Join attorney-author Mandy Miller and me for an exciting panel discussion about mystery writing! SAVE THE DATE and TIME – DETAILS and CONNECTION INFO will be posted soon! Thank you @poudrelibraries and @oldfirehousebooks for organizing this event!...

The writing is pure creative flow state fun. Even during times when the words don’t seem to fall onto the page by themselves, I still enjoy the process. The only cost in the writing process was my time. That is valuable and precious, but also something I am more...

Chemical Signals by J.C. Rivers...

Maybe it’s just me? The writing was exhilarating. I was surprising myself with what came next. The characters became part of my everyday life and I wondered what they were up to. Disciplined writing times helped me find my groove, and when I was in that flow state, little...

I spent many years getting to know my protagonist. She was visiting my dreams. I thought I knew her story. I tried to write it. A romance, coming of age book about her. The story didn’t come. It was forced. So I stopped. I should have guess that nearly...

Never in a million years did I think I would write a suspense-full novel. Don’t get me wrong, I have always enjoyed reading them. Brown, Baldacci, Christie, Clark, Patterson and the list continues. Suspense writing came naturally to me. I wrote like I read. Always having to resolve the...