Bad Habits In early March, I had progressed to 7K words for the start of my newest novel - “The Girl From Diana Park”. It's book 3 of the Damian Green series. Then life happens; while hiking in the snow with a bum ankle, I stepped wrong torn what remaining ligaments I had in the ankle, broke my fibula, and then broke my hand when I landed on the ground in pain. I covered that accident in my last blog post. It sounds like the recovery period for these injuries would provide th

In December of 2015, I began the seventh book - CASTLE KILLING, in the Jill Quint, MD Forensic Pathologist series. I typed "The End" this morning, nineteen months later. Granted I also began a new series producing Red Rock Island and Willow Glen Heist, but I did it because my 'pantser' ways were not yielding the written word and I wondered if the first series had come to an end. It hasn't. Last week I decided I would finish the book at the sixty-thousand word mark as I couldn