By Kathryn Lane
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| Peter Pan teaching his friends to FLY! |
Peter Pan is a child who never
grows up because he has an ultimate belief in make-believe. Make-believe is
similar to imagination.
For those who do grow up, imagination provides
the ability to be creative.
The marvelous human mind can combine
imagination with the disciplines of mathematics, physics, and countless other subjects,
thus developing new technologies. Imagination combined with drawing, color
theory, and perspective can express incomparable beauty through art and
sculpture. Imagination and the study of language and writing can create masterpieces
of literature.
Yet it all starts as a belief that the
impossible is possible.
The recent flights to the edge of space, first
by Branson and quickly followed by Bezos, made me reflect on the art of flying.
The Wright Brothers invented the first viable flying machine in 1903, after
years of research and experiments.
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| Wright Brothers’ Plane |
The Kitty
Hawk “flight” occurred a mere 118 years ago. In that short time span, the art
of flight has advanced so much that countless astronauts have flown to space,
orbited the earth in their spacecraft, worked at the international space
station, and a select group have walked on the moon.
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| Model of Leonardo Da Vinci Flying Machine |
The idea of man-powered flying
captured the imagination of Leonardo DaVinci, artist and sculptor, four hundred
years before the Wright Brothers success. The modern helicopter is similar to
Leonardo’s Ornithopter design from the 1480s.
Branson and Bezos flew to the edge of
space. Each man had an ultimate belief in his flying adventure. Each one has a
dream of creating space tourism, albeit rich tourists, to experience a split-second
glimpse at our earth from a spot close to the Karman line, the imaginary
boundary that separates earth’s atmosphere from
the edge of space.
Both men have been seriously
criticized for their expensive adventures, yet they must have felt like Peter
Pan. They could FLY!
In another decade or so, spacecraft
will probably be taking people beyond the Karman line for a brief spin into
outer space and maybe even a suborbital flight around earth. Maybe it will
become a real tourist boom and prices will be affordable to more people.
As a writer, I don’t doubt stories and novels of various
genres will involve more short trips into space. Space travel will no longer be
exclusive to science fiction.
As for my own travel plans, planet earth still offers a lot
of enticing places to visit.
If someone offered you a ticket on the next trip to the
Karman line, would you take it?
***
Kathryn’s mysteries – The Nikki
Garcia Thriller series:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B08C7V2675/ref=dp_st_1942428944
Kathryn’s short story collection – Backyard
Volcano and Other Mysteries of the Heart
https://www.amazon.com/Backyard-Volcano-Other-Mysteries-Heart/dp/1943306044
All available on Amazon.
Kathryn Lane started out as a starving
artist. To earn a living, she became a certified public accountant and embarked
on a career in international finance with a major multinational corporation.
After two decades, she left the corporate world to plunge into writing mystery
and suspense thrillers. In her stories, Kathryn draws deeply from her Mexican background as well as her travels
in over ninety countries.
https://www.kathryn-lane.com
https://www.facebook.com/kathrynlanewriter/
Photo Credits:Peter Pan Flight by HarshLight is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Wright Brothers’ Plane in the Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina by Jared
Enos is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Da Vinci flying machine by mahjqa is licensed under CC
BY-NC-SA 2.0
Book Covers – Bobbye Marrs
Cover Reveal–Every Last Secret
/in Uncategorized/by Linda Rodriguezby Linda Rodriguez
I’m excited to announce that on Tuesday, September 7th, the first of my Skeet Bannion mystery novels, Every Last Secret, will be re-released in ebook and trade paper format in a new edition with new covers. This is a thrill, especially, because readers have asked for a paperback version of these books for a long time, and my former publisher would not bring them out in that format. All three of my Skeet Bannion mysteries will be released with new covers in these new formats as a prelude to the launch at the end of the year of the 4th Skeet Bannion mystery, Every Family Doubt.
