Guess what?

I got to be part of an awesome group of authors whose books are priced from free to $0.99.  You should check these babies out, because I am pretty dang excited about the ones I grabbed. Oh and P.S., the new Mystic Cove book is out now, and it's only $0.99 too!   You can…

History Mysteries

Hey there, I don't know about you folks, but I am a *HUGE* fan of mysteries set in other time periods.  It was for this reason that I started writing my new series Zinnia West.  It's set in the 1950s, and it has been sooooo fun thinking about what life may have been like then compared…

Free Book!

Heya! This is a book born of friendship... During one of the hardest times in my life, my buddy, Auburn Seal, distracted me by suggesting we write a book together.  This is the first one.  The series now has 6 books, 2 short stories, and the first book is available for free here.  Check it…

5 Things You May Not Know…

...about Carmel-By-The-Sea, California... 1.)  They have a bakery that's been open for more than a 100 years.  I like to think they've been perfecting their recipes that whole time and they have a baklava that tastes like honeyed magic.  I can not confirm this, but I'd like to. 2.)  They have houses there called Hansel &…

I can’t even…one massive update…

...last year (I think) I wrote a blog post about how I didn't see how it could even be 2016.  I ditto that now.  I don't know how it's 2017.  I don't know how so much time has passed since my last blog post, and the truth is epic stuff is happening.  My life feels…

Why hellllooooo theerrrreee…..

Look at this pretty, pretty thing!  It's the fifth book (novella really) in my Rue Hallow series.  This book is huge in so many ways.  I decided last year that I needed to get a series to 5-7 books.  January brings the 6th Rue Hallow book, Fated Graves.  In February, you'll be seeing the 7th…

Two years ago…

Two years ago, tomorrow, my dad died.  At that time, I felt relief.  He had been so very...it was all the things.  He was uncomfortable, depressed, held back from the man he was.  It was hard for him to even talk and be understood.  He had a hard time hearing.  He had a hard time doing…

Six years ago…

...today my son was born.  Except I wasn't there.  He was born to another mother whose exit from his life has left a hole so big that even more than half of his life later--it comes out in all the ways. My son is wonderful.  He is smart, funny, full of stories which are the direct path to…

#FirstSevenJobs

Not sure why this became a thing, but I found thinking back to be very interesting (in reference to me) given that this is the last week of work for me at a place that has colored much of my adult life. 1- Babysitting 2- Dairy Queen 3- Fred Meyer Shelf Straightening chick 4- Built…

Things…news, events, memories, etc.

Three years ago on Tuesday, I published my first book. When I look back at what I've accomplished since then, I am pretty dang impressed with myself. But lets talk about what's important.  Spiders. Yes. Spiders. As in the giant house spider.  Something like this fellow: One of these evil little ... um... things.  Well…