There is always pressure on writers to come up with a tagline for their books. For the fourth book in the Endings series, Insensible Loss which comes out today, it took me a really long time. I mean, I came up with stuff (because they made … Continue readingINSENSIBLE LOSS Debuts Today!
In an effort to trick everyone on the planet into reading my books, my publisher is giving away electronic copies of book one of The Endings series until book four comes out mid-September. Endings, shown at left, is the one that has been optioned for … Continue readingGet Endings for Free!
When the organizers of the 2024 Killer Nashville conference announced the finalists for this year’s Silver Falchion Awards, I was delighted to see that Dead West had made the cut as a finalist in the suspense category. You can see all of the shortlists here. … Continue readingDead West Makes the Cut
I recently published a newsletter. A link to that is here. For me, the most exciting part is showing off the fourth book in the Endings series, Insensible Loss. That book will be published in September, but have a peek at the cover now. My lovely … Continue readingOn Reveals, Debuts & Seeing Your Face
Don’t get me wrong: I loved the splendid isolation of the pandemic as much as anyone. (!) But, like a lot of people, I’ve been really digging the gradual reintroduction to the things we all took for granted in the time before. Remember all those … Continue readingSpring Break for Writers
I was excited to learn that Dead West has been named an Amazon Editors’ Pick in their list of Best Books of 2023. It caps the year off nicely! If you have yet to pick up your copy, you can grab it here in various formats. … Continue readingBest Books of the Year
It seems like it’s been a long time coming, but today is the day. On the path to publication, Wild Horses: Running Free (Orca) nearly broke my heart a few times. When I began writing the book several years ago, I skipped blithely forward, thinking … Continue readingWild Horses: Running Free Debuts Today!
I have a newsletter. Sometimes I post things to it, though not as often as I should. I did one yesterday. I think it was a super fun one. If you’d like to see it, it’s here. Among other things, I write about the time … Continue readingNew News!
Setting in fiction is one of those topics those of us with fiction on the brain talk about pretty endlessly. What makes it? How do you create it? What do you do with it or without it? For some of us, setting is everything (eg: … Continue readingSetting Things Up
I’m about as excited about the upcoming publication of Dead West, the third book in the Endings series, as I have been about any of the more than dozen books I have written. That debut will happen on September 5th. In anticipation of that, the … Continue readingHere Comes Dead West