Dec 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dear Santa, I hope this finds you well and safe and enjoying your holiday prep up there at the North Pole. I’m not sure if you’re taking requests from writers during these troubled times, but I thought I’d give it a try anyway. I won’t lie. I wasn’t quite as good a...
Jun 15, 2021 | On Writing
Start with characters. “Action is character.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Start with action. “Get your character in trouble in the first sentence and out of trouble in the last sentence.” ― Barthe DeClements Put your characters in motion. “All fiction is about people,...
May 25, 2021 | On K-9s, On Writing
Dogs and writing. Writing and dogs. Hard to say which comes first in my life, since we have three rescue dogs and the mystery series I write features former MP Mercy Carr and her retired bomb-sniffing Malinois Elvis. I’ve also written a memoir...
