Madness Made in Mayhem, Book 2 of the Grit & Grace Mystery series will be released on October 15. Hip hip, hooray! Only a three-month wait since Match Made in Mayhem, Book 1 released. But some readers have been saying HURRY UP! I typed as fast as I could! A three month interval is perfect. Unless I wrote a madman (kinda like what I did). ME: Grab Match Made in Mayhem so you're all caught up. That's only a small yet shameless plug. A preview: “Every contact leaves a trace. Sometimes the...

Yes, I own these. Great for boxes. For an early book which included hand-to-hand combat, I decided I needed to know how to throw a knife if I was going to write it effectively. (This is what all tell ourselves, by the way.) This was research. That is what writers call questionable decisions when we want them to sound professional. First, let me preface it with Just How Badly Things Went (yes, it could have been worse). Years back, my mother knew well about the longstanding sibling rivalry my...

Fascination with forensics led me from examining cremated chicken to fingerprinting. Fingerprinting required concentration. Concentration required silence. In my house, silence meant midnight. So sometime around midnight, I started dusting for prints in the kitchen. I printed everything. Everything. Glasses. Appliances. Counters. Handles. Doors. Anything that looked remotely capable of harboring a fingerprint became evidence. By the time I finished, it was far too late to clean up my mess. Or...