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Consumer Tip No. 121: Watch Out for AI Text Messages
In honor of my Caught Dead in Wyoming mystery series, my assistant Gabriella Samuels is writing...
Consumer Tip No. 120: Banking Scam Caution
In honor of my Caught Dead in Wyoming mystery series, my assistant Gabriella Samuels is writing...
The Insult and the Injury. Or . . . Tech bros, tech bros, AI-AI-Oh!
Talk about insult piling onto injury . . . AI is inflicting both on authors these days. Yes, AI...
Consumer Tip No. 119: Warning Against Fake Party Invites
In honor of my Caught Dead in Wyoming mystery series, my assistant Gabriella Samuels is writing...
Consumer Tip No. 118: Watch Out When Buying AI Crafts
In honor of my Caught Dead in Wyoming mystery series, my assistant Gabriella Samuels is writing...
Consumer Tip No. 117: Be Careful with Google’s AI Overview
In honor of my Caught Dead in Wyoming mystery series, my assistant Gabriella Samuels is writing...
Consumer Tip No. 116: Warning Against Passport Scams
In honor of my Caught Dead in Wyoming mystery series, my assistant Gabriella Samuels is writing...
Consumer Tip No. 115: Beware of These Scams in 2026
In honor of my Caught Dead in Wyoming mystery series, my assistant Gabriella Samuels is writing...
Resources on Silas Soule
I had a great and fascinating conversation with Head Room (Caught Dead in Wyoming, Book 15)...
Consumer Tip No. 114: Look Out For Virtual Kidnapping Scams
In honor of my Caught Dead in Wyoming mystery series, my assistant Gabriella Samuels is writing...
This is the moment.
Hi there This is the moment. That sentence has been running through my head since Saturday, Jan....
Head Room hits Manhattan
Head Room, Book 15 in the Caught Dead in Wyoming series, hit Manhattan, appearing for a week on...
Consumer Tip No. 113: Be Careful of Real Estate Scams
In honor of my Caught Dead in Wyoming mystery series, my assistant Gabriella Samuels is writing...
Consumer Tip No. 112: Look Out for Google Forms Scams
In honor of my Caught Dead in Wyoming mystery series, my assistant Gabriella Samuels is writing...
Of Deadlines & History
The deadline on Head Room was made more . . . interesting . . . by having nasty...
Consumer Tip No. 111: Watch Out for “Credit Card Declined” Scams
In honor of my Caught Dead in Wyoming mystery series, my assistant Gabriella Samuels is writing...
Consumer Tip No. 110: Be Aware of Your Subscriptions
In honor of my Caught Dead in Wyoming mystery series, my assistant Gabriella Samuels is writing...
Consumer Tip No. 109: Warning for IC3 Employee Scams
In honor of my Caught Dead in Wyoming mystery series, my assistant Gabriella Samuels is writing...
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Author in search of a tagline
I might have mentioned I’m not good at marketing. My author friend Kay Lyons recently shared the...
It’s Spring, and Time for Lilac Festivals
The Lilac Festival in Lombard, Illinois, my home town, is the inspiration for the Lilac Festival...
Olympic Memories
Readers celebrate The Games with their Olympic memories. The most votes went to...
Reprise 3 — Because we all still need to hear this
A dear friend has been diagnosed with an early stage of uterine cancer. Her diagnosis reminded me...
Is Being Negative Truly “Helpful”?
Robert Frost said there was something in nature that does not like a wall. I’m here to tell you...
15 Things You Can do to Help Authors
15* things you can do to help authors you love who aren’t household names that won’t cost you a...
Straight from the heart: Fur babies
If you’ve ever followed me on social media or been part of Patricia’s ReadHeads, you know about my...
PSA: Learn From Kalli’s Antibiotic Neurotoxicity
Kalli’s had a situation that I want to make you aware of in hopes that you can spread the word, so...
Deadline & Kalli GI Issues Lesson
Authors have a tendency to sit in one spot for long periods of time. In case you’ve missed it,...
Fears and Purpose in Fiction Writing, with Mary Alice Monroe
Authors Love Readers, a podcast hosted by USAToday bestselling author Patricia McLinn, is a series...
A New All-Star Reader
A hearty welcome to Elaine Coghlan, who lives in the greater London area, as the newest member of...
Cure for Writing Procrastination
Procrastinating is dangerous. We all know it. I might have found a cure for procrastination....
Fork Over $2.5k, Learn to Scam via Kindle Unlimited
I just blogged about why Patricia McLinn books are not in Kindle Unlimited, including that I don't...
Message to My Readers List Folks
Dear Readers List folks, You’ve been hearing about the Facebook mess with data, right? (If not,...
Reprise 2: What I Did on Christmas Vacation
To share what I’ve learned about having and fighting cancer, I’m repeating this blog now because I...
LivePD Witnesses: Ah, Now I Get It
After watching LivePD (see my first blog on that experience), I better understand the reactions of...
Amazon & Scammers: The Update
A while back, I wrote a blog about how scammers are running amok on Amazon, especially in Amazon...
Ride Along With LivePD
LivePD is back on A&E. Have you seen it? It's on Friday and Saturday nights, following several...
Hurricanes and Recovery
This has been quite the week, learning a fellow author has lost everything in Hurricane Harvey...
Seeing Red Is Not Always Believing
If you don’t get my newsletter (and why don’t you? Huh? Huh? Huh? Just click on the link at the...
Amazon KU & Scammers
Kindle Unlimited is under attack from scammers – and this attack by Amazon KU scammers is hurting...
Oh, You’re Home
This came from a relative who received it from a friend. Love it! I didn't do it. Had nothing to...
Mystery Authors You Should Meet
Want to meet and mix with some terrific mystery writers? I did at the Malice Domestic mystery...
Guest author Pauwels on Wyoming 911
Cyndi and I met and hit it off at the great Magna Cum Murder mystery writers conference last...
Reprise: What I Did on Christmas Vacation
I'm repeating this blog now because I just had my one-year post-op exam -- with a good report. I...
The Object of Inanimate Hate
Cords hate me. Really. Have you ever had a whole category of inanimate objects hate you? Please...
Help Stamp Out PWI*
*Posting While Irresponsible This is as close to politics as I’m going to get. One of the reasons...
Guest Blogging on Writerly Research
A quick note to let you know I've guest blogged with the lovely folks of Liberta Books about the...
Book Signing! (Why They’re Rare)
A rare book signing appearance for moi! I will be speaking at the mystery conference Magna Cum...
Accentuate the Positive
For Part II, see Handling the Negative, Sept. 21, 2016 Accentuate the positive, eliminate the...