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.…
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 finally found time to write my scene today…it’s been growing in my mind and I’ve been scribbling notes, but the move has really interrupted normal time here. I’d say it was fine, but I miss my words and my blogging friends, so really, it’s not exactly fine. But eventually it will be. I had…

I’ve been telling the story on Facebook and Twitter about a small part in Sweet Melissa, another one of those autobiographical details, this one about my dear Aunt Linda. When I was a young girl, she ran away and joined the circus. I thought it was the most romantic thing ever. Now, probably, she was…