The View From My Mountaintop

The biggest drawback to a writer’s success is fear. Fear of criticism from one’s peers or condemnation from the general public. Fear of neg...

I’ve rewritten a first chapter many times before progressing to the second, only to find that it had to be rewritten again to fall in the l...

While I was researching the criminal mind, I came across the narcissistic personality disorder, which I thought would conger up a great vi...

1. Never open a book with weather. If it’s only to create atmosphere, and not a character’s reaction to the weather, you don’t want to go on...

I’m one of those writers who fills the page with dialogue rather than narrative because dialogue is my forte. Those of us with an ear for ac...

by William Shepard Mysteries have always appealed to me, from the Sherlock Holmes stories that I devoured as a teenager to the Raymon...

by  Marja McGraw Jean asked me what inspired the personalities in the book, and this is the short version. One of my favorite au...