Category: Novels
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Chosen Family
I’m about a quarter of the way through my holiday story featuring Rosie Frankenhoffer and it dawned on me just how completely her personality has taken over the narrative. Like all of my characters, I have a pretty extensive backstory on our favorite millionaire author, one that is surprisingly full of tasty tidbits that generally…
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Christmas in September
I’m still on my self-imposed writing wrist break, but that hasn’t stopped me from thinking about what I want to create once my enforced vacation ends. While much of that rumination has been around the Sean Colbeth book I’m planning on starting next month, an idea for a holiday story featuring Dr. Rosalia Frankenhoffer (a…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Geology
I’m about three-quarters of the way through writing Bliss, the next novel in the Vasily Korsokovach Investigates series. It’s been a fun experience so far — the story has moved along at an amazingly good clip, with great combinations of personal moments for Vasily interspersed with an intriguing case that, per usual, keeps him on…
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Unforced Errors
It’s probably not a surprise to learn that I’m something of a perfectionist when it comes to my writing. I’ve got all sorts of rules that I adhere to; most were the result of courses I took in high school or college (i.e. all paragraphs must have a minimum of three sentences), but several developed…
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On Weddings
As is customary for me in April, I’ve begun crafting the next novel in the Vasily Korsokovach series. Tentatively titled Bliss, it picks up literally a day after the final events in Aftermath, and as you might infer from the title, it just happens to be the story where — at long last — Vas…