No one can proofread their own work with any competence. The mind is tricky, inserting words that don’t lie on the printed page. Ever tried to read those garbled words/passages that show up on Facebook? As long as the first and last letters of the word are correct,...
Really good books are about a lot of things, some of them heavy social issues. Raymond Chandler’s novels are about crime and corruption in the 1940s in a place he called Bay City, in truth, Santa Monica. Myy first novel, No Dice, published in 2010, is about crime and...
I write police procedurals in the whodunit genre. I like the cerebral quality of following the detective in an investigation. With a thriller you know soon who the evil villain is and his big stakes plan to take over the world. Then it’s all a race against the clock...
I see lots of women my age trundling craft supplies into the clubhouse: lace making, quilting, scrapbooking, card creation. I pass by hearing them laughing and having a good time. I live in a tiny mountain village in the mountains a good bit north of the Los Angeles...
I’ve read one too many books that get a good story going then drop into the past tense to catch us up on why all these exciting events have happened. I’ve just published a 20,000 word EBook on the subject of Writing Backstory in Your Mystery. It’s the current one in...
I also blog on a site called LadyKillers where the topic turned to favorite expressions of our characters. I’m not aware that the four main characters in my two series of mysteries have favorite expressions. I’m trying and trying to think. You as readers will have to...
