I’ve been reading a lot of young adult fiction lately. It’s a fabulous pool to dip into. It’s the pool that nearly drowned me twenty-some years ago. I conveniently had a sore throat the morning after every late night spent nearly finishing some wondrous book or another, which allowed me to stay […]

I am hereby announcing a Snow Day. As I don’t feel much like writing a witty post today, I am giving myself a Snow Day. Reasoning? My imagination has white-out. As this is the case, I figure everything I write today will need wite-out. Therefore, the Snow Day.
You too are […]

“Oh, you really lucked out.”
“Huh?”
“You’ve got Valentine’s Day.”
“What? Oh, crap. That’s right. Thursday is Valentine’s Day. Crap.”
Such was the conversation between me and the hubby a couple days ago.
See, people think it’s easier when you’ve got a fixed theme to blog about. Not so, I’ve found. I mean, I […]

Brand names bug me. Nothing screams out of date like a brand name come upon decades later. It’s a cheap ploy to set up a situation as ritzy by naming the cars the valet is parking, the type of champagne drunk and the store at which the protag. bought his wristwatch. It’s […]

This time last year, I’d started a “survey” of all the sub-genres of mystery in order to introduce me to works that I hadn’t read before: to the pleasures of noir, the craft of police procedural, the perils of fem jeop. Of course, like all things I try to put on a schedule, to […]

In the poll that we’ve never changed here on Good Girls Kill, the results show that the vast majority of you all want to read stuff about the writerly life.
Alas, if one does not hit the bestseller list, if one does not marry money, inherit money, hit the lotto or a bank (the […]

I began reading when I was 3. I had it easy. My five year-old sister was learning to read and I was just there, doing nothing in particular now that I was potty-trained. So, why not annoy her incessantly by looking over her shoulder and teach myself?
I remember my first “word” book. […]

No, I’m not taking a vacation day. Just going out to sit in the waiting room while one of the kiddies has “a minor procedure.”
Since I’m not going to be able to check in, I thought I’d leave you all with some food for thought from one of the books I gave as a […]

“I never want to see you again! Go away and don’t come back!”
That was the last time we met, a few years ago. Just a week or so ago, we met again.
“How’ve you been? You know, you look pretty good. In fact, you’re downright charming. How did I ever forget […]