://www.bloggymoms.com/profiles/blogs/interview-with-mystery-author-mar-preston# Mar Preston talks about her latest novel, Rip-Off, the second...
