PURCHASE LINK: BOOKSHOP.ORG, AMAZON, BARNES & NOBLE, AND OTHERS Crimeucopia: The Not So Frail Detective Agency was published in December by Murderous Ink Press. Editor John Connor selected my story “Disappearance of an Easy Lover” to be included in this anthology! The story features my genetic genealogy detective Maya Laster …
PURCHASE LINK: AMAZON ; BLACK CAT WEEKLY ; Also available via various library ebook services, “The Case of the Dead Man’s Daughter” was selected by editor Michael Bracken for publication in Black Cat Weekly issue #242 in April. This story features my genetic genealogy private investigator, Maya Laster, in her fourth case. She …
PURCHASE LINK: BLACK CAT WEEKLY ; AMAZON, ALSO available via library ebook services Meet my newest character, Cleo Jimenez, a former Marine, former police officer, and now Dallas-based private investigator. “Mirror Life Meltdown,” in Black Cat Weekly #255, is Cleo’s first published appearance, but not the first story I wrote …
PURCHASE LINKS: AMAZON ; BARNES & NOBLE ; BOOKS2READ, AND OTHERS I have a short story in the new anthology Detectives, Sleuths, and Nosy Neighbors III from Inkd Publishing entitled “The Assassination Game.” This is one of the few stories I’ve written that has been partially inspired by real events …
PURCHASE LINKS: BOOKSHOP.ORG, BOOKS2READ, BARNES & NOBLE, AND OTHERS Another one of my ghost stories is rolling out right now, too. “A Lonely Death” is coming out in an anthology of spooky stories from Inkd Publishing called Noncorporeal II. Those who ordered the anthology from the Kickstarter should be receiving …
PURCHASE LINKS: BLACK CAT WEEKLY, AMAZON, I started reading ghost stories as a child and enjoyed the chill that the best of them sent up my spine. I began writing ghost stories, with a sci-fi and mystery twist, almost ten years ago when I wrote my first Bad Vibes Removal …
PURCHASE LINKS: AMAZON, BOOKSHOP.ORG, BARNES & NOBLE, AND OTHERS Here in Texas over four hundred people have contracted measles in the past few months, resulting in the death of at least one child. Most of these cases were preventable with a vaccine. So why weren’t the victims immunized? Some are …
PURCHASE LINK: BOOKS2READ, BOOKSHOP.ORG, BARNES & NOBLE, AND OTHERS As I have written in other blog posts, I am fortunate in that I have access to a great deal of my family history, thanks mostly to my father, the family genealogist. I am lucky that relatives collected stories, wrote them …
READ FOR FREE LINK: REDNECK PRESS “Predators and Prey” was selected by Editor Steph Cha for the “Other Distinguished Mystery and Suspense of 2024” List in Best American Mystery and Suspense 2025! I have a couple short stories in the works set in the piney woods around the Houston area. …
PURCHASE LINK: BLACK CAT WEEKLY ; AMAZON ; ALSO available via library ebook services As some readers may already know, my husband is from Ecuador. I met him when we were both students at the University of Texas at Austin. Most of my husband’s extended family still lives in Ecuador. …
