I’d be a liar if I said I didn’t want millions and millions of loyal readers—and dare I say it—fans. I don’t think any scribbler can expect that. Luck and timing is too big a factor. If it happens, great, and if […]
I have the jitters. Book jitters to be exact. I always get them with an impending release. The One That Got Away is done. My editors and I have whittled away at it over several months and it’s as good as it’s going […]
It’s time for some more homophones! If you don’t now what homophone is, it’s a word that is pronounced the same way as another word with a different meaning, such carat and carrot. What I’m doing isn’t quite like that but similar. […]
For the want of a better phrase, I’m in the entertainment industry, no different from singers, filmmakers and sporting franchises. It’s a high profile but fickle industry. One day it’s all great, the next it’s in the toilet. Take a look at […]
I caught an interview with Rob Reiner and his editor Robert Leighton at the American Film Institute on TV the other week. They discussed their work before being opening it up to questions from the audience which consisted of film students of […]
Plagiarism is nothing new to me, sadly. My work has been plagiarized several times. Never my fiction, always my nonfiction. The first time was a few years ago. I’d given a presentation to a Sisters in Crime chapter. Twenty-four hours later the […]
I am one of those people who sets a resolution or two every year. I like to give myself a challenge. I may not always succeed or I may give something a whirl that I don’t actually like once I’ve tried it […]
It’s the end of the year, so I’m being a reflecty. I won’t say it’s been my best year ever but it’s been pretty good all things considered. It’s been a pretty good writing year. I didn’t have a new book out […]
Christmas is just around the corner and it’s a time for giving, but there are some things I don’t want—bad reviews to be exact. I was thinking about reviews the other day. Well, not exactly thinking, more like obsessing. Despite my rough, […]
I had another brush with Hollywood with a possible screen adaptation of my work. A small production company wanted to adapt one of my short stories into a TV pilot. After a few months of back and forth, the deal is effectively […]