I just returned from yet another event, the High Desert Crimes Book Fair in Sierra Vista, Arizona. The Sierra Vista Sisters in Crime chapter invited 55 authors to sit on panels and to sell their books on March 25. It was a pretty good event. I met a number of authors from all over the [...]

I just returned from a quick trip back to Oklahoma to attend the annual Oklahoma Book Awards ceremony, which was held on March 11 in Oklahoma City. As you know, Dear Reader, The Old Buzzard Had It Coming was named one of the finalists for the Fiction Award this year. The banquet was a glittery [...]

I receive a lot of comments from readers who like the recipes that I put at the end of The Old Buzzard Had It Coming. When I decided to put the recipes in, I did so not necessarily to preserve some of the old ways of cooking, though that was certainly on my mind. I [...]