Uncharted Territory

Questions From A Book Club

I recently spoke to a local book club about writing my Mad Max series of mysteries. Their questions were so astute that I wanted to answer some of them here. Hang on. Why did you set Uncharted Territory in post-Katrina Mississippi? Max is entering uncharted territory...

Paying Homage to Anne Lamott’s Shitty First Drafts

Anne Lamott will forever by memorialized (even though she is very much alive) for coining the phrase, “shitty first draft.” That’s the draft where you basically puke everything onto the screen, knowing that many of the words might survive ruthless editing but never...