Linda Rodriguez’s 12th book is The Fish That Got Away: The Sixth Guppy Anthology. Her 11th book was Fishy Business: The Fifth Guppy Anthology (edited). Dark Sister: Poems was her 10th book and a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award. Plotting the Character-Driven Novel, based on her popular workshop, and The World Is One Place: Native American Poets Visit the Middle East, an anthology she co-edited, were published in 2017. Every Family Doubt, her fourth mystery featuring Cherokee detective, Skeet Bannion, and Revising the Character-Driven Novel will be published in 2021. Her three earlier Skeet novels—Every Hidden Fear, Every Broken Trust, Every Last Secret—and earlier books of poetry—Skin Hunger and Heart’s Migration—have received critical recognition and awards, such as St. Martin’s Press/Malice Domestic Best First Novel, International Latino Book Award, Latina Book Club Best Book of 2014, Midwest Voices & Visions, Elvira Cordero Cisneros Award, Thorpe Menn Award, and Ragdale and Macondo fellowships. Her short story, “The Good Neighbor,” published in Kansas City Noir, has been optioned for film.
Rodriguez is past chair of the AWP Indigenous Writer’s Caucus, past president of Border Crimes chapter of Sisters in Crime, founding board member of Latino Writers Collective and The Writers Place, and a member of International Thriller Writers, Native Writers Circle of the Americas, Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers, and Kansas City Cherokee Community. Learn more about her at http://lindarodriguezwrites.blogspot.com
Summer Is Perfect for Shorts!
/in Uncategorized/by The Stiletto Gangby Sparkle Abbey
Here in the Midwest we’re finally seeing some regular summer weather but most of this summer has been hot, hot hot!
So no matter what your style vibe is, it’s truly been the perfect weather for shorts.
We’re probably apt to flash a little less leg in our choices.
Mostly because after a year of going nowhere and working inside, we not only don’t have any tan lines – we don’t have any tans at all.
Caro and Mel, the heroines in our Pampered Pets mystery series would undoubtedly be much more daring And, after all, they do live in Laguna Beach.
How about you? Do you wear shorts?
And by the way, since we’re talking short, summer is also the perfect time for short reads. We’ve been reading some of the award nominated shorts stories. Something quick for the deck or the beach or even for a road trip. So, we’re loving great novellas and short stories! And we’ve also just released our very first short – PROJECT DOGWAY.
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Clicking Our Heels: Muddle in the Middle or at the Begining or the End?
/in Clicking Our Heels/by Stiletto GangClicking Our Heels: Muddle in the Middle or at the
Beginning or the End?
Today, the Stiletto Gang
examines what each finds the hardest part of writing – beginnings, middles or
ends?
Saralyn Richard – Whatever I’m currently writing
(beginnings and endings are harder than middles).
Lois Winston – I spend quite a bit of time deciding on an
opening sentence that will hook the reader.
Kathleen Kaska – The hardest part of writing fiction comes
between the middle and the end. This is where I have to pull everything
together. Being a punster makes it difficult, but outlining doesn’t work for
me.
Linda Rodriguez – Middles! Always middles – when I often
despair that I’ve forgotten how to write.
Debra H. Goldstein – Endings because I have to remember not
to rush to tie things up and in a series give a taste of the future.
Shari Randall – Hands down beginnings are the toughest to
write. I love spinning different endings and middles happen organically, but a
beginning that entices the reader and sets the tone for the book is always a
challenge.
Gay Yellen – I usually don’t begin writing until I know how
the book starts and how it ends. The middle is the bugbear, because the mix of
plot details and suspense is so critical.
Kathryn Lane – Middles are the nemeses I struggle with to
make my writing as exciting as possible so the reader continues side by side
with the protagonist, solving life-threatening situations.
Dru Ann Love – The beginning as I don’t know what to write
without revealing spoilers.
Debra Sennefelder – The hardest part of writing for me
lately hasn’t been the process of writing. It has been dealing with my upended
routine and noise in the house during the day.
T.K. Thorne – I tend to write from beginning to end. If I
have a concept of the ending, then the middle is hard, if I don’t, the end can
be challenging, because everything has to come together in a surprising but
satisfying way. I love beginnings, lol!
Anita Carter – Definitely beginnings. When I first start a new
story, the possibilities of where the story can go are endless. Sometimes I’ll
rewrite the first 50 pages three or four times until I feel like I’m taking the
story in the right direction. It can be exhausting.
Mary Lee Ashford – Oh, I love beginnings and endings. But
middles? They are hard. I think the good news is that in the middle there are
so many choices and then the bad news is that there are so many choices. I do
quite a bit of plotting before I begin writing but I find that once I’ve
written to the middle of the book, there’s often a need to reassess what I
originally had planned. It provides an opportunity to ask if there is a better
choice now that the story has grown. So middles are hard, but also great fun.
