What do you like most about the books you enjoy? Is it the setting, that intriguing plot, or, is it the characters? Thinking back on my favorite stories, I remember the characters. When I read each of the books, those characters became alive to me. They weren’t words on paper; they were living, moving, thinking, […]
May 24, 2022
Or, Doesn’t It Matter?
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I’m simultaneously doing two things: re-reading one of my favorite mysteries by Mary Roberts Rinehart and starting to write a new cozy mystery, new protagonists this time. Not Ned and not Darcy and Flora. Maybe it’s because I’m stuck in an earlier time zone, although I actually wasn’t born at the time Miss Rinehart wrote […]
Apr 1, 2022
Is This a Joke?
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Is this weather an April Fool’s joke? It’s hard to believe, but earlier this morning, the thermometer registered twenty-six degrees! And yesterday, we had an hour’s worth of snowfall. It melted soon as it struck the ground, but, still… April greets us with a bit of a cold shoulder, but she is actually a wonderful […]
Mar 25, 2022
It Almost Didn’t Happen
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I wanted to write a second Ned McNeil Moonlight mystery, following Moonlight Can Be Murder. I had the title already, By the Fright of the Silvery Moon. It sounded suitably chilling. That was the starting point–I wanted to write it. But, it wasn’t all that easy. I wrote the opening scene and read it to […]
Mar 15, 2022
The Ides of March
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To the ancient Romans, the Ides of March was a time for settling debts. For Julius Caesar, it was a time of betrayal and death; but, for us, it simply marks the middle of March and a week before the official start of spring. This ides dawns with gloomy skies and damp ground. So far, […]
