I guess Mother Nature forgot to check the calendar when she kicked off hurricane season early this year with two tropical storms, Arthur and Bertha, that already dumped buckets of rain in Florida. Because many friends and relatives live in the Sunshine State, I keep an eye on the weather there. The official season runs from June 1 to November 30 but nature doesn’t pay attention to petty details. In 2017, Hurricane Irma devastated the state, leaving 73% of residents…
This is a virtual bouquet to thank you for reading my books! Wish the lovely lilac fragrance could come through your screen. My new book, Dead Man’s Bluff, will be published on June 23, 2020. It is the fourth book in the Tawny Lindholm Series Thrillers With A Heart. Here’s a short summary: Investigator Tawny Lindholm’s plans for a romantic Florida vacation with attorney Tillman Rosenbaum vanish when they’re caught up in Hurricane Irma. Tillman’s…
Have you ever read about a character in a novel then met that person in real life? Recently I met TWO people in real life who’d stepped straight out of the pages of my books. One was my series heroine, Tawny Lindholm. Here’s a post I wrote about that fun experience for The Kill Zone.
Every fall in the 1920s, pioneer woman Noreen Catt set out from Victoria, British Columbia for the wilderness of northern B.C. where she cooked at a remote fish camp. Once the snows came, the access route became impassible. She and the work crew were stranded in isolation until the following spring. Before she left civilization, she had to estimate how many tons of flour, sugar, coffee, bacon, and other food staples were needed to cook three meals a day for…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Grab a green beer and a FREE copy of STALKING MIDAS! At six-seven, charismatic attorney Tillman Rosenbaum owns any courtroom he enters. He’s brilliant, successful, and doesn’t trust anyone, except his lovely new investigator, Tawny Lindholm. She has an intuitive gift with people and her outspoken honesty and unflinching integrity have opened Tillman’s soft underbelly. When he suspects his wealthy, estranged father, Moe, is a victim of elder fraud, he knows only one person who can…
Yesterday, a scientist friend called me from England, concerned about COVID-19 corona virus. She offered these wise words: “Today, I’m calling people I care about. Many are older and at high risk for infection. If they’re healthy, that’s wonderful and we’ve had a nice conversation. But if something happened, I would always regret not calling them today when I had the chance.” Phone calls don’t transmit viruses. I’m grateful she cared enough to call me. If you call someone you…
Your spring break trip is canceled. You stay home to avoid crowds. You watched everything interesting on Netflix. What to do now? You could clean out that junky closet but here’s an alternative that’s more fun: READ! Reading on Kindle avoids viruses. Reading is a limitless journey to different worlds. Reading expands the mind and increases knowledge. If you’re like me, your Kindle is a giant collection of TBR (to be read). Now’s the opportunity to catch up. Looking for…
Master story guru and teacher Larry Brooks graciously invited me to write a guest post for his award-winning blog. Thank you, Larry, for this opportunity to visit with Storyfix.com readers. If you’ve ever despaired about your writing, you’re not alone. Here’s the link to my post about The Fun Scale and Writing. Larry will teach a master class September 18, 2020 at the 30th Anniversary Flathead River Writers Conference.
Fiction reflects real life, sometimes too closely for comfort. My thriller Stalking Midas deals with a charming con artist who targets seniors. Then the crime became real when my adopted mother fell victim to elder fraud. The circumstances were different from the novel but there were parallels and an article grew out of the subject. My article was just published in Montana Senior News here. Montana Senior News also published another article I co-wrote with Dr. Ann Bukacek…
NY Times bestseller KAT MARTIN says: “TAWNY LINDHOLM IS UNIQUE, GUTSY, SMART, AND CAPABLE. WELL-PLOTTED, FAST-PACED. A MUST-READ FOR MYSTERY LOVERS.” INSTRUMENT OF THE DEVIL, Book 1 in Tawny Lindholm Thrillers With a Heart Series, is on sale from February 7 to February 14, 2020. Read it for only $.99 at this link. A dashing terrorist plots to destroy the electric grid, triggering the attack with the smartphone belonging to an innocent widow. Can Tawny Lindholm turn the instrument…