Bethany Maines – Ends! I can churn out a great first act at
the drop of a hat, but oh my, those endings. Managing to get all the pieces of
the puzzle to line up and come to a satisfactory conclusion is the toughest
part for me.
Robin Hillyer-Miles – Editing is the most difficult and
most important for me.
I can FLY!
/in Uncategorized/by Kathryn LaneBy Kathryn Lane
Peter Pan is a child who never
grows up because he has an ultimate belief in make-believe. Make-believe is
similar to imagination.
For those who do grow up, imagination provides
the ability to be creative.
The marvelous human mind can combine
imagination with the disciplines of mathematics, physics, and countless other subjects,
thus developing new technologies. Imagination combined with drawing, color
theory, and perspective can express incomparable beauty through art and
sculpture. Imagination and the study of language and writing can create masterpieces
of literature.
Yet it all starts as a belief that the
impossible is possible.
The recent flights to the edge of space, first
by Branson and quickly followed by Bezos, made me reflect on the art of flying.
The Wright Brothers invented the first viable flying machine in 1903, after
years of research and experiments.
The Kitty
Hawk “flight” occurred a mere 118 years ago. In that short time span, the art
of flight has advanced so much that countless astronauts have flown to space,
orbited the earth in their spacecraft, worked at the international space
station, and a select group have walked on the moon.
The idea of man-powered flying
captured the imagination of Leonardo DaVinci, artist and sculptor, four hundred
years before the Wright Brothers success. The modern helicopter is similar to
Leonardo’s Ornithopter design from the 1480s.
Branson and Bezos flew to the edge of
space. Each man had an ultimate belief in his flying adventure. Each one has a
dream of creating space tourism, albeit rich tourists, to experience a split-second
glimpse at our earth from a spot close to the Karman line, the imaginary
boundary that separates earth’s atmosphere from
the edge of space.
Both men have been seriously
criticized for their expensive adventures, yet they must have felt like Peter
Pan. They could FLY!
In another decade or so, spacecraft
will probably be taking people beyond the Karman line for a brief spin into
outer space and maybe even a suborbital flight around earth. Maybe it will
become a real tourist boom and prices will be affordable to more people.
As a writer, I don’t doubt stories and novels of various
genres will involve more short trips into space. Space travel will no longer be
exclusive to science fiction.
As for my own travel plans, planet earth still offers a lot
of enticing places to visit.
If someone offered you a ticket on the next trip to the
Karman line, would you take it?
***
Kathryn’s mysteries – The Nikki
Garcia Thriller series:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B08C7V2675/ref=dp_st_1942428944
Kathryn’s short story collection – Backyard
Volcano and Other Mysteries of the Heart
https://www.amazon.com/Backyard-Volcano-Other-Mysteries-Heart/dp/1943306044
All available on Amazon.
Kathryn Lane started out as a starving
artist. To earn a living, she became a certified public accountant and embarked
on a career in international finance with a major multinational corporation.
After two decades, she left the corporate world to plunge into writing mystery
and suspense thrillers. In her stories, Kathryn draws deeply from her Mexican background as well as her travels
in over ninety countries.
https://www.kathryn-lane.com
https://www.facebook.com/kathrynlanewriter/
Photo Credits:Peter Pan Flight by HarshLight is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Wright Brothers’ Plane in the Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina by Jared
Enos is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Da Vinci flying machine by mahjqa is licensed under CC
BY-NC-SA 2.0
Book Covers – Bobbye Marrs
An Author and Her Notebooks
/in Uncategorized/by Debra Sennefelderby Debra Sennefelder
Happy August!
I cannot tell you how thrilled I am that August has finally arrived. July felt like the longest month ever, yet it also felt like the fastest month ever. Some days I felt l blinked, and three days passed while other days seemed to stretch into twenty-seven hours. Go figure.
A new month means a blank slate. No pressing deadlines to deal with, and my favorite commercials start airing. Can you guess? Back-to-school commercials! I just them. Commercials about school supplies – notebooks, pens, binders, highlighters, and bags!
