December 10, 2025
It’s Smashwords’ 2025 End of Year Sale! My P.J. Benson mysteries (the Crow books) are included in the sale along with Echoes of Terror, and two romances: Lyons Pride and Heiress Seeking Perfect Husband. I wish I had more books with Smashwords, but I fell behind the two years my husband and I decided to […]
August 28, 2019
My summer is ending with a couple unexpected but neat events. #1. In 2017 the publicist I’d hired sent out press releases for Echoes of Terror, and I received a response from Jackie Minniti, who writes “Fabulous Florida Writers,” a monthly column for The Island Reporter, a paper that covers the South Gulf Beaches in […]
May 24, 2017
Not long ago I saw an ad on Facebook for a book contest. Two writer friends had “Liked” it, and the contest sounded great: free advertising for a period of time and a certificate/label you could use on your book if you won. Also, for this month, they’d reduced the cost of entering the contest. […]
August 3, 2016
Recently I’ve been seeing emails where the topic is the following question: Can I Use Real Places? The answers (as they should be) have been “Yes,” “No,” and “It depends.” It depends on what real places (Disney is very protective of its Trademark and anything to do with its products or theme parks.) and what […]