Like lots of us, I’ve been writing stories since someone shoved a crayon in my fist. I got lots of oohs and ahhs from the adults in my world, not unlike a trained monkey at the circus might, but what I didn’t get was any kind of organized or professional support. There was exactly one …Read More

I’ve done some awful things to Rachel Goddard over the course of six novels. She’s been hypnotized and brainwashed, shot and shot at, held at gunpoint several times, tied up, locked in a cupboard, and beaten. She’s crawled deep into a low, narrow cave, and she’s barely escaped with her life from a house filled …Read More

I took a chance with The Esposito Caper. It was definitely out of my comfort zone in regards to the language one of my characters uses. But characters are just that. They’re people and they will insist on acting like themselves, no matter what you try to do as the author to make them into …Read More

My sci-fi murder mystery, In Retrospect, comes out this week, and in keeping with the title, it seems like a good time to reflect on a few of the experiences in my life that informed the book. In chronological order: As a child in the Sixties, I listened to the news with my family every …Read More