I love Dancing with the Stars. Every Monday night if I’m not sitting in front of my TV, my faithful DVR is recording away every beat of every samba, rumba, quickstep or waltz that’s taking place. I love the costumes, the music, the dancing, the so called “stars” and the professionals. Every season I quickly […]
The Stiletto Gang is delighted to welcome good friend Joe Wallace to our site. And no, we didn’t make him wear stilettos in order to guest with us today. I believe that retribution for an act of prejudice should be swift, unsparing, and impossible to ignore. Why do I believe this? Because that’s what it […]
There I am yakking away about my books at the Reading Club. Oh my, I wish there were more of them around, I had so much fun and I think they did too. My daughter-in-law was the designated driver and a good thing because the traffic was horrendous for our 3 1/2 hour drive. We […]
The egg in the Cypress tree was always a pain to retrieve. I use the word “pain” to keep this a g-rated blog. Even as early as seven years old I was already doing cost vs. benefit analysis in my head. Every Easter there was a dyed egg hidden in that tree’s knot hole. I […]
If memory serves, I met April Henry about ten years ago during Malice Domestic. I believe I was going up the hotel escalator and she was going down (or maybe it was the other way around?). Anyway, it was one of those, “Hi, aren’t you?” and “Yes, and aren’t you?” kind of things. She was writing her award-winning Claire Montrose mystery series then […]
I met Rebecca Rasmussen not long ago, when a mutual friend suggested we get together (thanks again, Melissa!). I love finding new authors in St. Louis, and I was thrilled for the introduction to Rebecca. She’s a multitasking wife and mother who also teaches creative writing at a local university. As if that’s not enough, […]
Do you remember where you were when Charles and Diana got married? I do. I was on Cape Cod with my good friend, Kathy, staying at a house her parents had rented. She and I, great friend all through high school, would be heading off to college in the coming weeks, she to Georgetown, me […]
Okay folks, I’m getting discouraged. I hate to say it since I was among the very first authors to embrace ebooks eons ago when no one really knew what that meant. Of course I’ve read all of Joe Konrath’s posts about e-publishing and promotion, and about the young woman who sold 1000s of her self-published […]
Hopping down the Seder Hall Hippity-Hoppity Pesach’s on its way. (Song Credit (and there are more verses) to Dr. Melvin Borden, family physician extraordinaire, and an even more extraordinary father, father-in-law, and the original Pop-Pop) It’s coming down to the wire. Next Monday, April 18, at 6 pm, we will be sitting down for the first […]
My March release, Deadly Currents, is the first book in my new Rocky Mountain Outdoor Adventures mystery series starring whitewater river ranger Mandy Tanner. The book has already received stellar reviews from the big four review publications, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, on-line reviewers and, most importantly, from readers who live and work in its real […]