So, back from Malice Domestic Mystery Convention, and very nearly caught up on email and everything else that comes with being away from home for a week. And, just for the record, my flights were all on schedule (well, there was that hour and a half delay in Dallas, but actually I had a very […]

So…right about now Sara and I should be setting out for the wilds of Pittsburgh — wish us luck!
Obviously I wrote this post ahead of time (in an attempt to distract myself from brooding over my soon-to-be-lost luggage). I have the world’s looniest writing schedule right now — I may have mentioned that last week […]

So in our last thrilling installment, Corpse Pose, the first book in my series from Berkley, had just come out — thankyouverymuch — and I was agonizing over the fourth book in the Poetic Death series. I have to say it was a little surreal revisiting those characters after a two year absence. In fact, […]

Corpse Pose, the first book in my new Mantra for Murder series, is officially out tomorrow — although frequent poster (and fellow Berkely author) Jenny…Good Lord, Jenny what’s the rest of your pen name?…tells me it’s already popped up on the shelves of various Barnes and Nobles. And I see it’s got an Amazon sales […]

So I was prowling the ‘Net today looking for ideas to blog on — because without fail the good blog ideas always come to me when I am nowhere near my laptop — and I came across this blog with the title CRIME WRITING: TEN CLICHES TO AVOID.
Not that — in theory — I have […]

I’m actually on a roll with my movie viewing. I’ve seen three very good crime films in the last month, and I’m moved to comment on them. You know how rarely I have something nice to say about movies? Okay, that was rhetorical.
Anyway, three crime movies I feel confident in recommending — and in […]

I was corresponding with a reader of the Cozy Chicks blog, who happened to mention what a hard time she was having with a particular Nicholas Sparks’ book — in fact, all of his books — because she keeps comparing them to The Notebook.
She loved The Notebook. And, naturally, she keeps hoping that he’s going […]

More and more I find myself stumped for blog topics. Oh, I can think of all kinds of things I want to blog about when I’m nowhere near my laptop — and they aren’t all rants, either — but when I sit down to blog…
So I went prowling the Internet for likely topics, and I […]

It’s goofy, I know, but sometimes when things are going really wrong for me I hear this little cartoon voice going, “It’s the Professor and Rock Bottom!” Yep, adversity has a name. It has two names. And the cartoon voice belongs to Felix the Cat, who was my first and favorite cartoon experience — or […]

I was reading an article a few weeks ago about how scientists, working night and day, have at last come up with a cure for tears caused by cutting into a fresh onion. That’s right. One of the greatest problems facing mankind has now been resolved. Whew. Now maybe they can get back to dealing […]