Inspiration

I love looking at old menus, seeing what Chance & Kye would have dined on when they go out on the town. Here’s one I found from the right era, […]

Of course, what you watch depends on what era you prefer to write about, but if you’re a Western writer, you should obviously be watching Westerns. It’s hard to find […]

I’ve started a new mystery series, this one set in Hawai’i by author Neil Plakcy (yes, Grammerly, I spelled it correctly–I double-checked). Mahu is the Hawaiian word for homosexual, and […]

So I finally finished reading this classic Gothic novel, supposedly the first detective novel ever written. Here’s what I thought of it: This is a long book — 423 pages […]

OK, I’ve had to put Woman in White down as un-finish-able. Maybe I’ll go back to it later, but for now I’m trying the author’s other famous novel, perhaps the […]

I’ve signed up for my local library’s Winter Reading Challenge and one of the challenges is to read a book written in the 19th Century. I thought, since I like […]

I attended a virtual talk by Connie Berry and won a copy of her latest mystery! I’m just starting it, so don’t tell me anything about it… Kate Hamilton will […]