The true mark of successful storytelling is the ability to hold an audience captive. Miller mastered that art as a child by recounting wild tales to her family who couldn’t escape unless they wanted to forfeit dinner. From that modest beginning, she refined her craft and established a professional writing career, placing feature articles and […]
A Question of Honor Logline A West Texas rancher must come to terms with his son’s homosexuality or lose him forever. Synopsis From the time he was a young boy, Mike O’Leary knew he was different from his father in ways the older man would never understand. He tried to pretend, mask it, and even
Not my usual Friday fare as you can see. I’m a member of Sisters in Crime (SinC) and heard about this fun blogging event from the national headquarters. Throughout the month of September bloggers will be doing a SinC-Up, and I decided to participate. The guidelines are simple, so if you would like to join
With the passing of time, the urgency we all felt that awful September day seems to have waned somewhat. Now we are more focused on the inconveniences of air travel that event spawned than on what we as a nation and a people experienced in the first weeks and months following the terrorist attacks.
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First I want to invite you to visit the Bookbrowsing blog by PJ Nunn, where I am a guest today. I wrote about my experience collaborating on the mystery, Doubletake – the challenges and the fun. Next, I’m excited to share some news from Terry Odell, author of several mystery series. I especially like her
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Girls are notoriously horse-crazy. I know I was as a child. I collected plastic horses and ceramic horses, and the first stories I wrote were about horses. One of the stories won the Scholastic Writing Awards contest when I was 12, and created a writing monster. (smile) I couldn’t have a horse of my own
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A recent article in the Dallas Morning News about taking on too much responsibility by Jonathan Look made me stop and think about the difference between responsibility and “response-ability.” He wrote, “If we have the trappings of success, but through our lack of ‘response-ability’ have eliminated the time to enjoy them, has this pressure made
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Today’s Wednesday’s Guest is Slim Randles, who is here to share the joy of working the soil and planting the seeds and living the farming life. While I haven’t reclined on the ditch grass, I have sat out on a stump and looked at my little farm and breathed that same sigh of contentment. There
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Friends often tell me that I am the world’s worst when it comes to promoting my books, and I’ll admit they are right. I never know exactly how to do it without coming across as the proverbial salesperson with an arm full of books knocking on your door. However, if I don’t ever knock on