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A Year of Living Courageously in the Rearview Mirror
Well, friends, 2012 has assumed its place in history and with it, my Year of Living Courageously experiment. As I embark on 2013, I want to reflect for a moment on what I learned from my efforts last...
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SWIFT RUN Nominated for 2013 Lefty for Best Humorous Mystery
Left Coast Crime today announced its 2013 award nominations, including a Lefty nod for SWIFT RUN for best humorous mystery. The complete list of nominees for The Lefty and for Left Coast Crimes’ other...
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Resolved: No More Shopping
I didn’t make a big deal of it with anyone, not even my family, but my New Year’s resolution was to give up shopping. “What brought on such a drastic and un-American resolution?” you may well ask. I...
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My Favorite Mystery Series: Cherry Ames, Nurse and Detective
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t love mysteries. I suspect I was a mystery fan back when I was spitting up strained apricots and wearing onesies. Would the Cat in the Hat get punished for wrecking...
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What I Wish I Knew About Life at 25
The Flairist, an online site targeting young, ambitious women, invited me and others to reflect on what I wish I knew when I was younger. Their angle: Life in your mid-twenties can be simultaneously...
View ArticleThe Homicide Hustle
Overview One of them has been eliminated … permanently. The traveling TV dance show, Ballroom with the B-Listers, is coming to Washington, D.C., and ballroom dancer Stacy Graysin is first in line to...
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The Year of Letting Go
I haven’t blogged much this year and I think that’s, in part, because I didn’t have a theme. I told myself I’d write about whatever took my fancy, but I never seemed to sit down and do it. Well, in...
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A Mania for Multi-tasking
The Joys of Multi-tasking I have long prided myself on being a multi-tasker. The ability to multi-task, to take on two or five tasks at once, helped me sail through college and kick-started my Air...
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April 25: Colorado Book Award Finalist Reading
SWIFT RUN has been chosen as a finalist for the 2013 Colorado Book Awards! Join me and 32 other Colorado Book Award finalists for a reading at the Denver Press Club, 1330 Glenarm Place, Denver, CO...
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Writing Blog Hop
Many thanks to the brilliant, funny and prolific Catriona McPherson for “tagging” me to participate in this blog hop. I was fascinated to read in her blog last Monday that our writing styles are...
View ArticleWrites of Passage
Details COMPASSION, CONNECTION, AND INSPIRATION… The path of a writing career can be rocky and twisty and full of dead ends. But it’s also well-traveled-and in Writes of Passage, fifty-eight mystery...
View ArticleOctober 19: Teaching “Plot” at MWA University
I’ll be teaching “plot” at Mystery Writers of America’s Mystery University in the Western Peachtree in Atlanta. Mystery University is a full-day, low-cost writing seminar designed to teach participants...
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November 8: “Home on the Range” at Crimebake, Boston
At Crimebake 2014, I’ll be moderating the “Home on the Range: When Setting Becomes Character” panel. This conference will be from November 7-9, near Boston, MA. Panelists are: Elisabeth Elo Rory Flynn...
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November 15: Bouchercon 2014 in Long Beach
At Bouchercon 2014 in Long Beach, California, I’ll be participating in two panels. Moderating “From Government Work to Solving Crimes: Sleuths from Government Agencies” Saturday, November 15, 2014, 3-4...
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Intentionality
Mid-year, I decided that my blogging topic was going to be “The Year of Letting Go.” Well, it looks like the only thing I actually let go of was blogging. It Wasn’t Intentional It just. . . happened....
View ArticleThe Readaholics and the Falcon Fiasco
Details A Book Club Mystery Amy-Faye Johnson’s beloved book club, the Readaholics, enjoys guessing whodunit in mysteries like The Maltese Falcon. But when a murder happens in their midst, they...
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Choosing a College Is Information Overload
My elder daughter is a high school senior mid-way through the process of applying to colleges. O. M. G. I thought I was a reasonably savvy mom, but the process and the cost of attendance have left me...
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Crime and PUNishment
Crime fiction comes in all sorts of flavors, and it can be harder to tell one sub-genre from another than a green apple Jelly Belly from a kiwi flavored one. Luckily, publishers are savvy enough to...
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Cell Phones and Teens
I have a seventeen-year-old daughter, as do many of you. Although I think she is beautiful, talented, intelligent, compassionate, and altogether wonderful, I am not besotted enough to think she is...
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Donna Summer Was Right
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” Epicurus My friend Hank recently passed along this quotation...
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