Got my annual royalty check today. Sigh. I did not officially have a book come out in 2008. The Sky Took Him was officially published in January of 2009, but it was actually available for purchase in December of 2008, so I did make a little bit of money on it. And I do mean [...]

I had a marvelous time at Velma Teague Library in Glendale, AZ, yesterday. Lesa Holstein, Library manager and contributing book reviewer for Library Journal, Mystery News, and various web review sites, has written an amazing summary of the visit, which I am directing all you readers to go look at forthwith (April 23). Once you [...]

I’m not out and about very much, these days, but I do have an actual author event coming up at 2:00 p.m. this Wednesday, April 22, at the Velma Teague Branch Library in Glendale, Arizona. (see the Events Page for the address) This is my last gig for a while, because I stopped making future [...]

Tomorrow, April 17, I’ll be driving myself up to Scottsdale to have brunch with my friends Judy Starbuck and Hannah Dennison, after which Hannah will be speaking at Poisoned Pen Bookstore about her new book, Scoop. Scoop is the sequel to Hannah’s first book, A Vickie Hill Exclusive, which came out last year. This is [...]

When my mother was beset with continual annoyances, she said she was being “nibbled to death by ducks”. I’m having that feeling right now. We’re still waiting for something to happen with Don’s stones. Thus far, he still feels just dandy. In fact, he’s more energetic and moving around the house and yard more than [...]

I took Don to the hospital at 9:30 this morning for a second attempt at breaking up one of his embedded kidney stones with sound waves. The procedure was scheduled for 11:30m and it took most of the 2 hours to get him ready. We signed the admitting papers, then he had x-rays. In pre-op [...]