Can you recommend a great read?

I’m heading up to our camp on Lake Superior at the end of the month, and I need to stock up on books. Can you recommend a great read (book name and author, brief description) — and tell me why you loved it? My preference is mystery and suspense but...

For the Love of Book Clubs

One of the things I most enjoy about being an author is meeting readers (especially readers who like my books!). Since the publication of The Hanged Man’s Noose, I’ve had the good fortune to be a guest author at a few local book clubs. Basically, the club...

The Masters Tournament

Spring 1934: President Roosevelt was trying to prevent an auto strike. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler was working on a plan to increase Germany’s population. Clark Gable attended the Academy Awards dinner, but Katherine Hepburn and Charles Laughton declined to attend....

Descrambling Scrivener: Part II

In Descrambling Scrivener: Part I, I promised to tell you what I’d learned from Gwen Hernandez’s excellent course on Scrivener. Here are the basics: Creating a new project: Think of Scrivener as a three-ring binder where you can store your writing, research, notes,...

Descrambling Scrivener: Part I

Get together with any group of writers, whether it’s through an online chat forum or in person, and the subject of Scrivener is bound to come up. And while I’m sure Scrivener has its fair share of detractors, one thing is irrefutable: those who love it really love it....