My current book is this weird hybrid of domestic suspense and noir revenge thriller that I envision as part A STRANGER IN MY GRAVE and part IN A LONELY PLACE (book not movie), but I can never settle in my mind if it’s worth writing. Over the last two years, I’ve cut it from seven […]
I originally wrote something on Twitter about preferring journaling to blogging and the second I posted it, I knew it wasn’t true and I deleted it. Because the truth is I love writing here. I do enjoying journaling more than I ever thought I would and it has it’s place for helping me work through […]
Our schoolwork consisted of a two hour nature walk and a lot of questions to Siri. I cleaned the house, grilled hot dogs for lunch and pork chops for dinner, changed the litter boxes, and wrote 1040 words. Now I’m going to read until I fall asleep.
The nerds among you will remember I’ve been looking to return to legal pads for novel work, but most legal pad paper is garbage for fountain pens. I like fountain pens because their design and size is much better on my wrists for longer writing than other pens. I’ve heard good things about sugar cane […]
Very excited that my short story “Howard’s Heart” has been selected to appear in the next Mystery Writers of America anthology A Stranger Comes to Town. This is *very* exciting for me because I have always wanted to be in one of the MWA anthologies. I think they’re the premiere anthology of crime fiction every […]
My beat is crime fiction, as most of you know, but I also dabble in other corners of the literary fun house and certain authors who write a lot online like John Scalzi and Chuck Wendig have crossed over into the larger literary community as a whole and are read by folks well beyond […]
I’ve joked on Facebook a few times that I never expected to be the parent of an athlete and be involved in camps and competitions unless it was related to choir or theater. But Holly auditioned for pom on a whim and made the team and suddenly I’m a pom parent. It really does seem […]
This is what Friday looks like at our house tonight. We’re supposed to get a bunch of snow later tonight and into tomorrow morning, so the weekend will likely be one spent inside reading and writing. Hope your weekend, wherever it is, treats you well.
I talked a bit on social media toward the beginning of the year about using this year to dig back into this blog on a more regular basis to help combat the worst elements of social media. And let’s be straight here, I love social media. After a few tries going away from it cold […]
The first writing session of the year resulted in a net of 220 words. The last couple weeks of December and the first week or so of January were spent working on an outline for the secret project, and now that’s out the door so I had some time to work on this bit of […]
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