My final blog tour stop for THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY is at The Kill Zone. In Making a Bad Situation Worse, I talk about how I have to manufacture the worst possible scenarios and it’s all because my background. Enjoy! My […]
My THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY blog tour continues today and stops at Janet Rudolph’s MYSTERY FANFARE for a piece entitled MAKING OF A MONSTER. Be warned: some assembly is required. The essay looks at the villain of the book and he was […]
So THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY has been out for a month (two if you’re an Amazon Prime Member) and reader feedback has been coming in. Quite a lot of it actually. On Amazon.com, the book has racked up almost 2,000 reviews so […]
I’m a big music freak and as I’ve done with my last couple of books, I’ve created a playlist for my heroine Zoë Sutton from THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY. Zoë’s playlist is pretty dark as she’s a troubled woman, not surprising […]
I’m at Left Coast Crime—Portland and this is my schedule while I’m there. Coffee with Simon Wood (sold out) Friday, March 13, 2015 from 11:30am–1:00pm The Sex Panel with Chelsea Cain, Jess Lourey, Linda Joffe Hull, Holly West and me Friday, March […]
I find it funny (aka weird) what you, the public, readers and my social media circle pick up on. Over the last year or so, there’s been a myth developing on the convention circuit about my #1 wife, Julie—namely, that she doesn’t […]
I witnessed the birth of my sixteenth child a week last Sunday. Although it’s my sixteenth baby, I’m just excited to see it as the first one. THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY weighed in at 10oz and 8 inches long from head […]
I’m on a virtual book tour for THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY. My first stop is at Femmes Fatale, the joint blog for women in crime featuring Dana Cameron, Elaine Viets, Catriona McPherson, Donna Andrews to name a few. The driving force […]
I have a soft spot for autograph hunters and book collectors. Book collectors kindly gave me an education in the education of book collecting and autographing when my first book came out (as I wrote about previously). So I’ve always made a […]
My wife, Julie, said to me a little while ago, “I’ve been with you too long.” Goodie, I thought, we’re finished. I can go girlfriend shopping at the weekend. I wonder if that Kate Upton is seeing anyone. But seeing as Julie […]