7 Eclectic Songs on my Playlist and Why I Love Them
As I assembled this list, I noticed many of the songs feature piano accompaniment, which makes sense since my mother taught piano. Many are old, but not all. I […]
Food for Thought
Waiting at a stoplight, I amused myself by watching a guy saunter down the opposite sidewalk. He wore camouflage pants and was bow-legged as if he rode a motorcycle. When […]
My Effusive (but touchingly modest) Virtual Podium Speech for being HONORABLY MENTIONED by Writer’s Digest
I arrive at the front of the auditorium in my little black dress without mishap and scan the crowd of mystery fans who almost certainly haven’t read my books. “Wow!” […]
TITLE CHANGE
NEW NAME, same good book. The Writer’s Digest judge who described CURED…BUT NOT OUT OF DANGER as “a real gem of a novel,” and selected it as one of her […]
MY MOTHER’S BOOKS
CHALK IT UP TO INSTINCT, but after my mother passed away, I did something right. I kept her scant remaining belongings in boxes in my office to sift through at […]
DECLARING MY INDEPENDENCE
Going independent–lots of authors are doing it, and now I have, too. It was not an easy decision, complicated by the lucky fact that my track record–seven cozy mysteries put […]
ME & MY NEW MAIN CHARACTER–BFF AT LAST
The ride from Philadelphia to Ithaca, NY, feels especially long in bad weather. I spent the time with a yellow tablet in my lap playing with names for a Pennsylvania […]
