Coffe With A Cop
Yesterday, my daughter Lorien graduated from the Howard County (MD) Police Academy as an auxiliary police officer. This is a volunteer...
Nonfiction: The Fiction Writer's Ally
Doing research for a novel can involve more than history books, archives, and the other usual resources for honing details of terrain,...
Mystery Genres Have Many Faces
In April I attended the 30th anniversary of Malice Domestic, an annual conference held in Bethesda of mystery authors and fans. I’ve...
Malice Domestic 2018
April is here, and while I’m still waiting for warm spring weather, I do have a sure thing coming up--this year’s Malice Domestic...
Be Careful With Conflict
I once read a biography of Earl Stanley Gardner, an attorney and prolific author who wrote close to 150 novels. His most popular books...
Ghosts, Mediums, and Seances, Oh My!
In researching my latest cozy mystery, I wanted to find out how mediums make ghost knocks. I googled “magic knocks,” “ghost knocks,” and...