If you look really closely, you'll see a small turtle hidden in the reeds in this picture I took at Wye Marsh a few years ago. Today, I'm feeling a lot like that turtle—scared to stick my neck out, wondering if I should just stay out of sight, pretend I'm not even here. My so-called [ Read more...]
To read my new article, "Murder in the Bullpen," as well as articles from over 30 other mystery authors who have sports stories in their repertoire, check out the new issue of Mystery Reader's Journal. The entire list of articles: The Turf and the Gridiron in Detective Fiction by Gary Garner Adventure Crime-A Wild Niche [ Read more...]
So last night, I'm reading a book by Lois McMaster Bujold called Miles Errant, which is really two books and a novella in one, and after finishing the novella (which is very good, by the way) and after hitting myself upside the head for not seeing the ending coming, I happen to glance at the [ Read more...]
I saw the upcoming topic for Mystery Reader - “Scandinavian Mysteries” – and thought, “Nothing to do with me.” A few days later, I got an email about it and deleted it. Several weeks passed. Then, one day while my husband and I were babysitting our grandson, Leif, we got talking, for some reason, about [ Read more...]
They all said I needed an advertising gimmick of some sort to give out at mystery conventions. Some people give out poker chips, wedding rings, rubber bands, tea bags, peanut butter cups, lollipops – you name it, it's been used. So – what could I use for Shaded Light ? I thought of a light [ Read more...]
I suppose every writer likes to talk about how he or she wrote the "first one." Shaded Light wasn't my first published book, but it was my first mystery. And it took a lot of sweat, and a lot of time. I believe I've loved mysteries for as long as I can remember. When I [ Read more...]
I've been working hard each day this week to find time to do a little work on my writing, even if it's just 15 minutes a day. Doesn't matter what I work on as long as I do something! Tonight, I started thinking about my next Manziuk and Ryan Mystery. I know what the setting [ Read more...]
I did it! Wrote a fantasy chapter book for my granddaughters in time for Christmas. Even managed three edits. This is the working cover I used on the Advance Reading Copy of the book. Of course, things did change a little bit along the way. The original goal was to come up with a story [ Read more...]
“I would read other books, of course,” wrote the novelist Neil Gaiman, “but in my heart I knew that I read them only because there wasn’t an infinite number of Narnia books.” My son sent me that quotation the other day. Partly because he knows I’m a big fan of the Narnia books, too, and [ Read more...]
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