Books… Schooled is free this week 7 Dec 2015 Have you been waiting for the perfect opportunity to try the Lexy Cooper mystery series? There's no time like the...present. From December 7 through 11 the digital version of Schooled…
Books My new book is out! 6 Oct 2014 This is a proud moment for me seeing the first three Lexy books under one cover. Also new: this one released in eBook and paperback simultaneously. The book is a…
Books Free Books! 3 Sep 2014 In honor of the return to school, the first Lexy Cooper mystery is free this week. Download the Schooled eBook through September 6 for the price of sunshine! Here's what…
Books… Bringing out your dead: When to drop the first body. 12 Aug 2014 Conventional wisdom dictates that mystery/crime novels offer up a body early on. Think about every episode of every incarnation of Law & Order. There's the discovery of the victim, then…
Books… Course Correction – When a work-in-progress isn’t working 17 Jun 201417 Jun 2014 Last week I wrote a long post lamenting the shitty state of my new novel Summer Wind. If you want to read the whole boohoo thing it's here. The short…
Books… Why is this book taking so long to write? 3 Dec 2013 My first novel, The Sleepless Nanny, took nine months to write. It wasn't a long book, or particularly complex. I wrote it for one hour each night, most of the…
Writing Breadcrumbs: the art of leaving clues 15 Nov 2013 Writing is hard. Anyone will tell you that. Just sitting down and squeezing your brainthoughts onto a page via your fingers freaking HURTS. And I'm sure that non-fiction has its…
Books… Casting the Novel: Herding Your Characters 13 Sep 2013 I always knew that at some point I would need to create some system for tracking characters in my Lexy Cooper series. I just didn't know it would happen this…
Books… Bad as I Wanna Be – Character or Heroine? 15 May 201315 May 2013 Lexy Cooper is the protagonist of my mystery series set in the videogame business. You'll notice I didn't use the word "heroine." There's a reason for that. She's not heroic.…
Writing The side-effects of being a mystery writer 22 Apr 2013 I write mystery novels. This is a fairly new occupation. I published the first book in the Lexy Cooper mystery series in November, the second is now in the process…
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