Our guest blogger today is Richard Roach, author of the suspense/mystery novel, SCATTERED LEAVES. You can visit his website at http://www.richarderoach.com. I started writing one foggy night back in 1957. The rig was making a trip (changing the drill bit) and I sat alone in a lab filled with gas detection equipment that was so…
It never fails, when I’m wrapping up a novel, there are characters that just grab me and seem to demand their own story. That’s the way it was with DEAD RINGER and Christmas Past which is in the SILVER BELLS anthology with Fern Michaels, JoAnn Ross and Judy Duarte. The two female characters in my…
Many many things inspired my book —The Sighing of the Winter Trees. The change of season, winter, spring, summer, and fall. Romance, holidays, seasons change, seasons begin. Love warmth, etc. mystery, sunset days beautiful mystery in life, Seeking warmth with a cup of tea in bed on a winter’s night. .Dreamin about beautiful things to…
Heart of Diamonds is a high-concept romantic thriller about blood diamonds in the Congo. The plot involves the White House, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and an American televangelist in a diamond smuggling scheme that is uncovered by a TV reporter, Valerie Grey. The idea came from research I did that was…
The Story Behind the Book 