The Writer's Blog

I saw a cardinal outside my window this morning, in between rain showers. It's spring in Chicago, which mostly means wild temperature fluctuations---frustrating cold mingled with days of hope. Spri...

Other than a disastrous election in November, 2024 wasn't a bad year. I published a book, Clean Kill, got elected to the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America, wrote reviews for the ...

Autumn has just begun, and like so many others, it makes me feel like starting something new. And that's just what I'm going to do, as soon as I make up my mind whether to write the next in the Nic...

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 sprin...

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 ...