2017 writing resolutions

2017 writing resolutions

Last week I worked on my 2017 writing resolutions. A bit late, don’t you think? Yeah, I hear you. But so far, this year hasn’t been about writing. It’s been about family, and about ICEFALL When we learned late last year that my son and his family...
summer laundry confessions #firstworldproblems

summer laundry confessions #firstworldproblems

This is my laundry room this morning. This is where my towels stay all summer. Actually, they stay here 50% of the time anyway, but always during the summer. I usually wash a load a day. Every other day at least. See, one of my books was super successful (yes, just...
casting the new book

casting the new book

Today I’m digging around in Google Images looking for the people who will star in the book I’m writing next. And guess what? It’s not the book I’d decided on a couple of weeks ago! That one will eventually be written, but circumstances dictate...
release day madness

release day madness

It’s release day for RITE OF WRONGS, my first Detective Miriam Rome procedural thriller! And what do we do on release day, you ask? Wake to the husband yelling that I never set up my Amazon Author Page for readers to follow. Get up, make coffee, climb the stairs...
traveler’s notebooks

traveler’s notebooks

I remember exactly when I first heard the term Traveler’s Notebook. Or at least heard the words that would lead me to finding out everything there is to know about an item that I would fall ridiculously in love with. It was all Stephanie Tyler’s fault on...
my love affair with non-u.s. crime tv

my love affair with non-u.s. crime tv

I don’t know why, when I watch no U.S. network crime shows, that I can’t get enough of foreign productions. The Acorn TV subscription available through Amazon Prime (and other devices) is making it hard not to sit and watch for hours at a time. I’m...