I’ve been very busy volunteering as the Local Organizing Committee Chair for Bouchercon 2023 for the past three years. As a result, this blog has had very little content. It was a good idea but I just didn’t have the time to write anything for it. I was barely getting …
I was very excited to be asked to do an online interview with Terry Shepherd about my story in the upcoming Capitol Crimes anthology. In the end, we talked about my volunteer work on steam trains, marketing ideas, and the purpose of life––in addition to writing and the particular short …
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Next week I was to be in New Orleans, on a short story panel for Bouchercon. Obviously, the event was cancelled (you know why–I thought things would be better by now, but I guess not). The panelists had already been talking about the topic and decided we would go ahead …
It’s been a fun journey towards publication. Today I discovered that a third short story I have written has been accepted for publication. A few months ago I found out that the first short story I wrote, “The Crossing,” was a Derringer awards finalist for Best Short Story. The anthology …
If you go to the blog Wicked Authors today you will find an article by Art Taylor introducing four authors from the California Schemin’ Bouchercon Anthology talking about the inspirations for their stories. I am thrilled to be one of the four featured authors and I talk briefly about how …