Reading
I guess I haven't posted my reading list in a while. Not sure anyone cares, but I do get a heady pleasure out of keeping the list. It's a nerd [...]
Cute and probably drunk
Someone found my blog by Googling "edgar allan poe was cute."You and I need to be friends.
Mystery of life #2
Today I was sitting on our back porch, hot and reading—what else?—a book on mysteries, when my husband came out and asked if I'd seen our plat of survey.Plat of [...]
How I got my agent
That's right. My agent.Welcome to Part Two of my writing life.I said a couple of posts back that I wouldn't talk about the process until it had been resolved, but [...]
Sail
Oh, so this is the new Google look you were all bitching about last week. I guess I should log into gmail or Blogger more often.Yes. More often than NEVER.Here's [...]
This is a post, Mary Anne.
"Someone hasn't updated her blog in a week."This is what my friend Mary Anne just said. We're in her kitchen, "writing," after a visit to the local mystery bookstore, Centuries [...]
The Reading List continues…
Goodreads.com insists that I'm still two books off my pace. There is nothing like a little pressure to make me feel like it's OK to sit on the sofa all [...]
Mystery of life #1
I've said it before: I love mysteries. I love the mysteries that I encounter every day.Sometimes a mystery will nag and nag at me until I have to work it [...]
Building a mystery
I write books with mysteries in them.Sometimes I stop short of calling them mysteries, because there are some designations between the subgenres that seem to move around. Much like Chicago [...]
Perspective
So I've been working on my novel again.Again? you ask. And you'd be right to call me out.See, what happens is I get sidetracked. By life. Life is very distracting, [...]
