This was the second book I ever wrote, and until recently, my least favorite. At the time I came up with the idea, I was reading about a murder case from the late 1920s where the murderer was schizophrenic, claiming
Why I Wrote The Good Daughter
Oh, brother, where to start? Many years ago, I realized I had a narcissist in my life and began studying narcissism to understand how to deal with said person. I found an old cassette tape with a couple of songs
Why I Wrote Doll Parts
This was a treadmill idea, meaning I got it while walking on the treadmill. It was meant to be released as a series of connected short stories (a serial, which were popular at the time) in which a doll army
Why I Wrote There I am in Pieces Again
There’s a decade of my life I would love to forget. It broke me. When I moved away from the situation, I didn’t know if I would ever be the same again. But after a short time away, emotions, in
Why I Wrote Ricki Rydell
The next five or so blog posts will be about why I wrote the books I did. What was the motivation? Where did the idea come from? That sort of thing. I like reading about why authors write their books,
Cozy? Or Brozy?
Full disclosure: I have long felt uncomfortable about my Ricki Rydell mystery series. I wanted to get into writing a mystery series but didn’t fully embrace hard-boiled, procedural mysteries, yet cozy mysteries weren’t really my thing either. So I settled
My Books are on Amazon
A lot of things have changed on Amazon’s storefront for Indie writers. One of the biggest is advertising. In short, Amazon has become a sort of pay-to-play site — if you want visibility on your books, you need to buy
Thank you!
I just wanted to drop a quick notes of thanks to all those who are reading my books. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Chapter One of The Good Daughter
One Dad warned me to stay away from girls like Eden Rhodes. On the first day of cross-country practice, I hung back and let her set the pace so I could keep an eye on her. She was a good