Writing

This post originally appeared on the Roses of Prose blog. Don't you just love the various questions we get from our readers? Where do you get your ideas? What is your favorite book? What is your favorite character? Are you in any of your books? I think we are all in...

Have you ever sat in a coffee house or bar and watched how people sit or stand when they talk with each other? I love watching the gestures, facial expressions, set of the shoulders--anything that makes me think the people want to talk and listen to each other....

My newest book, Eyes Without A Face, releases in October. Unlike anything I've written before, it's from inside the mind of a psychopath. Here's a teaser: No matter what anyone says, I wasn’t born a serial killer. I don’t carry a sociopath gene, a psychopath gene, or...

Late last year, I shared a short story here called "Toad." Set in the high desert of Southern California, it was the tale of an imaginative little boy in the late 1950s. To be a free-range kid in those days was heaven, because Toad could go anywhere but toward the...