Remembering Tim Rose
March 27, 2013 There are people whose personalities, talents, and contributions resonate especially strongly with their peers. They have ways of connecting, of listening, of caring and of living life...
View ArticleThe Buzz at Left Coast Crime 2013
People you haven’t seen since the last large convention of writers and readers tap you on the shoulder, collect in small groups in the open areas, take each others’ pictures with cell phones, and fill...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Life: Writers as PR People
When we dreamt about writing books, most of us authors thought recognition would just magically happen. Write a good book and they will come, right? When we got contracts, we were dizzy with...
View ArticleChasing the Bad Hats
I’ve been checking the news sites regularly since the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers got underway, just like everyone else. I was skeptical that the perpetrators would be found via the...
View ArticleRollout for THE KING’S JAR Begins
As part of the launch for my second Dani O’Rourke mystery, I am doing what’s called a “blog tour.” I’ll be guest posting on about a dozen wonderful group blogs and linking to them from my own. Each...
View ArticleHow to earn a rich, chocolatey dessert
I wrote a short piece as a guest blog about “a day in Dani O’Rourke’s life.” It’s only a few hours actually. It’s one of the many guest blog visits I’m doing to let the world know that THE KING’S JAR...
View ArticlePromotion and Chocolate
Today’s not only Friday, my usual posting day, but 24 hours before the official (read: party) launch of THE KING’S JAR. The books haven’t arrived at Book Passage, the hand decorated French chocolates...
View ArticleSo What Is This King’s Jar, Anyway?
I don’t do this often, but since I’ve been asked a few times why I chose this artifact to build the new book’s mystery around, I wrote a bit about the African history that gave me the idea. This was...
View ArticleDani’s dilemma
Teresa’s Writing Corner is one of the stops on my current blog tour. The post I wrote for her is about Dani and Dickie’s backstory and the dilemma she faced after he took up with a celebrity underwear...
View ArticleVisiting the Jungle Red Writers today
Another stop on the virtual tour, today with some of our best, award-winning crime writers, who blog together as Jungle Red Writers. My post is called “Sister, Can You Spare a Dime?” and is about my...
View ArticleTag! I’m It!
There’s a tag game going around among authors. Diana Chambers tagged me posted last week and tagged me for today. She writes that she “was born with a book in one hand and passport in the other.”...
View ArticleIt’s All Good
Today, I posted on a group blog called Criminal minds, where I contribute every other Monday. The theme was best and worst book events you’ve done. I thought readers on my blog who don’t see Criminal...
View ArticleWho’s that talking?
Recently, the crime writers who make up 7 Criminal Minds were asked: “Have you ever tried to write a main character of a different sex?” My answer was, important characters, yes. Protagonists, no. I...
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