Sunday is the day we take a break from Arlee Bird’s A to Z Blog Challenge, so I thought I’d slip in the monthly reminder to sign up for the box of books given away at the Mystery Writers of America website. This month they have nineteen books on the list. Nineteen! Here are the …Read More

If our main characters aren’t brave, if they don’t have the courage to confront evil, face their fears, and fight back to defend themselves or their loved ones, they’re not likely to be sympathetic characters. Most readers of mystery, suspense, and thrillers expect the main character to live up to the challenge, to be a …Read More

I admit it, I’m too busy having fun and being grandma today to post anything that doesn’t sound like one-year-old babble speak. Oddly enough, I think I’m beginning to understand what Talia’s saying. This is the best fun I’ve had in ages, even more fun than a writers’ conference. Tomorrow I start Arlee’s A to …Read More

This happens every time I go to a conference. I come home so full of ideas and energy and focus and resolve that I want to run from task to task, make new To Do Lists, type up queries and submissions (if I was invited to do so), make more notes, clean up my work …Read More

Day one of the Northern Colorado Writers Conference is now history, at least for me. There were still writers and agents schmoozing in the hotel atrium when I dragged my tired body home. Since I live less than ten minutes by car from the conference hotel, I commute. Immediately following the noon registration, a big …Read More