Jun 4, 2024 | Author Showcase
Authors are always asked, “Where do you get your ideas?” I’m a news junkie. The ideas for all my stories, from the first book I wrote back in the last century to Sorry, Knot Sorry, the thirteenth and latest Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, sprang from news and...
Oct 5, 2023 | Author Showcase
We interrupt your regularly scheduled “Day in the Life” post to bring you a dispatch from the front lines of the book biz. The legal thriller is back and better than ever! John Grisham is coming out with a sequel to The Firm. Suits is the biggest show on streaming....
Aug 30, 2023 | Author Showcase
Most of the short stories featured in the forthcoming Bouchercon 2023 anthology, Killin’ Time in San Diego, are set in and around sunny (and, it turns out, often seedy) San Diego, California. But that’s where the similarities end. As editor of this collection, I was...
Jul 9, 2023 | Author Showcase
In Crime Under The Sun, the second anthology offered by Partners in Crime, the San Diego chapter of Sisters in Crime, fifteen stories capture the hopes and dreams of characters trying to live the idyllic SoCal life. Here are the opening lines from each story....
Dec 1, 2022 | Author Showcase
Thank you, Dru Ann, for hosting us for the third year in a row! This year’s anthology features four brand-new stories, two reissued favorites from the first Festive Mayhem, and one reprinted story not published in either 2020’s Festive Mayhem or 2021’s Festive Mayhem...
Sep 23, 2022 | Author Showcase
Four authors. Four stories. One Town. And a whole lot of trouble . . . How did the Trouble in Tumbleweed collaboration come to be? From a desire to connect and create. A writer’s work is solitary, even lonely at times. The pandemic exacerbated this sense of isolation,...
