I’m over at the Kill Zone Blog today, where I’ve posted a critique of  an anonymous author’s opening to a novel called The Last White Rose. I was shy about writing the critique because I don’t often do personal critiques, except for friends and the occasional student. But I had a lot of fun doing …Read More

  Thursday was such a scattered day. With rain in the forecast, I wanted to get those plants I bought earlier in the week in the ground. I was delighted to read that Euphorbia does bloom, and Astilbe can stand 6 hours of sun. I mistakenly referred to the white Campanula as harebell yesterday. Oops. It went …Read More

  News, y’all–I have big news! It seems that my peers, fellow members of Mystery Writers of America, have selected my short story, A Paler Shade of Death, as one of five finalists for the 2017 Edgar Awards in the Short Story category. What’s an Edgar Award? you might ask. (I didn’t know either until I became …Read More