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Last week I finished my 11th book overall, THE GIRL FROM DIANA PARK, book 3 in the Damian Green series. Damian assists his friend Natalie...

I'm a little more than a third of the way finished with my latest book, THE GIRL FROM DIANA PARK, book 3 in the Damian Green series. I've...

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...

After finishing Crescent City Murder in late December, I had my next three books lined up, waiting to be written. I was diverted from...

I began 2018 by carrying around a notebook with ten blank pages allocated to each of my next three books. I have a two sentence...

I passed the half-way point recently in my eighth Jill Quint, MD series book entitled CRESCENT CITY MURDER. As I've mentioned in prior...

I’m on my seventh week of my local police Citizens Academy. It’s been interesting just learning more about my community reflected by the...

I'm 8,000 words into Crescent City Murder, book 8 in the Jill Quint series. I'm loving the story and enjoying my writing and learning...

Finally after nineteen months CASTLE KILLING is finished. This book is the shortest story that took me the longest to write. Go figure....

In December of 2015, I began the seventh book - CASTLE KILLING, in the Jill Quint, MD Forensic Pathologist series. I typed "The End" this...

I’ve puzzled over the last year or so why is it taking me so long to write CASTLE KILLING, book seven in the Jill Quint series. I’ve been...

Going wide versus Narrow For every Indie author out there, one of the consuming questions is whether to go wide (Apple, Kobo, Barnes and...

I thought I'd share a picture of my office where I do 90-95% of my writing. Another 5% comes from my local Starbucks and miscellaneous...

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE is an Ian Fleming story staring James Bond that was released in 1963 in the U.S., the year before the author died....

The bad news is my two works in progress, ‘Red Rock Island’ and ‘Willow Glen Heist’ will not be published by the end of the year, but I’m...

In a previous blog post, I mentioned that I had a large gardening project going on in my spare time. I’ve been converting thirsty lawn to...

I’ve been working hard on Castle Killing, a book that starts with a murder in Wales and moves on to Scotland. I had to research Scotch...

Last week I returned from New Orleans where I took in the annual Mystery Writers of America conference known as Bouchercon. It was my...

The Sisters in Crime, Northern California women writers’ chapter education session today was at a gun store and was provided by an...

I had planned to return to Castle Killing, book 7 in the Jill Quint series, but I’m really enjoying the Damian Green Series and so began...