I have this feeling, this premonition, or perhaps it’s just a hope that 2016 is going to be a biggie. Already two of my books, Turnabout is Fatal Play and Decease and Desist, are available in paperback from Amazon. Within the first couple of months of this new year the […] Read more »
I have long been a champion of eBooks. Not that I had anything against “real” books, mind you. The only reason I got my first Kindle was that I’d run out of room for real books. I have at least one bookshelf in every room of my house, including the […] Read more »
Let’s get the Breaking News out of the way: The entire McCall-Malone Mystery series is going to be available in print! Which is to say, existing in the real world: On actual paper, available to be bought in a bookstore, checked out of a library, held in your hand, given […] Read more »
I didn’t buy my first Kindle because I was all hot to read words on a screen instead of on the page. I didn’t—and still—don’t enjoy reading material on my PC monitor and I figured the Kindle would be about the same. I bought it because I have bookshelves in […] Read more »
On Facebook the other day one of my writer friends was complaining about men who brag that they’re in good shape when they obviously are no longer in the prime of life. I responded that I often say I’m in good shape…for my age…and she agreed that that’s the right […] Read more »
I’ve always wanted to see a ghost. Not because I think it would be that much fun. I wouldn’t be surprised if it caused me to scream shrilly and piss myself. But it would be interesting to have some confirmation that weird, supposedly supernatural stuff (along with the truth) is […] Read more »
So I take a day off from editing to write a blog post about editing. Hmm. I’ll probably regret it tomorrow, when I’m back to editing again, but here goes anyway…. Editing is work. I didn’t even mention that in title, because it’s kind of a given. But, really, it’s […] Read more »
STOP THE PRESSES! It’s a cliché of ‘40s newspaper movies and early TV shows, right? Nobody ever actually yelled “Stop the Presses!” Well, yes, I know of at least one time…. It was the summer of 1967 and I was home in Evansville, Indiana, between getting my degree in […] Read more »
I expect to finish the draft of DYING OF DESIRE, the fourth book in the McCall-Malone Mystery series, within a few weeks. So I’ve decided to follow up last month’s teaser with one more before publication…sometime in April maybe? We’ll see. Anyway, here you go…. The three of us stopped […] Read more »
DYING OF DESIRE, the fourth book in the McCall-Malone Mystery series will be out in 2015. Once again McCall and Malone are in jeopardy as they very tentatively explore a relationship. A young man named George Heatherly wants the two Portland, Oregon, private investigators to simply look into the finances […] Read more »