Journal
Browse here for posts related to all aspects of my writing life including
events, news, travel, research, mythology, and musings.
Do You Love Mystery, Crime, and Suspense?
Image by Reimund Bertrams from Pixabay So do we! If you missed our Facebook Live reading, here’s a link to the recording: www.facebook.com/watch/?v=219754589781356 Writers in our Midst (WiOM) is a popular reading series of fiction, poetry, and performance hosted by...
Contagion: To Love the Land
This Old Golden Land is a book about Orkney written by Helen and Mark Woodsford-Dean of Spiritual Orkney. Helen is a British archaeologist who fell in love with Orkney over several visits and moved there permanently. Helen provides, not only the archaeological...
A Night of Mystery & Mayhem on FB Live
Here's your way in: Click here to join us live tomorrow night. Don't worry if you miss it. It's being recorded so just check back when you have some time to kick back, relax, and watch some crime and mystery writers in action. Here's a link to author bios. I'll be...
Our Words CAN Kill but Murder Demands a Reckoning
What will it be? Join me for a glimpse Into the terrifying minds of mystery and thriller writers as we read aloud from our novels. For some of us, crime really does pay. When: Wednesday November 25, 2020 at 7pm Where: Facebook Live Event. Who: You can find all the...
The Magic of Orkney
The Ring of Brodgar I travelled to Orkney with a dear friend in 2009. It's an incredibly magical place; one I'm sure I've lived at least one life before. At least, that's what one of my guides tells me. So I was thrilled tonight to join Philip Carr-Gomme's "Tea with a...
The Beauty of the Olde
As I'm packing for my upcoming move, I'm weeding books. I found this charming 1958 hardcover edition of Shirley Temple's Storybook that was a gift to my sister and I from our aunt and uncle. It contains the fairy tales Shirley Temple loved to read to her own children....
