Images In A Rearview Mirror – A Retrospective for the Holiday Season
I wrote this a few years ago, but never got around to posting it. Sometimes it takes time for fresh wounds to heal, to gain new perspective on fading scars. [...]
What the Hell is a Tarantula Hawk?
A Big Bad Black Bitch – Tarantula Hawk: The largest of the wasps, bluish-black with Halloween orange wings. The female wasp's stinger is typically 1/3 of an inch long and next [...]
Today Is Tomorrow Yesterday
Here I am. There you are. The distance between, self-imposed. How will we ever come to know one another? How about I show you a picture? Then maybe you’ll [...]
Cut-Throat Syndrome – Let Slip the Dogs of War
The Spoils of War – In Editing Hell for the past several weeks, I’m roughly three-quarters of the way through the first full edit, constantly reminding myself it WILL [...]
Five Tips (Minus 4) for Would-be Bestselling Writers
Writing Fiction – Looked simple enough. Write a mystery novel. Hire an agent. Get published. Find a writer’s retreat in the woods or by the sea, and do nothing [...]
Cut-Throat Syndrome – An Excerpt
In the Works – Cut-Throat Syndrome, the fourth book in the Lance Underphal Mystery series, turns international thriller. Since its conception, its cross-genre premise morphed into a very different [...]
5 Tips on How to Avoid Bad Books –
Busted – Okay, I confess . . . I did it . . . I bought bad books. Worse, as professional writer I know better. No Bad Books, or [...]