Category: Research
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The Waxing Moon, Percy Cole, and Me
Occasionally, we writers write ourselves into a corner. And so it was with the latest Persephone Cole Vintage Mystery, Hotshot Shamus, debuting in time for Mother’s Day. In some ways, finding out you’ve made a big boo-boo can be a challenge. Being the inventive sort that writers are, we often come up with a pretty…
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The Drop-Dead Temple of Doom et al
I was just told by a friend I hadn’t written a single blog about my latest addition to the Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries, The Drop- Dead Temple of Doom. I didn’t realize that. You could have knocked me over with a puma. I threw in puma, because Drop-Dead takes place in the jungles of Guatemala…
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Sheltering in Place – Day 61
You never know what you’re going to come across when you are doing research for a book. Case in point: today an idea came to me about how to fix something that wasn’t working in my latest manuscript. And if I don’t get this sucker done soon I am going to kill myself, figuratively speaking.…