Just a quick reminder about an upcoming event. Please join Montana authors Debbie Burke, Leslie Budewitz, and Mark Leichliter for a panel discussion on mystery, suspense, and thriller books. Tuesday, July 19, 2022, 2 p.m. at Buffalo Hill Auditorium, 40 Claremont St., Kalispell, MT 59901. Everyone is welcome! There will be… Continue reading
No, Going Wide doesn’t refer to my hips! In self-publishing terms, Going Wide means selling your books to different markets besides Amazon. To learn how to distribute to Barnes & Noble, Apple, and international booksellers, join me for a FREE class about Draft2Digital. Thursday, July 14, 2022, 7 p.m. at… Continue reading
Enjoy cookies and conversation with award-winning authors, Debbie Burke, Leslie Budewitz, and Mark Leichliter, who will talk about their newest mystery and thriller books. We’re celebrating Christmas in July for Leslie’s brand new release, Peppermint Barked. Our books will be for sale and we’re happy to sign them for you! Tuesday, July 19,… Continue reading
A kind soul–I don’t know who–nominated Debbie Burke as “Best Local Author” for the annual contest sponsored by the area newspaper. Whoever you are, THANK YOU! June 29, 2022 is the last day to cast votes in “The Best of the Flathead” contest. You don’t need to subscribe to the… Continue reading
On Thursday, June 23, 2002, I’ll be presenting a FREE tutorial to Montana Women Writers about Draft2Digital. D2D is an easy program to help you professionally format your books and distribute them “wide” to online booksellers like Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, and international markets. Montana Women Writers will… Continue reading
Reading Friends, today I’m asking for your input. I’m always on the lookout for real-life crimes with a bizarre, funny, or unusual twist–news stories where you shake your head and think “You can’t make this stuff up!” Here’s a sample entitled “Pee for Profit” that I wrote for The… Continue reading
Just received news today that Flight to Forever was named a Finalist for the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award. Hoffer Awards “honor freethinking writers and independent books of exceptional merit.” Eric Hoffer was a longshoreman turned philosopher who read voraciously and educated himself. He wrote ten books, including the ground-breaking… Continue reading
No, this picture isn’t photoshopped–it’s me with a real 700-pound bear named Buffy. Recently I wrote a post for The Kill Zone about interesting people I’ve met while researching articles. One of those is Ben Mikaelsen, an award-winning children’s author. Ben adopted a research cub that couldn’t be released into… Continue reading
Until Proven Guilty, the seventh book in the Tawny Lindholm Thrillers with Passion series, has just been published! When the law prevents justice…When DNA isn’t enough…When a lie is the truth. Investigator Tawny Lindholm and attorney Tillman Rosenbaum grapple with three challenging cases at once. After a rapist walks free… Continue reading
UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY, book #7 in the Tawny Lindholm Thriller series, is published. I interrupt this post for an important announcement: Today, March 24, is launch day for Until Proven Guilty. It’s also National Murphy’s Law Month (actually I’m making that up). For the past few weeks, everything that could… Continue reading
