See you in Reno!

Pleased as punch to announce I’ll be on a panel at Left Coast Crime: “My Kind of Town (Rural & Suburban Crime)” Sunday at 10:15, with David Hagerty, Shannon Baker, James Haymon, Carrie Smith, and Heather Young. Seeing as how I’m coming off...

Catch up: the TBR pile and beyond

Things I’ve meant to blog about but haven’t: For starters, the great books I got from authors I met at the Pulpwood Queens Girlfriend weekend: “One Good Mama Bone,” by Bren McClain. “Wickwythe Hall,” by Judithe Little, and...

Cover reveal: FEAR ON FOUR PAWS

Presenting FEAR ON FOUR PAWS, the seventh Pru Marlowe pet noir, to be published by Poisoned Pen Press in Aug., 2018 There’s trouble brewing in the woods of Beauville, and the only witness isn’t talking. When Pru Marlowe is called to a forest clearing to help with an...

Authors on snacks

Just for fun… the wonderful online January Magazine has been asking authors what we snack on when deadline pressure hits. I wish I could have said “carrot sticks and mint tea,” but no such luck….

Books! Books! Books!

The email from my editor arrived just as I was ironing out the  last little kinks in the climactic scene, so I waited before I opened it. When I did, I was overjoyed – after various back-and-forth revisions and edits, FEAR ON FOUR PAWS has been accepted by Poisoned...

Revising is like…

Sometimes, I think revising is like grabbing a snake by the head and working your way down to the tail all the while hoping to hold the snake in place. Only, while it is lashing furiously, you’re also trying to make changes to the tail because of what you find...