We escaped sultry St. Louis over a decade ago to move to sunny and seventies Southern California. We love it here. But this year, apparently, SoCal decided to remind us of what we escaped—a month of heat and humidity. Except now, we’re suffering through it without air conditioning, because sunny and seventies shouldn’t require a/c … Read more
My July 21st release of THE KILLER’S DASTARDLY INTRIGUE is my 100th published book!!!!! It’s been a long strange trip since the days back in the early 80s when I sat with my 99c Walmart notebook and 19c Bic pen and scribbled stories to amuse myself while the kids played in the backyard. Those were … Read more
I think I write small town books where everyone helps one another because I can’t control the world outside my doors, but I get to give good people happy lives and send the bad ones to jail.
I am doing my very best to feed you, my beautiful readers, a new book every three-four months, but the number of things on my To Do list keep growing! I think we’ve re-covered and updated the Dark Lords and Dangerous Ladies series, the Rogues and Desperadoes, and the Too Hard to Handle series. To … Read more
I want to write. I have characters running around in my head, doing ridiculous things, and they need room to romp. I don’t think I can project my brain images into a TikTok video or an Instagram photo. So instead of promoting my new books, I
am scribbling as fast as I can.
I have been effectively writing three books a year since I started writing full time back in the last century (I love the way that sounds. I’m historical now!). Because publishers are slow, a third of those words seldom saw the light of day until e-books came around.
New Release! The Mystery of the Missing Heiress releases October 6!
I don’t know if you remember that song. I’m sure it dates me. After last year’s exhausting trip to Egypt, we vowed to make our next one simple, so we booked a lovely small ship cruise around Alaska’s coastline. We foolishly thought it would be a short trip from here In California. Scratch that. No … Read more
I don’t know about where you are, but here in sunny California, the winter has been worse than it’s ever been—and to compound the misery, natural gas prices are through the roof. I can’t huddle in front of my gas fire, and I’ve had to set the furnace to awful cold. But any time I … Read more
