I have a couple of friends who experience nature in very different ways. One takes her camera and her excellent eye for color and detail into her backyard. The other looks to the mountains for his nature fix by hiking or climbing. I’d like to tell you more about these two people and their new …Read More
Random Words About Whatever
The Quarantine Tapes First, let me direct you to the Blood-Red Pencil blog where I’ve posted about The Quarantine Tapes, a series of podcasts of special interest for Black History Month and to inform about how some celebrated writers are dealing with the pandemic. Walter Mosley served as guest interviewer for a couple of the …Read More
Progress on So Many Fronts
I seem to have worked through my month of inertia and am now charging full speed ahead on book projects. This includes getting the out-of-print thriller, Dead Wrong, back into circulation as an ebook. I made a few edits to this manuscript, mostly to clean up the language. I allowed my inner bad guy …Read More
What I’ve Been Reading
I have to report on what I’ve been reading because I have nothing to report on the writing front. I think I went into a state of suspended animation while we went through the election squabbles and then that frightening business at the Capitol. I did watch some news, but mostly I read books in …Read More
15th annual New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards
There are many, many excellent writers from New Mexico and Arizona (or who write books about/set in those states) in the writerly organizations I’ve joined, so I want to pass on this announcement for those who might be interested: The New Mexico Book Co-op is pleased to announce the 15th annual New Mexico-Arizona Book …Read More
Posted About Mysteries at the Blood-Red Pencil Blog
I’m hooked on quite a few mystery series and mentioned a few authored by writers from Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region when I put together my January post for the Blood-Red Pencil blog. I hope you’ll drop by and check out my list, trying a few of these fine series if the description appeals …Read More
Here I Am, Eleven Months Later
Someone asked me back in March if I was going to write about the pandemic. I said, “No.” And then I realized I couldn’t write about anything without it being tied to the pandemic. So I just skipped out on the blog for a few months and focused on other things. Not the puzzle, though. …Read More
Everyone Needs a Little Time Away from Writing
My husband and I take a little time each day to work on this 4,000 piece jigsaw puzzle. It covers the whole dining room table. We should have put in the center leaf before starting, but I was confident we could manage without expanding the table and taking up even more room in the dining …Read More
I’m Back!
I had knee replacement surgery on November 11th, 2019, and knew there were plenty of tasks I’d have to give up for two or three months. Blogging turned out to be the first activity to happily sit on the sidelines. The blog waited patiently for my return. As did the gym at the Senior Center. …Read More
Featured Book: Not Guilty by C. Lee McKenzie
It’s not easy for a writer to tell a story without sounding preachy when there are numerous lessons to be learned from the characters and events. C. Lee McKenzie pulls it off beautifully in the young adult novel, Not Guilty. Dialogue and narrative keep the reader in the story without a moment’s pause, and yet …Read More
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