Here's another 100-word piece I wrote to a "Friday Fictioneers" prompt photo: “Your Mama’s a gypsy.  You can’t tie ’em down.”  “Why’d she take our car and not say goodbye?” Daddy smiled and then refused to talk about it anymore. “Just you promise me,”  he said, pointing a finger at me.  “You won’t leave like…Read more Lost In the Woods

I enjoy Alyssa Maxwell's "Gilded Newport" series so I entered a drawing in her newsletter. I won! A signed edition of "A Murderous Marriage" (book 4 in her 'Lady and Lady's Maid' series), plus a beautiful teacup and saucer with some beautiful English Breakfast tea to go with it! Time to stoke up the pellet…Read more Sometimes you just want to read a good book, not write one.

Last weekend I attended the 2018 New England Crimebake.  I had not been before and wasn't sure what to expect.  But if you are a crime novel writer or reader, this is a place to celebrity-watch and get fired up over all the great new books coming out.  This year's Guest of Honor was Walter…Read more An Ode to Walter Mosley

Sunlit Story Time https://sunlitstorytime.com/  has chosen my short story for their Veterans Day podcast, November 11, 2018.  As the mother of a veteran of Desert Storm and a retired Green Beret Army Special Forces, as well as the daughter of a WWII vet, this is my tribute:  

I subscribe to the newsletter of Cindy Brown, author of the Ivy Meadows mysteries.  In a recent edition, she talked about her love for the movie "The Sound of Music" and invited her readers to tell her about their favorite things.  Well, that got me going, and here's my rendition.  I dare you to read…Read more Hey, it’s Halloween!

“It’s just an ebook,”  she said with sweet self-deprecation and some regret. Of course, the writer was apologizing for having gone through an indie publisher online, rather than spending years working through agents, a Big Five New York publisher and the long process of editing, rewriting to the editor's wishes, then waiting for design, typesetting,…Read more Just an ebook

Well, I'm still working on the fourth book of the Del Sueno series. Meanwhile I've signed up to help at Bookstock, the Woodstock book fair. Always ready to support other writers! Come by if you can! http://bookstockvt.org/

Anyone under the age of twenty may not know what I'm referring to. (To what I am referring? Go away, Mrs. McCartney and your eighth-grade blackboard.) Even people born as late as 1985 may have developed that permanent callus that their boomer parents wore like a frat pin, that tough little malformation that grew on…Read more How’s your writer’s bump?

Yesterday I finished a book and was astounded.  Not by the quality of the writing, which was excellent.  Nor by the detail in the characters and the background, which was extremely enjoyable because I grew up in that setting and recognized the people and the places they inhabited.  No, what astounded me was that the…Read more When is a mystery not a mystery?

They say change is good.  It wakes up the brain, stimulates the imagination.  Forces you to see what your eyes tended to slide over because you’d seen it so many times before. So here I am, seeing green mountains instead of desert, rivers instead of dry washes, myriad birdsong instead of a single far-up cry…Read more Starting over again, again