Underground! What an intriguing, descriptive word. I love words that tease and tantalize the imagination. Underground! What does it conjure up, the benign or the deadly? Secretive, cloak and dagger, clandestine, covert or a mine. What a gamut of scenarios.…
Sixty-three and Counting It’s hard to believe, but in a matter of days I am going to be sixty-three. Did I read that right? Yep, like or lump it, I was born in 1960; therefore, I will indeed be sixty-three.…
Like most of us, I’d heard the name Annie Oakley before, but she didn’t interest me until about a decade ago when my father encouraged me to watch a PBS American Experience biographical special featuring Annie Oakley and her rise…
Cliffhangers! What tugs us from chapter to chapter? What creates a sense of anxiety and suspense? What keeps us reading a book far into the night? Or, we say to ourselves, just one more chapter. You reach the end of…
Doris Matheson—Not Your Average Geezer By Lauren Carr My favorite part of being a writer is finding new characters and exploring their minds and backgrounds to figure out what makes them tick. I enjoy presenting the character to the readers…
The Drama of our Life They say a picture is worth a thousand words. As one who writes many words, I decided to peruse some of the photos I keep tucked in my computer, and indeed I found some pretty…
Today we are celebrating the cover reveal for Anita Dickason’s Murder’s Legacy, Book 2 in A Tori Winters Series! Secrets that defy time! An inconceivable disaster strikes, bringing Tori Winters’ meticulous plans to turn her historic house into a bed…
International Adventuress, Isabella Bird Living in the untamed West in the turn of the 18th century certainly took some tenacity. Particularly in the Colorado Rocky mountains. But there were many people, including some pretty amazing women, who did it through…
Finding the Realism in books. A common thread in my crime thrillers is the number of law enforcement characters—FBI agents, Interpol agents, U.S. marshals, deputy sheriffs, sheriffs, special rangers, highway patrol officers, secret service agents, police chiefs, police officers, and…
Q & A WITH TOD GOLDBERG AND PERFORMANCE OF HIS STORY, “THE SALT” LINK TO VIDEO: During the busy holiday season, I’m sharing a 2021 STORIES ON STAGE SACRAMENTO () video performance by actor Philip Jacques of crime writer…