As a kid, back-to-school shopping was my favorite activity. A new school bag, a new lunch box, a bunch of new clothes and new notebooks! I just love a good notebook. Show of hands who’s with me.
A couple of weeks ago, I popped into Barnes & Noble over at Union Square in NYC for a bit of browsing. Of course, I had expectations that I’d leave with a haul of books (it was that kind of day where all I wanted was coffee and books). So, imagine my surprise when I left with only one item, and it was a notebook with one inspiring word on the cover – Write.
The inspiration word, size, thickness, and narrow lines had me heading to the checkout with the notebook in hand.
When I purchased the notebook, I didn’t know what I’d used it for, but after a couple of days, I finally decided which project I wanted to start brainstorming in the notebook. Writers use notebooks for brainstorming, plot ideas, characters, backstory, or plot ideas. I’ve used notebooks for all those things, plus I’ve used them for courses I’ve taken. Currently, I’m taking an online marketing course and have a section in my large daisy-covered notebook dedicated to the class and the actions I’ll be taking in the fall. I have another notebook for goal setting. Plus, one that contains my running to-do list. There’s a red one I use as a gratitude and scripting journal. A pink one has many story ideas and backstory for a series that I’d like to write one day. While another one is dedicated to a course on author business and estate planning.
My stack of notebooks makes me a very happy author. Now, are you crazy about notebooks too? I’d love to know.
P.S. – The next Food Blogger Mystery is available for pre-order and will release on 9/28/21. To celebrate the upcoming release, I’m hosting a giveaway.
Pre-order THE CORPSE IN THE GAZEBO between nowand Sept 27th and with your receipt, you will be entered into a giveaway for a Food Blogger apron and a $10 gift card to either Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Two winners (shipping to US addresses only & one winner per household) will be randomly selected.
Debra Sennefelder is the
author of the Food Blogger Mystery series and the Resale Boutique Mystery series.
She lives and writes in Connecticut. When she’s not writing, she enjoys baking,
exercising and taking long walks with her Shih-Tzu, Connie. You can keep in touch
with Debra through her website, on Facebook and Instagram.
Pumping My Own Gas and Other Firsts
/in Uncategorized/by Lois WinstonBy Lois Winston
It’s official. This Jersey Girl is no longer a Jersey Girl. I have the Tennessee driver’s license and license plate to prove it. And it’s a very strange feeling. For one thing, I now have to pump my own gas, something I could previously only do when driving out-of-state. I think it’s been about ten years since I last used a gas pump. New Jersey has a weird law that doesn’t allow ordinary citizens to fill their own gas tanks. Even if you happen to be the person who invented the modern gas pump, you have to leave the filling to the attendant. Oregon is the only other state that doesn’t allow you to pump your own gas. What century are we living in?
It’s been so long since I pumped my own gas that on the drive down to Tennessee, I first grabbed the diesel nozzle. Luckily, they’re designed in such a way that you can’t accidentally fill your tank with diesel if you don’t drive a diesel automobile, but it took me a minute or two to figure out why I couldn’t get the nozzle into the gas tank. Then I managed to dribble gasoline on my hand and shoe. This experience will definitely go into a book at some point. It’s the author’s way of turning lemons into lemonade.
I’m experiencing many more firsts with this move. Our new home is the newest house we’ve ever owned, only seventeen years old. Prior to this, our newest house was built in 1939. The oldest was built in 1893. And the first home we ever bought was a Sears house kit. (No, we didn’t buy the kit from Sears. I’m not that old!)
This is the first house I’ve ever lived in without a basement. Even as an apartment-dwelling city kid, we had a basement. But this is also the first house with an attached two-car garage. I think I’m going to like that, if I can navigate in and out without sideswiping either my husband’s car or the garage wall.
There are many things I’m going to miss about living in New Jersey—being so close to Manhattan theaters and museums, living less than an hour from the ocean, being able to walk to shopping, instead of having to jump in the car for every errand. And some really good friends.
However, I’m certainly not going to miss snowstorms and the power outages they generally entailed. I did suffer through a four-day outage a few summers ago while visiting family in Nashville, but it was nothing compared to the nine day-outage we endured during Superstorm Sandy and the freak early snowstorm that followed, or the countless blizzards and Nor’easters that have brought down power lines over the years.
