Don’t Panic
I’ve been blithely writing away, Ta da da, happy as can be, on Muddy River mysteries for a while now. As if I didn’t have a care in the world. I mean, I’m self-publishing this series, so there are no...
View ArticleRejection
I haven’t written a short story for a long time. Short novels? Yes. Novellas? Love ’em. But a short story? I haven’t tried any since C.S. Boyack got me in the mood to write a few when he posted...
View ArticleThe British are coming~
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m not much of a fan of thirty-minute comedies or evening game shows on TV. I’m hooked on Dancing With the Stars, but it hasn’t been on for a while, and I’ve never...
View ArticleIt’s Up!
I just wanted to share that my third paranormal mystery, Mixing It Up With Mortals, went live on Amazon today. Yay! https://amzn.to/2ymaQrW Raven and Hester are asked to find out what happened to a...
View ArticleNo More Webpage
I’ve had a weebly webpage for years. I used it to put up free chapters of books I wrote and never did anything with. That sounds odd, I know, but I played around with different genres here and there,...
View ArticleGetting excited
I signed up for two conferences this year, both near the end of conference season. I went to Magna cum Murder in Indy at the end of October last year and decided to go back for their 25th anniversary....
View ArticleChanging Things Up
Years ago, there was a romance writer that I found, and I got a kick out of the blurb for her book, bought it, read it, and loved it. I went right out and bought the second book in the series. When I...
View ArticleWhy? For every book?
Some people turn on the spigot and words pour out. They can reach over 100,000 words, then have to cut. Not me. My words are stingy, little boogers that make me work for every single one of them. As...
View ArticleFirst comes love–but it’s bumpy– then..???
I’ve been reading more lately. Some of the books are new series to me. And most of them, no matter the genre, have a touch of romance in them. How that plays out is interesting. With the Jazzi...
View ArticleCarnival Row (spoilers)
I don’t watch a lot of TV. We have BritBox, so I can watch British mysteries, and my husband loves the Great British Baking Show even more than I do, but when I saw the clips for Carnival Row on...
View ArticleHigh School
I just turned in the manuscript for my fifth Jazzi Zanders mystery–The Body in the Past. I beat my deadline–Nov. 4–and it feels good. In this book, Jazzi is trying to find out what happened to a young...
View ArticleWeddings
We’re driving to Indy on Friday…again. This time, it’s to celebrate. My grandson and his Emily are getting married on Saturday, Nov. 9. My daughter’s bought a long, navy blue dress to be mother of...
View ArticleEveryone Needs a Ralph
After DH retired, we started meeting a group of old friends at Wrigley Field Bar and Grill every other Tuesday. DH knew them all through high school. I met them once I “married into the group.”...
View ArticleSetting
I just finished reading Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger. He’s a celebrated writer, but that’s not why I bought his book. I bought it because I met him at Magna cum Murder and he impressed me. When...
View ArticleNothing on the calendar next week
I finished writing my plot points for Jazzi 6 and sent them to my editor. 38 of them. And they were long. But that’s one chore done. This book will have two different unrelated murders in it, and...
View ArticleTime’s Running Out
I’m beginning to sympathize with the people who did NaNoWriMo in November. They had a short amount of time to write a whole lot of words. When I decided to try to write two books at the same time, I...
View ArticleBeing Benched Is A Bummer
We’ve had a lot of company and seen a lot of people over the holidays. Most of our friends have retired and their kids are grown. But all of us can still be rattled when our kids hit a bumpy patch,...
View ArticleFinishing Up
I’ve mentioned before that I rewrite as I go when I work on a book. This time, for the Lux novel I’m working on, I felt as though I’d written too lean. I have a habit of doing that. So before I...
View ArticleMystery Musings
My critique partner and I exchanged manuscripts last week. We read and marked up each other’s pages and exchanged them again at writers’ club on Wednesday. I value her comments, and hopefully, she...
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Wednesday’s Shameless Plug
My fourth Jazzi Zanders cozy mystery is available for pre-order now and is due out March 17, two days after the Ides of March, so you don’t have to beware:)...
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