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Reprise 2: What I Did on Christmas Vacation

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 wrote it two years ago today, sitting in the hospital bed with my laptop the day after I had surgery for cancer. The medical community still won’t go for “cancer free,”...
Amazon & Scammers: The Update

Amazon & Scammers: The Update

A while back, I wrote a blog about how scammers are running amok on Amazon, especially in Amazon KU, how it hurts you as readers, and that Amazon had not displayed any concern over this. Now, Amazon is further hurting readers by “disappearing” legit books...
Mystery Authors You Should Meet

Mystery Authors You Should Meet

Want to meet and mix with some terrific mystery writers? I did at the Malice Domestic mystery conference last weekend in Bethesda, Md., and want to share that with all of you. I also met amazing readers – oh, my, yes, I did. The dedication, diversity of reading,...

Guest author Pauwels on Wyoming 911

Cyndi and I met and hit it off at the great Magna Cum Murder mystery writers conference last October in Indianapolis. We’d been chatting for a while when she mentioned her background as a 911 operator in Wyoming, and I pounced!  I am excited to share with you...

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 figure two exams down, five o go over the next four years before the medical community will declare me cancer free and statistically I’m back with the...

1st Line’s Not Always the Beginning

She was going to pretend she didn’t remember him. There it is. The first line in THE FORGOTTEN PRINCE (The Wedding Series, Book 7.) This is a big deal to me. Okay, the first line of a book is important to every author. But that’s usually because that’s how...