Win a free large-print PROBABLE CLAWS

Hi folks,I have a few more large-print Probable Clawses than I need, so I’d love to give one to a deserving reader! It’s the same, full text as the regular hardcover – only in very large type and bound in paperback.I’d love to give this to someone...

Upcoming writers’ conference

OK, folks, I dropped the ball on blogging about the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (zydeco/brass band/soul/blues fun in the sun), the Ponderosa Stomp (roots rockers refound), and Malice Domestic (readers/writers 24/7). But I am really going to try to blog...

What do you think of blog tours?

Hi folks!The new Independent Mystery Booksellers website now has a blog for authors, readers, publishers, and bookstores to share thoughts and opinions – and today I have guest blogged about guest blogging! What do you think? Please drop by and let us know....

She likes it!!

My agent likes it! “Grey Matters,” that is, the second Dulcie Schwartz mystery! Of course, she has a bunch of changes she wants me to make – catches I’m grateful for (did I always describe this one character as “wan”? Yup, I guess I did....

Rolling on the river

Got to review Tim Gautreaux’s The Missing for the Phoenix. Really enjoyed it. Can verify that it is dead-on about life on riverboats, too, in a way. While we were in New Orleans, we took a ride down the Mississippi on the Steamboat Natchez (last of the...