On Saturday, July 28, I spoke at the Phoenix-area Sisters in Crime annual writer’s conference, Write Now. It went very well. The audience was very responsive and I only forgot what I was saying once. I don’t know why I think that I must memorize my talks. Several of the other speakers used notes and [...]

Last week I was invited to become a regular contributor to Type M 4 Murder, which is an authors’ blog that was started by fellow Poisoned Pen Press author Vicki Delany. Each entry is by a different author every day, in which we talk about our work and our writing lives. It’s really quite fascinating. [...]

Just to update you, Dear Reader, it never reached 113 as we feared on June 20. It only got to 111, so we dodged that bullet. The only problem is that it’s been 111 ever since. In fact, it’s been 112 a couple of times. It’s 112 right now. The forecast for July 4 is [...]