The Mountain Man’s Dog is now on audio!

The first of my Mountain Man Mysteries is now out on audio! The Mountain Man’s Dog was released May 18 to audiobook retailers and is already available for purchase or download on channels such as Bibliotheca. Soon it will also be out on iTunes, Nook (Barnes & Noble), Google Play, Kobo (which is also used…

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Lying in Judgment Now on Audio!

Lying in Judgment – now available in audiobook format! Pre-orders available now; shipping date, December 9, 2018.

Cover of the Month results are in!

Lying in Vengeance placed in the Top Ten (ninth, to be exact) out of over 200 entries in the AllAuthor.Com Cover of the Month contest for September 2018! I’m thrilled that this cover, designed by cover artist Steven Novak, appealed to so many who participated in the voting. It’s a huge honor, and a reaffirmation…

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Vote for “Cover of the Month” – Final Round!

Thanks to readers (and voters) like you, Lying in Vengeance has made it to the fourth and final round of the AllAuthor.com September “Cover of the Month” competition. Only the top 50 graduated to the third stage of the competition, which ran thru Friday, Sept. 21. In the final round, only 24 covers remain. We’ve…

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Lying in Vengeance could be Cover of the Month!

My book, Lying in Vengeance, is vying for “Book Cover of the Month” on Allauthor.com. Being selected “Best Cover” would be a huge honor and would help boost visibility of this book, one I’m very proud of and worked very hard on. It’s the sequel to my debut novel, Lying in Judgment. The cover, like…

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Plotters, Pantsers, and Painters

Plotters vs. Pantsers The writing world likes to divide itself into two groups: “plotters” and “pantsers.” Plotters are writers who plan their creative work in great detail before they write. They prepare and revise plot outlines, character sketches, locations, etc. to the Nth degree, it is said, before writing a single word. Pantsers, by contrast,…

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Why my plays are (almost) always comedies

Recently a friend observed that while my novels are all mystery/thriller/suspense stories, my plays are almost all comedies. Why? Here are six reasons I can think of.

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Where do you want me to start?

As I proceed on revisions to The Mountain Man’s Badge, book 3 in the Mountain Man Mysteries series, there’s one big decision ahead of me that I really need my readers’ help in deciding. Where do I begin? Don’t get me wrong: I have a complete draft of the novel, so I’m not asking “how…

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NaNoReMar: NaNoWriMo’s Re-Do-o-rama

Do you do the #NaNoWriMo? For the uninitiated, that’s a Pentagon-style acronym for National Novel Writing Month, a sort of online writing challlenge-slash-support-group for ambitious authors who want to slam out their first (or next) novel. Personally, I never have, although I did an analogous exercise for stage plays a few years back (Script Frenzy)….

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