Dear Lil’ Blog readers,
Casey here. My fellow bloggers and I have made a decision: we’re closing down the Little Blog of Murder.
It’s been a great ride, and we’ve had fun, but like all good things, it’s time for this one to come to an end.
Thank you all for your support. I’ve enjoyed virtually [...]

In my December release, Too Much Stuff, Skip, one of the young detectives, is Scuba diving off the coast of Islamorada, Florida and he finds two gold coins from a 1728 Spanish shipwreck. Pretty cool.
Actually, it’s not unusual to find treasure in Islamorada. There were a lot of ships that went down in [...]

So I was in the Cleveland Clinic this past week and neither Amanda nor Casey even sent flowers. And Zorro was nowhere to be seen. Actually I was only there one night, so I didn’t tell anyone. But still…you’d think fellow authors…
For those of you who are familiar with the Cleveland Clinic, [...]

just got back from Miami. I usually stay at a friend’s condo on Byscane Bay. It’s called the Grand, and Tom has a wonderful place, 23 stories up on the water. You can see over South Beach. There’s a marina in front of the buidling, and the cruise ships dock not [...]

Too Much Stuff has finally had its last edit. The book which releases in December has gone through countless editing and this last round, carefully worked on by my editor and publisher, has made what I think is a great story, even better. That’s what edits are supposed to do.
One line here and [...]

Years ago, in my distant past, I remember an advertising campaign where the guy said “I don’t want to make money, I just love to sell carpet.” The suggestion was that at his prices he was giving the carpet away. I never heard if he went broke or not. However, that’s [...]

Remember when your parents told you how hard it was when THEY were kids? They had to walk thirty miles in a snowstorm…uphill, just to go to school? Well, I am now at an age when I can tell that story as well.
I started an advertising agency over 30 years ago. I wish I’d kept [...]

Remember when your parents told you how hard it was when THEY were kids? They had to walk thirty miles in a snowstorm…uphill, just to go to school? Well, I am now at an age when I can tell that story as well.
I started an advertising agency over 30 years ago. I [...]

I’m working on a short story about James Lessor and Skip Moore, my two guys from the Stuff series. My publisher feels we need to have a short story, introducing Skip and James to an audience that has not met them in the previous four novels. (5 comes out in December. Too [...]

Editors have long been known for having a slush pile…a collection of manuscripts that they have put aside, thinking one day they will reach into that pile and find a gem that they overlooked. Well, in most cases there are no gems and the manuscripts have been discarded for a reason. They aren’t [...]