October Newsletter
The State of the State We’re settling in for fall around here. Brilliant color, cold morning walks, baked apples. Most of the wineries have finished harvesting grapes and are now processing [...]
The half-year in books
More than half of 2016 is behind us, and it’s a good time for a mid-year book review. How is your reading going? Mine is a little slower than I would have liked, but I’m reading some [...]
New information re: Emma mystery #3
It’s time for an update. You need to know that progress is going extremely well on Book #3 in the Emma Golden Mystery Series. Rough draft should be completed by end of March. Editing blitz, [...]
The bad news…and the good news
The bad news is that I’ve been trying to get to the inner sanctums of my web site for more than a week so I could update y’all on what is happening in the writer’s life. Help [...]
Author discoveries
Earlier this year, I noted in this blog that I am committed to spending more of my reading time with indie, small press, and self-published writers. Let’s face it, we are taking up a bigger [...]
The Indie Scene, Part 1
The first thing I want to say about the Indie Scene is that, since I am a part of it, I have decided to devote half the books I read in 2014 to indie and self-published authors. While many indie [...]