When I first met Kaitlin, Cassie’s best friend, in Cassie Scot: ParaNormal Detective, she came with a theme song: “Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places.” She slept with Jason in that very first book, a one-night stand that resulted in her son, Jay. But it might surprise fans of the series to know…
The idea for Wild Within came because I took an exercise class with a gregarious instructor and a nervous ex-wife. The background is a little complicated. The instructor knew I’d written a memoir, knew a woman in class who had a fiction-writing son and ex-husband, and this all led to my attending a father-son book…
I have been in love with writing since I first treasured the smell of paper and the flow of ink. Mom would read to me and I would ‘pretend to write’ on anything I could get my hands on. ‘Pretend to write’. That phrase haunts me still when I am asked to create a guest post…
I stepped up to the challenge of learning the craft of writing mysteries after I sent a manuscript for a mystery to a New York editor way too prematurely in my career. Lou Aronica sent back my critique and ended with these words, “I’m not sure you have the DNA to write a mystery.” Ouch! …
I am an attorney who used to try criminal and civil cases, but no longer. After forty years, I now serve as a mediator and arbitrator, working to resolve cases before they go to court. But this is only part-time. I am also an author. I have written two books about a lawyer in Sacramento,…
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