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Spring Book Release
Mar 30, 2024 by
Happy Spring! In Chicago we always fall prey to false springs where we enjoy beautiful weather for a day or so and then get hit by temperatures in the 30s again. Rinse and repeat. Speaking of spring, my new mystery novel, Clean Kill, is being released on May 14. Here’s a blurb:Home to ten newly recovering alcoholics, Olive Street House is a safe haven in their bewilderingly new sober lives. But when one of the residents is murdered, Resident Manager Nicky Sullivan, a former Chicago homicide d...
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Two new books
Dec 9, 2023 by
We're at the end of the year again. They keep whipping by, faster and faster with every year. 2023 was an interesting one for me. I traveled some, did volunteer work, and, most notably, reinvented myself as a writer. Let me explain.
In September Linda and I traveled to Switzerland to stay with dear friends who live there part of the year. We were on Lake Geneva, near Lausanne. It was a wonderful trip, the highlight of which was the day hiking in the Alps. It was truly stunning. We also managed...
Wyoming Residency
Jun 11, 2022 by
Tomorrow I'll be returning home after a wonderful two week residency in Dayton, Wyoming called the Tongue River Artist Residency. I had a house to myself, a car to drive, and I met some of the friendliest people imaginable. The scenery here is just astounding. I quickly set up a schedule of working on my book until early afternoon and then hiking or sight seeing. I managed to get a ton done on the book and I got to know this area. It's the kind of place where you search on Zillow to see if it...
Money Creek Book Launch
Sep 27, 2020 by
My latest novel, Money Creek, has been officially launched into the world. Now comes the hard part – waiting to hear what readers and reviewers think of it. Over the course of my writing career, my skin has thickened a hundred fold. In the beginning, any critical comment about my writing would send me into paroxysms of self-doubt. Now I read reviews with
interest but not the attachment I once had. I realized it wasn’t personal, that my work is not me, and part of the point of creativity is in...
Money Creek
Mar 26, 2020 by
I have a new book coming out called Money Creek. It doesn't have anything to do with money. I saw a sign saying "Money Creek' by the road side as I drove around central Illinois. I loved the sound of it. A little research revealed the creek was named after the founder of a nearby town, Robert Money. I knew it was perfect for my new novel about a woman who moves downstate from Chicago to try to sort out her thoroughly messed up life.
Anyway, the book will appear mid-September of this year, prov...
Anyway, the book will appear mid-September of this year, prov...