I’m writing this from the Marriott Hotel high atop a hill on Tech Center Drive in Colorado Springs. The hotel is grand and the view is pretty spectacular, but the wind is blowing like a son-of-a-gun and it’s chilly to boot. Don and I walked around the hotel to admire the scenery after we got [...]

Since last I posted, I did a talk and signing at Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale on Oct 8 and a talk and signing last night at Pyle Adult Center in Tempe. The Poisoned Pen event was my first since The Drop Edge of Yonder came out a few weeks ago, if you don’t count [...]

I got a call last night from my friend Nan, the book production manager at Poisoned Pen Press, telling me that The Old Buzzard Had It Coming won the Arizona Book Award for Best Mystery! I almost swallowed my teeth. First of all, the book is two years old, and second, I didn’t even know [...]

This is just a quick post to say that I made it back from the Great Frozen North yesterday morning. We left Anchorage at one o’clock in the morning (Yes, you read that right) and arrived back in Phoenix at 9:15 in the morning. A normal person would have slept on the plane, but I [...]