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
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, 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
Your continued interest in my books means more to me than you know. As a small THANK YOU for your support, please accept this FREE short story, The Job Interview. Hope you enjoy this background peek into how Tawny Lindholm goes to work for the brilliant but abrasive attorney Tillman… Continue reading
I’ve met some wonderful new writers at The Kill Zone. One is the delightful Kay DiBianca, critically acclaimed, award-winning author of a cozy mystery series set around the theme of TIME. If you’re a fan of puzzles and lighthearted mysteries, I hope you enjoy learning about Kay’s creative process in… Continue reading
Fire lookout towers, organ donation, Chopin piano concertos. What do they have in common? They are three subjects covered in my recent interview on the GSMC Book Review podcast. Host Sarah formerly lived in Montana and we always enjoy swapping Montana stories. This time, I learned in the 1940s… Continue reading
Author Betty Bolte writes Historical Fiction With Heart. Recently she hosted my character Tawny Lindholm on her blog. What a fun interview! Please check it out at this link. If you enjoy romance and history, visit Betty Bolte’s website.
Are there mystery readers on your holiday gift list? May I recommend Kay DiBianca’s Watch Series? A Watch that Tells More than the Time . . . Someone left a watch for Kathryn Frasier to find. Does it hold secrets about her parents’ deaths in a car wreck? The… Continue reading
