Dec 11, 2020 | A Day In My Life
My days are usually pretty humdrum. Certainly, since my wife ran off with a professional golfer and took our daughter with her. Amanda and I fell in love in college, and I brought her back to my hometown of Brunswick, Maine. We got married. Had a little girl. But...
Dec 10, 2020 | A Day In My Life
My name is Ruby Shaw. At least it is today. It was something else two weeks ago, but I’m not allowed to use my real name anymore. That’s what Victor Wilson, the US marshal who’d dumped us off in this godforsaken little town, told me. And my daughter? Yes, she had to...
Dec 8, 2020 | A Day In My Life
THE DEVIL’S BEACH BEACON/Your Hometown NewspaperHEADLINE: Coffee Shop Owner a Devil’s Beach NativeSUBHED: Ex-journalist Lana Lewis takes the helm at island’s most popular caféBy Mike HellerPublisherPage One DEVIL’S BEACH, Fla. _ There’s a sign in Perkatory, the iconic...
Dec 7, 2020 | A Day In My Life
I own Another Man’s Treasure Estate Sales, and “estate” implies dead. But you don’t have to be deceased to use my services. I also sell off the accumulated possessions of a lifetime for downsizing seniors or executives suddenly transferred to Gambia or Tajikistan....
Dec 5, 2020 | A Day In My Life
Hi, everyone! I’m Samantha Armstrong. I’m talking to you before the sun is up from the fancy, small town of Palm Beach. Home to sunshine, sandy beaches, mansions and—as it turns out—murder. Yep, I found a dead body on the floor yesterday morning. It was supposed to be...
Dec 4, 2020 | A Day In My Life
I steal a lot. Most writers do. Nothing beats research for a book’s setting. Real places ground me. The things is, you may have visited a place many times, but when you write about it, that’s different. Specific details you never considered become important. What do...
