May Gray, June Gloom
I’m dusting off my old Family Genius mysteries and looking for new covers. We’ve decided to go with cartoon-style covers so we can get more mystery elements into them. What do you think of this one?
I’m dusting off my old Family Genius mysteries and looking for new covers. We’ve decided to go with cartoon-style covers so we can get more mystery elements into them. What do you think of this one?
We’re just back from what was meant to be a research trip. I was eager to see Charleston, Savannah, and the islands again…
I have made no secret that I am an extreme introvert with no ability to recognize faces or remember names. But I have other advantages, like a perversely stubborn single-minded focus on accomplishing what I want done—as long as it only involves me and no one else. So I can stifle my shyness and learn … Read more
The life of an author isn’t all boas and fascinators
Writers get their ideas from life: snippets of conversation, the behavior of people in a restaurant or airport, reading the news, just watching the scenery go by from a car. . . Quite often just a line or two I’ve read in a book or heard in a play or song will trigger an entire scene. So … Read more
In our family, we’ve always done a lot of adjusting holidays to our lives. Travel at holiday time is hair-raising and everyone has more than one family to visit. So we just pretty much declare the days from Thanksgiving to after New Year’s Day as Holiday Time. When a bunch of us can gather on … Read more
I’m back from Italy and learned so very, very much! Not just history, although I wallowed in that, but the differences in our cultures. Take food, for instance. . . Our guide warned us that most Italians prefer a small cup of espresso and something sweet for breakfast, not eggs and bacon. Although our hotels kindly provided … Read more
Remember how we used to plan romantic trips and jump on planes, boats, and trains with scarcely a second thought?
Merely Magic pre-orders downloaded this month with the wrong book! Those of you who received MAGIC MAN–besides getting a free read–need to contact Kindle support at http://www.amazon.com/kindlesupport and ask for the correct book. I have no idea how this happened, and I pray it never happens again, but thank you so much for your patience … Read more
How did I lose July?