The Good Daughter trailer This is a trailer for The Good Daughter: A Mafia story, the first book in my Vista Security Series. A dear friend made this for me, on her phone. ON HER PHONE! I can barely send messages on my phone, although I know people...

                Goals, it’s that time of year, isn’t it? Who has already abandoned their New Year’s Resolution? I’m getting on up there in years;  I learned not to make those a couple of decades ago. But this time last year, after a very challenging...

Let’s get into numbers: Ok, so it’s been a couple of years since I posted a Frugal Friday blog for the first and only time. But I plan to get back to it this year, so here is the second post.  For sure, times haven’t gotten any better and a lot of us...

Yes, I know it’s Friday and not Wednesday, so I’m a little behind. Story of my life. Let’s say this week has been . . . interesting, but I’m hanging on and trying to stick (somewhat) with a schedule. And today, you’re actually going to get two blogs...

Hello! I don’t know how often I’ll be blogging but I promise I am going to try to do it somewhat regularly, just because my writing muscles need to be worked out after lying dormant for so long. The struggle is real. With the upcoming World Cup, I th...

Happy New Year! (the mistletoe picture has relevance, I promise) This is the first Monday of the New Year, time to start off the year right! I tried this sort of post the first Monday of last year . . .and, while I wasn’t able to keep up with my blog...

  In continuation of reviving my blog, today I’m going to go with a Tuesday Teaser. This is from my novella Blood on a Texas Moon, a vampire story I wrote as part of an anthology. It was something fun and different . . .and it was written right befor...

              Can you believe that it is already September? I must be getting old because I keep thinking how has the year flown by so fast? I even found myself in somewhat of an existential crisis a couple of weeks back as it really hit me how my li...

Happy New Year! And… Let’s try this one more time! Who remembers that Chumbawamba song Tubthumping? “I get knocked down, but I get up again”? I’ve been told it’s a drinking song, but as a teetotaler, I embraced it for a different reason—it’s about bo...

    This is a placeholder book cover for the next Vista Security Series book, Forced to Trust. I was making good progress on it in 2020, and then well, you know what all happened these last few years. It especially set me in a spin because a novel va...