Author: Chris Jansmann
-
-
Returning to Windeport
Ah, Fall! Since 2019, late August has become the gateway into autumn for me, mostly because it’s when I begin thinking about the next story in the Sean Colbeth series. If you’ve been following along with me for a while now, you’ll know that his first book — Blindsided — was written during the annual…
-
Best Laid Plans
It’s not the sort of text message you want to get, especially when it comes a scant two days ahead of your annual sojourn to all things Star Trek. But when my friend’s message chimed into existence on my phone at an unexpected hour, I didn’t need the services of any of my detectives to…
-
Prepare A Landing Party
Ah, August! That can only mean one thing: time for my buddy and I to pack up our Starfleet uniforms and make our annual sojourn to Las Vegas for STLV (formerly know as the Official Star Trek convention). This year, we’re celebrating the 60th anniversary of the show, with actors and writers and anyone else…
-
Fútbol
Like most of the world, I’ve been glued to the World Cup this summer. I’ve mentioned before that soccer — or, as Alejandro would patiently point out to me, fútbol — was one of the core sports I messed around with as a kid; that experience learning how to play gave me an appreciation for…
-
Pathways
One of my favorite poems is the classic The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. I’ve read it so many times over the years, the words have come to feel like good friends who visit often, friends of the sort you share a hot cup of coffee with while curled up on a couch, chatting…
-
Bliss(fully) Done
As much as I love my characters — and I truly do — it’s been a few books now since I felt so wrapped up in the story, the words just flowed like the proverbial river to the sea. I think the last one to do that was Vengeance; after Suzanne swerved in a direction…
-
Let’s Make Whoopie (Pies)
One of my favorite activities when visiting with family back in Maine is feasting on local food that I simply cannot find here in Tucson. I mean, yes, I can get fairly good lobster and shrimp and scallops; at the risk of demeaning some fine local establishments, what they serve is just not the same…
-
Adventure Unlocked
After ten days visiting my family back East, I’ve returned to Arizona in the middle of our first triple-digit heatwave of the summer. Talk about whiplash! While the weather in Maine was beautiful, it was a tad more humid than I would have expected for early June; my memories of early summer are nearly three…
-
Vacation Beckons
I’m headed out of town for a few weeks, so the blog will be quiet for a bit. It’s my usual recharge-the-batteries visit with family still living back in Maine, something I always look forward to each year. In an incredible case of coincidental timing, my friends from California are actually there now and leave…