Fiddlefarting Around

I willing acknowledge that my “creative process” is a long and winding road, taking many varied and assorted detours between concept and completion. Between the time I first thought about Book One in my Cozy Mystery series until I wrote “The...

Re-reading Book One

To begin Book Two, I must naturally reacquaint myself with Book One. What means I have to re-read the whole thing, or at least do a good job of skimming through it. You’d think I’d have a pretty good handle on remembering the whole thing, beings how I...

What’s a “Cozy”?

I used to have a hard time defining the genre of my novels. Apparently, describing the main character “like Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum all grown up,” left a lot of people forever in the dark. But saying I write Cozy Mysteries leaves them just...

Alvin demands equal time

“Hey! Over here! Remember me, the cat you brought home a year ago today? Why’d the new little terror get his say in your blog a couple days ago while you’ve never let me near your keyboard? It’s not that I’m jealous of Simon or anything....

Simon Says:

“Hey! Listen up! It’s not my fault I didn’t know the rules about putting away the holiday decorations! I’m just a little guy; it’s my first Christmas! Don’t you think squirting me with the squirt gun every time I was having fun was...