This morning, I’m posting a chapter from By the Fright of the Silvery Moon, when Ned was thankful to just be alive. Chapter 5 The next day passed peacefully. I kept an eye out for questionable people, invited Pat and Jackie over and stayed close to home. It wasn’t that I was scared or intimidated; […]
Jan 12, 2022
Nancy and Me
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As a youngster, I learned many things from Nancy Drew that were not written on the pages of her books. I learned that Nancy was the kind of girl I would like to be. Nancy was a magnet who attracted mysteries. To anyone else, clocks were clocks, staircases were just what they seemed; but, not […]
Oct 18, 2021
Cuddle with a Cozy
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Sometimes people ask me where I get the ideas for my books. Let me tell you, they come from everywhere: from something someone says, from an unsolved mystery in real life, or just from asking, “What if?” Anything can prompt a story and I’m off and running. My characters? Well, sometimes a character is a […]
Oct 9, 2020
Therapeutic Snipping
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My back yard looks a whole lot neater. Yesterday, I wheeled my trusty wheelbarrow into position, took the snippers and started clipping and picking up and stacking. Dead wood, odd bits of tree limbs, a rose trellis that had seen better days, it all went into the wheelbarrow. Now, to get it to the curb […]
