Confessions of a Contest Judge
Recently, I judged entries in several writing contests. In my pre-pub days I entered several contests, and though I never won, I learned...
DARPA? ... What?
DARPA - have you heard of it? It stands for: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. If you haven't heard of them, you might have...
How My Writing Changed My Views
I enjoy setting my mysteries in the Roaring Twenties, because no other decade offers more chaos and crime than the 1920s. This was the...
The Lure of Foreign Locations for the Mystery Genre
Some of my favorite authors of mystery/romance/suspense/thriller/crime novels write about and/or live in foreign countries. Give me a...