Progress on the new mysteryI am on the second half of the second-to-last chapter of my latest mystery, which means I may well finish it tomorrow, or if not, then Monday. That's always a lot of fun. It's at about 106,000 words now, which is a tad long...

Welcome, new folks!Hi, there, and welcome! About fifty of you joined the list here from a mystery/thriller promotion event in which Got Trouble was featured. I hope you enjoyed that story of a blue-collar mom tangling with the law and finding her way...

Welcome, new folks!Hi, there. If you've joined the mailing list recently, I want to make sure you get your free Frosthelm book, Traitors Unseen. If you haven't gotten it, you can get it free here (the site will ask you to sign up for t...

Welcome, new folks!Hi, there. If you've joined the mailing list recently, I want to make sure you get your free Frosthelm book, Traitors Unseen. If you haven't gotten it, you can get it free here (the site will ask you to sign up for t...

I hope you had a safe and fun end to 2024. In this edition of my newsletter, I have a brief report on how 2024 went for me as a writer, what I'm working on now, and what you're likely to see from me in 2025.My 2024 I had a pretty great 2024 with my w...

Progress on the new mysteryI've made some great progress on my new mystery novel. I'm probably 60% of the way through, writing every day, and I'm just launched on what I'm thinking of as the second act. My main character, Amy Galanis, is a public lib...

Welcome, new folks!Hi, there. If you've joined the mailing list recently, I want to make sure you get your free Frosthelm book, Traitors Unseen. If you haven't gotten it, you can get it free here (the site will ask you to sign up for t...

The Woeling Lass will be freeWell, she'll still be captured in a tragic tale of betrayal and loss, but the book will be free. The Woeling Lass is one of my Inquisitors' Guild books, the fourth one I wrote, although all of them can be read in any orde...

Welcome, new folks!Hi, there. If you've joined the mailing list recently, I want to make sure you get your free Frosthelm book, Traitors Unseen. If you haven't gotten it, you can get it free here (the site will ask you to sign up for t...

A book club!I had an author first just today. I was an invited guest author for a book club in St. James, NC, a town near the coast. I got to enjoy a killer Caesar salad with a group of readers who'd just read What Grows From the Dead. We had a wide-...