If the power goes out in the summer, you can walk around the house in your underwear or a bathing suit and cook your meals outside on the grill. It’s far worse to wear seventeen layers of clothing indoors and have to shovel your way through three-foot high snow drifts to get to that grill in winter.
I’m also looking forward to making new friends and exploring my new state—once all the cartons are unpacked. I’m just not sure I’ll ever make the leap to saying, “Y’all.”
~*~
USA Today and Amazon bestselling and award-winning author Lois Winston writes mystery, romance, romantic suspense, chick lit, women’s fiction, children’s chapter books, and nonfiction under her own name and her Emma Carlyle pen name. Kirkus Reviews dubbed her critically acclaimed Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series, “North Jersey’s more mature answer to Stephanie Plum.” In addition, Lois is a former literary agent and an award-winning craft and needlework designer who often draws much of her source material for both her characters and plots from her experiences in the crafts industry.
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For the Love of Sidekicks!
/in Uncategorized/by The Stiletto GangBy Lynn McPherson
Top three qualities in a sidekick? Here’s my picks:
The name of the sidekick in my Izzy Walsh Mystery Series is Ava Russell. She has all of the above qualities and was my favorite character to write–especially the dialogue. Sassy is probably the best word to describe her. Ava is inspired by Jane Russell’s character in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Dorothy Shaw.
Lynn McPherson has worked for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, ran a small business, and taught English across the globe. She has travelled the world solo where her daring spirit has led her to jump out of airplanes, dive with sharks, and learn she would never master a surfboard. She now channels her lifelong love of adventure and history into her writing, where she is free to go anywhere, anytime. Her cozy series has three books out: The Girls’ Weekend Murder and The Girls Whispered Murder, and The Girls Dressed For Murder.
ITW 2021 Thriller Short Story Award Goes To . . .
/in Uncategorized/by Paula Bensonby Paula Gail Benson
I remember meeting Alan Orloff at Malice
Domestic when his first novel, Diamonds for the Dead, was an Agatha
award finalist. Since that time, he has published nine additional novels and a
myriad of short stories that have appeared in Needle: A Magazine of
Noir, Shotgun Honey Presents: Locked & Loaded, Jewish Noir, Alfred
Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Mystery Weekly, Windward: Best New England Crime
Stories 2016, Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning, Noir at the Salad Bar, 50
Shades of Cabernet, Chesapeake Crimes: Fur, Feathers, and Felonies, Snowbound:
Best New England Crime Stories 2017, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, The Night of
the Flood, and Mystery Most Geographical.
Recently, Alan’s story, “Rent Due” (in Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir)
received the 2021 International Thriller Writers’ Thriller Award for Best Short
Story.
This follows the success of his novel Pray for the Innocent (Kindle Press)
which received the 2019 Thriller for Best E-Book Original.
“Rule Number One” (originally published
in Snowbound, from Level Best Books) was selected for the 2018
edition of The Best American Mystery
Stories anthology, edited by Louise Penny.
“Happy Birthday” (published on Shotgun
Honey) was a 2018
Derringer Award Finalist in the Flash Fiction category (an
award given by the members of the Short Mystery Fiction Society).
“Dying in Dokesville” (published in Mystery Most Geographical) won the 2019
Derringer Award in the Short Story category.
Currently, his novel I Know Where You Sleep (Down & Out Books) is
a 2021 Shamus Award
Finalist in the Best First P.I. Novel category.
Congratulations, Alan! May your writing
continue to thrive!
Dickens, Aliens, and Me
/in Uncategorized/by TK ThorneMy first ambition was to be an astronaut. My dream was to make first contact with aliens who could take me on a private tour of the galaxy. I
would check out the window every night to see if a UFO had landed in my back
yard. (Surely, they could sense that I was waiting for them. . . ! ) For various
reasons, it never did, and I didn’t get a chance to go looking for them, but
that has now changed.
You might know that most of Charles Dickens’ novels were
published in monthly or weekly installments. He pioneered the serial format of
narrative fiction, which became the dominant mode during the Victorian period for
novel publication and still exists in some magazine formats.
The advent of print-on-demand technology in the 1960s turned
the publishing industry on its head. It spawned the giant, Amazon, but it also wrested
the ability to publish out of the hands of a few big publishing companies and into
the hands of indie (independent) presses or even the authors themselves. This
has had positive and negative side effects (a story for another day).
