What’s the most darkly memorable job you’ve ever had? It took a long time for me to get my footing as a writer. Before I figured out a...

I have a dark track record when it comes to VIPs. One of my sisters is a high-muckety-muck at a think tank. You’d recognize the name of...

As I’m revising The Alchemical Detective, I realize I understand a lot more about alchemy now than I did when I first wrote the book. The...

Someone disappointed me last week. I saw it coming-. I'd seen this person's traits for a while but had been making excuses. So I expected...

Whew! Night of the Cupid, book 7 in the Wits' End series, launched on October 31st. It's my last book launch of 2022. The holiday season...

It’s winter in Colorado, though it’s only November. But winter starts earlier in the mountains. Aside from an outbreak of flannel shirts,...

And you probably do too, because most people hate change. But I really hate change to a well-established routine. But after attending a...

I'm on the Beyond the Pen podcast, with Maccabee and Marcella. In time for the Halloween season, we talk Tarot, witchcraft, writing witch...

When I first came up with the Wits' End series, it seemed obvious to title the first book At Wits' End. It was funny, and described the...

Sometimes, creativity works best when it’s confined by rules, like a haiku. And for me, the more oddball the rules, the better. Here’s an...

Kindle | Apple Books | Nook | Google Play | Kobo Chapter 1 The second thing Riga was sure of was that at least her intuition was still...

If you’re a writer, the phrase “Amazon algorithm” has an almost spell-like quality. How the algorithm works is a deeply guarded secret....

Today’s class asks what mistake would I give up my pinkie finger to take back. (It’s a Japan-themed class, and this prompt has to do with...

Miyamoto Musashi. Ronin. Writer. Iconoclast. A self-taught samurai without a master, Miyamoto created his own fighting technique, holding...

In my continual quest to improve my writing chops, I'm taking a new course this week. Today I was challenged to write—in detail—about...

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Writing goals, genre expectations, and the corporatization of the publishing industry. I've been thinking a lot lately about my writing...

Every writer starts out and (if they're good) remains a reader. But what happens when you can't read? This happened to me yesterday...

A year ago, I had this idea to include a murder mystery game in the back of my Big Murder Mystery books. I even took a class on how to...

Because it's a Sunday, and I'm lounging with a cup of tea reading random things, I came across this interesting survey on American public...