If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile (this is post number 746, believe it or not), then you know I began writing the second book in my cozy mystery series in mid-January. And then it was like the gods and cosmos and planetary alignment and all things surreal...
Exactly five months ago, I celebrated the fact that the 2012 “Bazaar Season” was officially over, and relished the idea of not preparing for another big book selling event until October, 2013. But time has a way of easing all pain, and in a weak moment in February, I...
Quick! Name the actress/ singer/ director/ composer/ producer/ designer/ author/ photographer/ activist who is the only artist to ever receive an Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, National Medal of Arts and Peabody Awards, France’s...
I needed to find an unusual method that I could use to kill off one of the guys in my novel. Note: Novel = fiction—let’s be clear about that. I’m harmless. I’ve never been either violent or deranged, and the only reason I’ve been fingerprinted is because it’s required...
A long, long, time ago (just typing those words makes me want to start singing “American Pie”), I was given the best piece of writing advice ever. I’d been struggling with defining my niche as a writer, and frustrated that I couldn’t get down deep into my gut and...
