The second book in the Endings series, Exit Strategy, dropped on May 17th. I love it. Like most writers, I spend a lot of time more or less in isolation, listening to the voices in my head. And once a year or so, it’s like we get let out to Read more…
I was so delighted to be interviewed by my friend and colleague the splendid novelist Dietrich Kalteis for his blog, “Off the Cuff.” Dietrich’s most recent book is Under an Outlaw Moon. The book is based on the true story of Depression-era bank robbers Bennie and Stella Mae Dickson. “She’s Read more…
With Endings coming out in paperback April 17th and Exit Strategy, the next book in the series, due out a month later, expect to hear from me a little more often than usual over the next few months. Most recently, I sent out a newsletter to my subscribers a few Read more…
I am once again gearing up to put together one of my highly infrequent but hopefully somewhat entertaining newsletters. If you’re not signed up, please do so. It’s easy, free and relatively painless. In addition it will make me happy. I get how making me happy not be a priority (and Read more…
Pretty sure I’m not eligible to enter, but you are. Booksweeps is having a big giveaway. It’s free to enter and you get the chance to win 50 works of crime fiction by women authors. One of those books is Exit Strategy, my new thriller out May 17th from Oceanview Read more…
For me, writing a novel is like a horse race while driving a herd of cattle in the dark. Many years ago, before Negotiating With the Dead came out, I interviewed Margaret Atwood. When I asked her to tell me one thing about the book, she said: I went around Read more…
Some of the characters in my books have pottymouths. Not a lot but a few. I can’t control them. There they are, going along as nice as you please and suddenly — boof! — something off-color will emerge. I’ve tried to chastise those characters and let them know that some Read more…
Today on her stellar “Craft Talk” substack newsletter, Jami Attenberg talks, among other things, about questions writers should be asking themselves. Things like: In the past I have had students ask me if I think they should quit their day jobs and focus on their writing. It almost always feels Read more…
There was a time about a decade ago that I decided I needed cardio in my life. I wasn’t getting up hills as quickly and without effort as I had in previous years. I knew I had to do something, but I wasn’t sure what. I knew that whatever exercise Read more…
In time for the scary season, I was so pleased to see Endings included in a powerful round up of novels from the perspective of killers. Writing for BookTrib, Judy Moreno writes: “… the seven selections below, even though they’re, thankfully, made-up, may keep you up at night with your Read more…