Vinnie Attending the Writers’ Police Academy gave me a wealth of cop info. I offer these 10 nuggets: A person will bleed out in three to five minutes. If you’re bleeding out, I can improvise a tourniquet with a two-inch wide band of material and something to twist it up good. In hand-to-hand combat, the rule … Read more
Squeezed & Juiced is now available in paperback! To celebrate I am giving away three copies via a Goodreads giveaway. You have one week to enter. 🙂 Her first real P.I. case, an ailing mother, and a stalled relationship. As Carol Sabala attempts to juggle the components of her life, they all threaten to crash. … Read more
Time for the misterio press re-release of Tang Is Not Juice (book 4 of The Carol Sabala Series). Notice the new title Squeezed & Juiced and the gorgeous new cover from Melinda Van Lone at Book Cover Corner. As with all the books re-released through misterio press, the innards are better edited, too. If you’ve read the … Read more
Whoot! The big day has arrived just in time for all those spring birthdays and Mother’s Day. Sleuthing Women has gone live on Amazon and Kobo. Look at the company I’m keeping! I’m so honored. Sleuthing Women: 10 First-in-Series Mysteriesis a collection of 10 full-length mysteries featuring murder and assorted mayhem by 10 critically acclaimed, award-winning, … Read more
Here’s a nice bit of news to wake up to on a Friday morning: COVER CRUSH! I can’t wait to show the cover designer, Melinda VanLone of Book Cover Corner.
“Always grab the reader by the throat in the first paragraph, sink your thumbs into his windpipe in the second, and hold him against the wall until the tag line.”–Paul O’Neil That’s the goal. On the literary blog The First Two Pages, writers discuss their opening salvos in traditionally published works. I have the honor to be … Read more
Did you make a resolution to read more? Have you joined the 2016 Goodreads Reading Challenge? Do you want to consider more mysteries for upcoming awards? My 2015 contribution to the mystery genre was Black Beans & Venom, on sale this week for 99 cents! Now what is this Sunnyvale thing, you ask? One month from … Read more
Half the fun is getting there! The BART was full of Santas on their way to SantaCon in downtown San Francisco. The weather cooperated, taking a break in the rain to give us a crisp, sunny day. From the 16th Street Station, Danny headed off to a museum, while I walked down Valencia past city … Read more
My husband is a secular Jew and I’m agnostic, but music knits our holiday season together. I’m a musician and he’s a music aficionado. We light the Hanukkah candles and I give my husband little presents each night, bound to include music-related items whether a CD (we’re old) or The Rolling Stones Illustrated History of Rock and … Read more
This week I have a guest post up at Killer Crafts & Crafty Killers. Learn how/why I made Carol Sabala a baker/private investigator. Included in the article is the recipe for traditional flan from my newly re-released book Death with Dessert. The post also contains a link to my Goodreads Giveaway for 5 copies of Death with Dessert—starts today … Read more