Several months ago, I began corresponding with fellow mystery novelist Denisa Nickell Hanania, whose debut novel, A Talent to Deceive, has just been published by Avalon Press. Denisa’s book is set in present-day Indianapolis, IN, and features five close friends, conservative wives and mothers who comprise a book club which meets regularly to discuss literature [...]

I’m writing again, trying to finish the new book. Everything else seems to be on hold right now, and I’m quite behind on the daily tasks of living. I do love it, though. This is what I had in mind when I wanted to become an author. Someone asked me if my husband minds my [...]

The laundry is done and the bills are paid up, so before I bury myself in trying to finish Book 4, I’ll finish the saga of my Colorado book tour. We left Monument on the morning of October 26, after my day of illness and evening of booksigning in Colorado Springs, and drove to Denver [...]

This post was supposed to be titled Santa Fe, New Mexico. My intent was to post an entry day before yesterday on the trip home from Colorado, but the business computer at the hotel in Santa Fe ate my draft, so my well-laid plans went completely awry. After my experiences with hotel guest computers, I [...]