Don’t you just hate it when you have to go through gyrations to make technology do what you want it to do?
For the last few weeks, I’ve been struggling to find a way to share the newest Pepper Martin mystery cover with you. I finally hit upon a solution. I printed [...]

It’s Wednesday and time again to blog. Trouble is, I don’t have any news. What I have had is 12 years of Catholic school education, and that means when I have an assignment, I complete it.
So blog, I will!
Spent the last couple days reading over the copy edits for Pepper Martin mystery #8, [...]

Border’s is closing.
You already knew that. But as I listened to the news and the analysis of what and where and why again yesterday, it got me to thinking. The news stories talk about debt and losses and other financial things that don’t make any sense to me. But there’s more to [...]

For a couple weeks, I’ve been trying–with no success–to give you a first look at the cover of my January release, “Wild, Wild Death.” Apparently, the publisher sent it in a format that doesn’t play well with whatever format it takes to plop the pic in this blog.
Well, I thought I’d finally outfoxed the [...]

Wednesday? Really? What with missing blogging last week because of my trip to Lily Dale, New York, and the holiday this week, the days are all mixed up in my head.
Which doesn’t mean I can get away from reality: vacation is over, and today is the day I start my next book. [...]

I must have looked frustrated when my son walked into my office one day last week. He found me staring at my computer screen and the manuscript open on it. “Just kill them all,” he said. “And get it over with.”
I explained how that was not an option. Especially considering that [...]

I have a new agent. The who and the what and the how and the why are issues for another blog. For today, what matters is that my new agent asked for copies of my most recent contracts. “That way,” she said, “when you get a new contract, I can compare them.”
The [...]

My son and his girlfriend were involved in a car vs. semi accident a couple weeks ago. She was driving, and while the good news is that neither of the kids was hurt, her car was totaled. Last week, she asked me if I would drive her over to the rental car place [...]

It’s no secret that I love old cemeteries. After all, it was in a cemetery that I originally got the idea for my Pepper Martin mysteries. As to why I was in that cemetery in the first place . . . .well, like I said, I love ‘em. I love the history that’s [...]

Each time I post something about my brainstorming group, I get questions. What do we do? And how do we do it?
To help answer those questions, I’ve written up a diary of my last week’s brainstorming session.
Saturday–thanks to mechanical troubles and a mid-air medical crisis, one of our brainstormers is 7 [...]