New Contest for a Free Book!

New Contest for a Free Book!

There’s something about a contest that entices us to try our hand at winning. I’m happy to announce this morning that Amazon.com is running a contest for a free print copy of Moonlight Can Be Murder. All you have to do is click on this link:               https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/c7b75d3c8e3ee1b3 and follow Amazon’s […]

When In Danger or In Doubt, Make a Decision

When In Danger or In Doubt, Make a Decision

When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. Or, better yet, make a decision. I hate hovering between two or more choices, don’t you? Yet, sometimes a choice seems impossible to make because I don’t know the outcome. Running in circles, screaming and shouting doesn’t help much, but that’s what comes to […]

What’s Hiding in Those Small, Dark Corners?

What’s Hiding in Those Small, Dark Corners?

Another school year has drawn to a close. Teachers and students are cleaning out their desks, discarding some things, returning others, and taking home what’s left. I remember those days! But, what is hiding in those small, dark desk corners? In those far-off years of my girlhood, I actually sat at a wooden desk, the kind […]

A Noise in the Middle of the Night

A Noise in the Middle of the Night

The noise jarred my eyes open. I gasped and sat up. The luminous dial on my bedside clock told me it was two in the morning.      “Penny?” I muttered. “Did you knock something off a table?”      But the little cat was not on the foot of my bed. As I listened, heart pounding, […]

Without a Song the Road Would Never Bend

Without a Song the Road Would Never Bend

Without a Song there ain’t no love at all. I love the words and the philosophy. When life is hard, when there seems to be no answer to problems, when nights are unending, we’d have no hope at all without the music of the soul. Hope, no matter how deeply it’s buried, that candle that is small and […]

Her Favorite Cozy Mystery Writer

Her Favorite Cozy Mystery Writer

I am so excited to present to you, for the first time ever on this blog, the cover picture for my soon to be released cozy mystery, By the Fright of the Silvery Moon. This follows Moonlight Can Be Murder. If you haven’t yet read this first book in the Ned McNeil series, now’s a […]