November 11, 2026
Today the nation celebrates Veteran’s Day. A day of thanks for our veterans’ service. I celebrate it every day because I married a veteran (Marine) and my brother is one (Naval Air Force). My husband was in communications, not on the front lines, and hasn’t had to deal with PTSD or physical injuries, so those […]
August 23, 2017
Yes, I know you can’t trust everything you read on the Internet, but I love being able to use it for research. When I first started writing (back in the dark ages), if I needed to research something, I had to drive at least 20 miles to reach the nearest large library, and even then […]
September 24, 2014
Our Friday afternoon speaker was Lisa Gardner, a #1 New York Times bestselling suspense novelist. Lisa spoke on: “From Fact to Fiction: How to Turn Chilling Research into a Thrilling Novel.” I’ve read some of Lisa’s novels and she truly does write a chilling story. Much of what she said wasn’t new, but it’s always […]
September 10, 2014
What a fantastic four days. This was my second Writers’ Police Academy and I still wasn’t able to work in all of the interesting and informative sessions. Thursday night we watched Eli Jackson and her sister demonstrate how to disarm someone if they have a gun pointed at you. After demonstrating the technique, we were […]
June 11, 2014
I started writing in the ‘80s. My first books were basically “Write what you know” books: teaching, Santa Barbara, Michigan, a farm community, and a local township supervisor who made me angry. I did do a little research: I talked to the local (female) banker about how the men in the community were reacting to […]
September 5, 2012
Today I was in Walmart looking at pregnancy tests. Now anyone who knows me understands how strange that is. I have two grown children and enough white in my hair to make me bald if I plucked all those hairs. I think the young gal who came up next to me (while I was reading […]
June 6, 2012
I love being able to send e-mail; I hate making phone calls, especially cold calls. I don’t know why using the telephone is so difficult for me. My co-workers used to tease me that I didn’t even like calling to order pizza. Calling someone I know personally isn’t as bad, but even then I worry. […]
May 23, 2012
I have put together a rough outline for the third (and I think final) book in my P.J. Benson Mystery series, but I can’t start writing. Actually, I probably could write one or two pages, but then I’d have to stop. Why? Because I don’t know the whos, the whats or the wheres that I […]