OK, here’s something you probably didn’t know about me–I am a beekeeper.
Yup, there’s a hive in my backyard (a second one is coming this spring) and inside on a warm, summer day, you’ll find about 60,000 honeybees.
Why?
I can’t say. Not for sure. I can tell you that I’ve always been fascinated with bees [...]

If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time at all, you surely remember our good buddy, CR Corwin, who died in 2008. We miss him at the the Lil’ Blog. His humor and his insights were always welcome.
Now, there’s a way you can help memorialize CR.
The [...]

An article in a recent Forbes magazine has declared Cleveland the Most Miserable city in the country.
Apparently, part of the criteria they used to determine this was economic, and it’s hard to argue with that. Cleveland’s been hit hard by the economic downturn. Jobs are few and far between, property values have dipped. [...]

Sitting here this Wednesday morning, watching the snow fall and wondering what I was going to blog about when the publishing gods intervened and I received a jpeg of my newest cover.
So here’s a first look at the wonderful, fabulous, awesome cover of “Tomb with a View.” The book will be on store [...]

Back from a week of brainstorming in Sarasota and once again, I’m reminded of how important and energizing the brainstorm experience can be.
There’s nothing like sitting around with four trusted author friends and tossing around ideas. This past week, I had the opportunity to put my little gray cells to work on women’s fiction, [...]

Who doesn’t love a good mystery?
Well, there’s one brewing in Baltimore. In case you haven’t heard, it’s all about the Poe Toaster and January 19, Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday.
Who’s the Poe Toaster? That’s all part of the mystery. No one is sure. In fact, the only thing that’s certain is that [...]

My brain says it’s Wednesday and I must blog.
My stuffy head, packed sinuses and sore throat say otherwise.
Happy Wednesday, all. I’m going to get another cup of hot tea.

Hello and happy new year!
It’s been a busy week around here. In addition to celebrating the holidays then taking down and packing up all the decorations, I’ve started a new book.
Or I should say, I started writing a new book.
Because, you see, I’ve actually been working on the book for about three weeks now, [...]

Sure things can get plenty weird in New York City. Ask anybody who’s ever visited, and any writer who’s ever had to deal with sometimes incomprehensible publishing decisions!
But once in a while, a flash of real genius comes out of the Big Apple.
Good Riddance Day is one of them.
The day, sponsored by the Times [...]

Santa came a little early this year. I found out last Friday that books # 4, 5, and 6 in the Pepper Martin mystery series (“Night of the Loving Dead,” “Dead Man Talking,” and the yet to be published “Tomb with a View”) have sold for publication in Germany.
They join “Don of the Dead,” [...]