New Ride

What do you do when you’re injured and can’t ride…build a bike! This is a 2009 Trek Alpha 2.3 built from a secondhand bike frameset, spares, used parts and new parts.

POV Writing Workshop Starts Next Week!!

My online workshop on Point-of-View writing starts on April 4th. Oddly, 2022 has proved very popular for this topic. I’m slated to give a shortened version of this workshop to four different writing organization this year already. If you want to learn […]

Mystery Writers of America & Me!

  2022 is turning into the year of the conference speaker for me. I, along with Leslie Budewitz and Jessica Brody, will the presenters at a virtual conference on fiction writing on May 14, 2022! It’s put on by the Northwest chapter […]

SinC-Up!!

No, SinC-Up! isn’t an NSYNC tribute act. It’s a video series put out by Sisters in Crime. Each week a writer gives a 2-minute writing tip and I am this week’s tipper (or is it tipster)! Anyway, please enjoy this video and […]

A TALE OF OUR WORLD…

With much regret, I feel Charles Dickens’ words need a little editing/updating for the times we live in… “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, […]

2022 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

I’ve scheduled my writing workshops for the first half of 2022 and they are as follows: PLOT THICKENERS (Starts March 7th) SHIFTING POVs (Starts April 4th) KILLER SUSPENSE (Starts May 2nd) QUERY LETTERS & SYNOPSIS WRITING (Starts June 6th) NEW! SHORT STORIES (Starts July 11th) AUTHOR PROFESSIONALISM (Starts August […]

Author Confessional

My writing life is very much like a duck on a pond.  It looks as if all is smooth and calm as the duck guides along the water.  However, what the observer can’t see is all the thrashing going on below the […]

Offline :-(

Life has taken me offline for the foreseeable future. Last weekend, a truck and horse trailer crashed into me while riding my bike. My bike was totaled (and is in pieces) and I have a separated shoulder. Luckily, I landed in a […]

STOCKING STUFFERS!!

It’s that time of year, so if you’re looking to give a book for Christmas and you’re going to make it one of mine, bless your heart. If you want to get a book autographed or personalized to that special someone (even […]