September 17, 2025
Today I’m turning my blog over to Z (aka Elizabeth Haines), a fellow Michigan Sisters in Crime member. Z lives in Richland, MI, with her husband, Steve, and their cat princess, Winnie. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, piecing quilts, or attempting, usually unsuccessfully (according to her), to grow tomatoes. Despite reading over a hundred […]
May 5, 2021
A few weeks ago, I asked Pamela S. Thibodeaux to be a guest on this blog and she said she would be glad to, especially since she discovered something while writing her new release. How to Know When a Story is Not Working by Pamela S. Thibodeaux In all my years as a writer, I’ve […]
September 24, 2019
With so many books being published nowadays, how do you promote your books (or yourself)? That is the question Hometown Authors asked me. For my answer, check out today’s blog on their site: https://hometownauthors.com/book-marketing-tips/get-noticed/ No laughing at what my husband did, OK?
October 3, 2018
Last month my long-time friend, Nancy Gideon, mentioned her publisher was releasing one of her early (very early) romances as an audio book, so I asked her to write about the experience. Audio Ga Ga by Nancy Gideon After my 30+ year writing career, I thought I’d done and seen it all. Wrong! I never […]
August 1, 2018
Today, please welcome Diane Burton as she relates how she came up with the idea for her most recent release, NUMBERS NEVER LIE, and why it took so long from idea to finished product. Thanks, Maris, for inviting me to your blog today. Ever since we met, twenty-some years ago, I’ve thought of you as my […]
September 27, 2017
This week, Lainee Cole is visiting my blog to talk about AT MIDNIGHT, an anthology that she’s in. Welcome, Lainee. Tell me about AT MIDNIGHT AT MIDNIGHT includes three love stories: Midnight Casanova, written by me, Lainee Cole; Two Days Until Midnight, by Lynn Crandall; and Midnight Deadline for Love, by Rena Koontz. Each story features an […]
September 13, 2017
The other day my friend Joe Novara and I were sitting on my deck, looking out at the boats on the river, talking about what we were reading and why. Before Joe left, I asked him to write something about why he felt reading other authors’ books helped a writer. This is what he sent. […]
May 17, 2017
Please welcome Charmaine Gordon, a writer of many talents. (Read more to learn what those talents are.) Charmaine has just released Charlie’s Family Secrets, an “Omnibus Edition” of three of her novels: Reconstructing Charlie, Sin of Omission, and The Catch. Reconstructing Charlie Charlie Costigan has a secret. Home life goes from bad to worse when […]
July 13, 2016
I’ve been friends with Joe Novara for over ten years. We were in a critique group together for some of that time, and after that group disbanded, Joe and his wife Rosalie acted as Beta readers for my novel A Killer Past. In return, I’ve had a chance to read parts of Joe’s new novel, Come […]
May 20, 2015
Last year Pam Thibodeaux offered me four spots in 2015 on her blogspot. (www.pamswildroseblog.blogspot.com) On May 9th she ran the 3rd of those blogs, that one was about A Killer Past, and in July she’ll run the 4th blog, which will be about Eat Crow and Die. This is just one of many examples of the […]
February 18, 2015
Today my good friend and fellow writer, Joe Novara, is my guest blogger as I enjoy a visit from my daughter. A few weeks ago Joe mentioned how he’d been learning some new ways of expressing ideas from reading other writers. That led to the blog I posted last Wednesday: Read to Learn. I asked […]
October 21, 2014
Elizabeth Meyette and I decided to trade blogs this week. She’s posting on mine, and I’m on hers Elizabeth Meyette. We’re both talking about books we’ve written (and have available) that are perfect reading for the Halloween season. Here’s Elizabeth’s explanation on how she came to write The Cavanaugh House, along with a blurb and […]
January 15, 2014
Today I’m pleased to introduce Ellen Larson. I met Ellen last spring at MWA’s one-day conference, “Sleuthfest in Sarasota,” and discovered she is also a Five Star/Gale/Cengage mystery writer. Her first book with Five Star, In Retrospect, was released December, 2013. When the two of us are in Florida (escaping the cold winters up north), we […]
April 4, 2012
Please welcome my guest blogger, Shelly Bell, as she talks about: The Day the Music Died Music is part of my soul. When I was younger, my head was always full of music. No matter what I was doing, I had some song playing in my mind. I’m not the only one. In college, my […]