I always feel like I’m cheating a little bit when I take pictures at the fair because the colors and subjects are so vivid. This was the third summer we’ve been in Southern Illinois and each August we’ve gone to the “down state” DuQuoin State Fair, which couldn’t be more charming. Even though I was …Read More
There’s an email making the rounds of various writers’ email boxes. It came to me a couple of weeks ago–now many people on the Sisters In Crime listserve say it’s definitely a scam. Here it is: Hello, My sister is one of your biggest fans and she has terminal breast cancer and her birthday is …Read More
It seems that Michael Bolton and Nicolette Sheridan are no longer an item. Actually I don’t give a fig about their relationship, and am no big fan of Michael Bolton. I just wanted to make a reminder note to self here because it’s (almost) indelible: NICOLETTE SHERIDAN AND NICOLETTE LARSON ARE DIFFERENT PEOPLE! I watched …Read More
When P and I got married, we moved to his family’s dairy farm near tiny Lewisburg, WV. It was a major culture shock for me. I’d been living in alone St. Louis, not far from The Hill, a working class part of the city where I felt relatively safe out walking during the day. But …Read More
My daddy was in the Corp, so I’m always delighted to see a Devil Dog as a literary hero. Today, Andrew Peterson–the guy who blew every other panel out of the water with his BATF, bomb-sniffing dog demo at Thrillerfest this summer–introduces former Marine sniper/CIA operative Nathan McBride in FIRST TO KILL. McBride is a …Read More
[Photo Source] It’s the first day of school today. Again. With P being a university professor and the kids being, well, kids, I feel like the first day of school always comes up too fast. The swim things are put away, new clothes are in the drawers and backpacks are filled with spanking new pencils, …Read More
I know this is old news, but book marketing plans have been on my mind lately. Here’s a tried and true one: get the most photographed woman on the planet to pick up your anti-human tirade/recycling guide-disguised-as-a-diet book in front of the paparazzi! [Photo source} It’s every publisher’s dream, of course. I confess that I …Read More