Category: writer’s life
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I followed Walter Mosley!
No, not as a stalker but as a fellow author, and I am still jazzed about it. As part of Mystery Writers of America, I was one of eight authors doing a reading for Noir at the Bar for the Bay Area Book Festival on June 3rd. The other authors were (reading from right to left): moderator…
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Cruising as a Writer’s Retreat
My husband and I do a lot of cruises. In fact, we recently got back from a cruise to Alaska which showed that state to be wondrous in many ways. Just look at Mendenhall glacier. Oh yes, and Victoria BC’s Butchart Gardens, built in an abandoned quarry. It’s incredible! Flowers, plants, trees, and waterfalls that…
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Free Book Contest for Readers of Murder Mysteries
Starting today, May 8th, and until the 22nd, The CEO Came DOA, Book 5 of the humorous Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries, is just one of 30 books by 30 terrific authors which can be won for free! Enter the contest, and maybe you’ll win a free book or more than one! Lots of fun! Just…
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Very Exciting News! Murder is a Family Business Now An Audio book
Yippee! The long awaited – at least, by me – audiobook of Murder is a Family Business is now out! And if you choose the free Audible trial, you get the audio version of my award-winning book FREE, narrated by the talented Marci Himelson! Save
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Honeymoons Can Be Murder, a Novelette
Hi, everyone. I’m excited about the new Lee Alvarez Mysteries, beginning with Honeymoons Can Be Murder, a Novelette, Book One. This new, shorter spin-off series of The Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries was a lot of fun to write. And I’m hearing readers are enjoying it, too. I’m so glad, because I plan to write more! Below…
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Ringling Brothers Circus, Mom and Me
So long, Ringling Brothers. You were a large part of my life from since I can remember. I even used the every day life of the circus, fueled by stories told me by my mother, as the subject for a standalone mystery noir, Death of a Clown. But more on that later. Judy Garland used…
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How Real Are Your Characters to You?
Are you ever emotionally drained by writing certain scenes, and how real are your characters to you? This is the latest subject of Robin Round Blog. And it’s a doozy. Because when I write, I not only become the characters, I become every living thing. And not so living. Like a car. I don’t know…
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Finding the Sweet Spot of Novel Writing
The idea of writing a novel can test the mettle of the best of us. I don’t care if it’s your first or your eleventh time out (like me, right now). It can be one overwhelming, oh-m’gawd-am-I-really-doing-this? Maybe it’s the blank screen of a computer. Even if you write in long hand, it’s still the…