CARLACarla Moss in an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Aging anchormen are like Santa Claus. The more pot-bellied and bald they get, the more revered. Anchorwomen, on the other hand, are pretty much like Kleenex: disposable and always replaceable with a newer, prettier box. *** “Welcome, everyone, to our annual Survivors Breakfast,” Allison Hoffman […]
This passage is ripped from the pages of Hasta la Vista, Lola!, the second Lola Cruz Mystery from St. Martin’s Minotaur. Enjoy! * * * Chapter 1 I can’t even begin to count the number of times my grandmother told me that she would die a happy woman if only I’d join the Order of […]
This is an excerpt from the first chapter of An Axe to Grind, the latest in the Rocky Bluff P.D. series which I write as F.M. Meredith. * * * Sergeant Abel Navarro fought to keep from gagging. It wasn’t only from the smell, though that was bad enough. “Somebody really did a number on […]
Murder Off the Booksby Evelyn David Prologue Friday Night The pop of a human head cracking against rock sounded surprisingly loud. As the man fell against the wall of the clock tower, the killer unscrewed the silencer from the gun, musing about the number of details involved in planning and executing a perfect murder. And […]
Towering Pines Volume One: Room 509 is the first novel in the Towering Pines series. This young adult paranormal mystery follows the adventures of Liam Rider and Lisbeth Harrington, two teen heroes with their own special abilities. Lisbeth Harrington is unlike any fifteen year-old you’ve ever met. What is written below is a partial transcript […]
A few years ago, I never thought I’d be part of the e-book revolution. I was so focused on my print books and publishing the traditional way, that it never occurred to me to go straight to e-book. But then I wrote several romantic suspense novels that I thought were awesome. My agent thought they […]
When I tell you how old she is today you’re going to realize she’s older than all of you youngsters who post regularly or guest post–and possibly even read this post. My first baby girl is 58 today! I can’t believe it. It was only a short time ago that I was that age. Or […]
I’m married to a Kamikaze Tourist. Let me be very clear. He’s a wonderful man. There is none better. In fact, we just celebrated a milestone anniversary, in honor of which we took a 10-day vacation. But traveling with my husband is exhausting and I always need a vacation from my vacation. How could two […]
Inspiration hits at funny times. It’s never planned and for me it’s often dangerous. I find it while I’m driving. Always one to find a shorter route to work, I Google Mapped an old country-looking road polluted with Pittsburgh’s legendary potholes, which shortened my daily commute by a total of fifteen minutes. I was driving […]
by Bethany Maines When I started writing professionally it was with the understanding that I was, as my high school English teacher once wrote on a short story, “not very creative.” And ok, later I figured out that said teacher had gone to junior high with my mother and probably hated me (What did you […]