A couple of weeks ago, Amazon launched a new platform using
serialization called “Kindle Vella.” The author can publish an episode
(chapter) at a time and leave comments for the reader. Readers can give a heads up for the chapters
they like. In that sense, technology is bringing
the readers and authors closer together.
Also, it puts more power in the readers’ hands. Instead of taking a chance on an entire book
that you might end up hating or bored with, you can read at least three episodes
for free. (As a special Amazon is now giving you 200 free tokens, which means
you can really read about 15 chapters first.) Then you purchase tokens (at a reasonable
price; the total book is about what a new release e-book would be) to “spend”
on chapter-episodes of books that you really like. You start at Amazon.com and
can read it there or (after you read your first episodes and purchase tokens)
it will also be available to download onto Apple devices (Kindle Reader app or Kindle device)
or you can keep reading right on Amazon.com.
Back to meeting aliens and venturing into a new space . . .
literally.
Motes (short for Mozart) is an extraordinary young girl born
on Mars. When a boy is found dead in her dorm room, the private Martian school
for gifted students expels her. Motes has nowhere to go besides the remote
planet of Veld where her estranged father is studying mmerl, the native
sentient species, some of whom are mysteriously disappearing.
This is a story close to my heart. I rewrote it during the Covid
pandemic, and I’m really excited to be able to share it directly with readers
this way!
You can check out SNOWDANCERS (the entire novel is uploaded)
at “Kindle Vella” on Amazon.com at https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B096R3YF29
Hope you enjoy Mote’s amazing adventure!
T.K. is a retired police captain who writes Books, which, like this blog, go wherever her interest and imagination take her. More at TKThorne.com
Titles that Scream Read Me By Juliana Aragon Fatula
/in Author Life/by Juliana Aragon FatulaDear Reader,
What’s in a title? What’s in a name? Ask yourself what’s the title of the last book you read and the name of the author. I last read a series of books by the author Janet Evanovich. I had heard the author’s name before, but had never read any of her work. I decided to give her a try and I am now a huge fan. I read six of her books in one week. She kept me from being sad during a rough patch in my month. I’m glad I found Janet because she made me realize something about my own writing style.
I’ve struggled with picking a specific genre for my mystery writing but I settled on love story. Sure there are private investigators, suspects, a homicide vicim, police detectives, coroner, and crime scene, but at the heart of the story are lovers. Murder and mayhem and romance and sex scenes, oh my. Janet led me to understand that my characters are in love in the middle of a brutal attack of the Atlanta Butcher. Dun dun dun.
So the title of my love story has to reflect both the crime and the hook, the Colorado Sisters Private Investigators and the Atlanta Butcher Homicide. The Colorado Sisters and the Atlanta Butcher. A friend suggested the title should be The Atlanta Butcher, but I see this becoming a series of mysteries: The Colorado Sisters and the Denver Diabolical Death, The Colorado Sisters and the Chicago Serial Killer, The Colorado Sisters and the Pueblo Reservoir Drowning, The Colorado Sisters and the Yellowstone Camp Kidnapping. So as you can clearly see, the Colorado Sisters have lots of crimes to solve and I should get busy writing these mystery love stories.
Watch this blog for future reveals and follow me on facebook to discover who killed Reggie Hartless and who is the Atlanta Butcher. The Colorado Sisters, L.A. and Eva Mondragon private investigators solve murders, missing persons, and cheating spouses and they travel the lower 48 states in the Love Shack, the silver airstream office on wheels complete with bullet proof windows, security audio and video system, password encrypted locks, and satellite telecommunications.
Also, someone asked why so many of my characters in my story are gay, lesbian, transgender, or bisexual, I explained that many of my friends are LGBTQ and it feels true to me. It may not be your truth but it is my reality, so my characters reveal the world that I envision. The world where I live has people of all backgrounds and they lead diverse lives. So when you read my work and you ask yourself what kind of writer names a criminal defense attorney Shakespeare and gives him a crew cut Chingona girlfriend with a talent for hacking computers and undercover work that solves crimes.
And while we’re at it, how about the characters Smith and Wesson, the Border Collies that fall in love with the number one suspect, Tony McNally? Will they end up in puppy prison or will they help L.A. and Eva, the Colorado Sisters, solve the investigation?