Auvers, Panoramic View (ca. 18731875) by Paul Cézanne. Original from The Art Institute of Chicago. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. I did something very different when writing A CHRISTMAS GUIDE TO …
Writer’s Problem #253
When your protagonist investigates murder and her kids are way too interested. I have known for a few years that book 9 was going to be a Christmas mystery. I …
Getting Started
Someone once asked me how I began plotting a story and what my starting point was. My answer was that it was different for every book. In the case of …
Research Trip!
The door to Queen Caroline’s garden at Kensington Palace I took a little research trip to London last month and it was so worth it! I’m working on my 2027 …
The Subplot Plot
One thing that happens when you return to a manuscript after a few weeks’ absence is that you see problems you never noticed before. In my case, I have too …
My Re-reading Habit
Bookcase with sagging shelf–yikes! Work from home seems to be feast or famine. I have those times when I’m plodding along until my eyes are crossing and I’d pay someone …
The Countess of Harleigh Series
When I sat down to write A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder, I never dreamed it would be a series, and that one day I would be writing the …
Sharing some favorite, maybe overlooked, books I’ve loved this year
2025 was a great year for reading for me. I’ve read so many wonderful books. I don’t have an actual count, but it was probably double the number of books …
Ask Me Anything!
In anticipation of a back surgery that I had a week ago, I asked my newsletter subscribers to send me some questions last month so I could do an Ask …
The Spirits of Route 66
Since my blog post was due around Halloween, I pondered what I could write that was Halloween related. Then I remembered—I wrote a book of ghost stories! How could I …