Novelist

How to Win a BookThis is the last day of our Florida Gulf Coast Sisters in Crime 12 Days of Christmas online event. Seems like everyone is using Facebook and that works for me as Facebook is my friend page. I have Instagram too, but I use that mostly to post whatever books I’m reading.…
Still following a decision I made a year or so ago: instead of a newsletter, I am going to treat the blog as a newsletter. I have a big list of people who get my blog posts in their mail so I thought it would work. I know of at least four people who keep…
And today’s headline was how social media is no longer what it was…it’s very awful, apparently. I had totally planned on doing all my marketing online. But now I think, maybe not. I do have a real brick and mortar bookstore appearance on Saturday. Maybe I should line up some more, as this one is…

I’ve had a very long relationship with Lily, the main character in the crime novel manuscript I just sent off to my editor this morning. It feels like I’m sending her off to her good life, something she’s been cheated out of for far too long. It was challenging for me to figure out a…