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...
My Dave Mason police procedural series is about the Santa Monica Police Department and the city itself, a tourist destination with a colorful background, present, and future. I love Santa Monica, but will others care that much? What is critical information for me, the...
My second murder mystery has been published, titled Rip-Off. People ask why you write one kind of book and not another. Why whodunit murder mysteries in my case? Why not literary family fiction? I worked decades as an academic researcher at the University of Southern...
