You heard it here first—I’m struggling with what to write next. I’m not a writer who can write endlessly in one series. I’m restless and need new challenges. I thoroughly enjoyed writing the Psychic Solutions Mysteries (Book #5 is almost ready for pre-order and #6 is in edits) and thus, I have debated doing a … Read more
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…
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?
How did I lose July?
Thank you everyone who sent me cheery messages after last month’s complaint about humorlessness.