Sheesh, how many times you gotta check facts?? I got an email recently from Rebecca, my production editor. She was alerting me that I might
When I write — whether for kids or adults — I seem to be drawn to characters who are going about their normal, everyday lives,
Books, movies, and television are saturated with bad guys, some of whom we even like. Fagin. Beetlejuice. Shere Khan. Moby Dick. Macbeth. All the characters
When I’m done with a manuscript, and the book is in print, I’m left with my 3-ring binder which holds the final draft, any research
Life is all about unknowns. If I knew about my spinal tumor 15 years ago when it began growing would I have done anything differently?
I opened my wormy can in a Facebook group by asking some cozy mystery readers which tropes they hated. It was a tad disingenuous on
Excerpted from 8 Weeks to a Complete Novel—How To Write Faster, Write Better, Be More Organized I feel my clock ticking. I came late to
You don’t have to complete the crossword puzzles in my Crossword Mysteries Series to solve the mysteries in the books. The puzzles are just a
***SPOILER ALERT*** If you want to do the Fictional Female Sleuths puzzle before I talk about how I constructed it, stop right now and go
Have you ever heard someone say, “I’m so OCD” when they do something perfectly reasonable like fold their towels a particular way (in my case,