March 27 – The Left Coast Crime conference opens tomorrow, so Rachel and I used today to visit Whistler and Shannon Falls, a couple of hours north of Vancouver. We had scheduled the visit for Monday, April 1, but weather forecasts predicted rain and/or snow in the mountains, so we …
March 26 – Rachel and I attended the Left Coast Crime 2019 (Whale of a Crime) conference in Vancouver, British Columbia last week. As stated on the conference’s website, “Left Coast Crime is for fans of the mystery/crime genre: readers, authors, librarians, bloggers, publishers, editors, agents, and booksellers.” We attended …
I’ve been away from the blog for several days, but I’m working on a series of interesting posts that will be up soon. Stay tuned!
I’m not sure how else to say it. When you’ve been writing for a while and all of a sudden your first novel, short story, article, whatever…is selected for publication, things change…in a hurry. Creating a website, Twitter, Instagram, business cards – the list goes on. All those “business side …
I’ve been a fan of trains since I was a kid, and I’ve always wanted to build a model railroad. It’s still on my bucket list. Not sure where, not sure when…but the project is still on the list. I’ve included some photos from the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in Scottsdale. …
At the March 20, 2019, Sisters in Crime Desert Sleuths meeting, I received an award for finishing the “2018 Desert Sleuths Short Story Writing Challenge.” The award signified the completion of twelve short stories, each with a minimum of 5,000 words, during 2018. The idea behind the challenge was to …
If you’re out and about and need a great place to have breakfast, here’s your list. Be prepared, you’ll have to wait for a table. Butterfield’s Pancake House (Scottsdale) Snooze An A.M. Eatery (Phoenix) Matt’s Big Breakfast (Phoenix)
For a baseball fan, living in Phoenix is Nirvana. You have the opportunity to see 15 Major League Baseball teams from both the American and National leagues during two months of Cactus League spring training. When it’s time to start the season, fourteen teams go home, but the Arizona Diamondbacks …
It’s my clumsy way of saying “I like to read mysteries and I like to write mysteries.” The Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald hooked me. Then it was on to the Kinsey Millhone series by Sue Grafton, and continues now with the Longmire series by Craig Johnson. They …
The Last Kind Words Saloon is a quick read, just under two hundred pages, with most chapters requiring only one or two turns of the page to finish. It tells the story of a brief period of the lives of Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp in the fading “Wild West” …
