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It’s been quite a year… …and it ain’t over yet. I hope the holiday season is bringing all of you much joy. While I celebrate Christmas and Solstice, there are many [...]

I can’t tell a lie. 2020 a very good year for reading. I read 90 books–thanks almost entirely to the public library which steadfastly and efficiently delivered ebooks to my Kindle and [...]

2016 ended on a high note for me, literarily speaking. I read some extraordinary books in November and December. As this is one of my favorite blogs of the year, I can’t wait to share them [...]

“All crime novels are social novels,” says Laura Miller in her recent article “Try To Remember” in The New Yorker, an article devoted to Dublin-based mystery writer Tana [...]

The Tucson Festival of Books is all about Story. Last year, some of you may remember, I attended as a participant. This year, my friend Mary Leatherman and I traveled south for a little getaway, [...]

TUCSON, AZ.–Not all that often does One submit an away-from-home blog, but that’s what One is doing today. My sister Janet, her significant other, and I spent the day recovering from [...]

“If it weren’t for a ridiculous snobbery about ‘crime writing’,” John Mortimer once observed, “Ruth Rendell would be acclaimed as one of our most important [...]

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.   [...]