Press
Exit Strategy: the Trailer
Since I’m gearing up to promote two books in 2023, in order to get my ducks in a row (not real ducks!) I had this little book trailer put together for Exit Strategy, my 2022 novel. The book brings Read more…
Just Hello
Hello. It’s Me.
In the rollicking ride that is contemporary social media, it turns out it’s easy to take your eye off the prize. The prize in this case is your attention. Instagram. Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, and more (and more and more) all Read more…
Newsletter
Exit Strategy is Out!
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 Read more…
Press
Off the Cuff for Exit Strategy
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 Read more…
Newsletter
(Mostly) New News
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, Read more…
Newsletter
All signed up?
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 Read more…
Contest
Win Books, Books, Books!
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 Read more…
Writing Life
Writing A Novel: A Horse Race. Driving Cattle. In the Dark.
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 Read more…
Writing Life
The One That Got Away
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 Read more…
Writing Life
On Amplification and Other Questions
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 Read more…