I had fun discussing Creating Characters with a panel of mystery authors for the the Pflugerville library. After talking about how we create characters, we played “Two Truths and A Lie.” Click Here to watch the panel. My two truths and a lie are below. Can you guess which is …
PURCHASE LINK: My short crime story set in the future entitled “The Wrong Side of History” came out in the October 2021 issue of After Dinner Conversation. After Dinner Conversation is a magazine that prints short stories that provoke deeper ethical and philosophical discussions. The magazine will provide discussion questions to …
PURCHASE LINK: AMAZON The team from Bad Vibes Removal Services is back in six new short paranormal mysteries featuring murder, theft, arson, and ghosts in towns across Texas! Quirky historian Lea, who loves to try hairstyles from ancient civilizations and has always been able to see ghosts, enjoys working with …
Available to purchase from: Amazon, Books2Read, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple, and others The Bad Vibes Removal Services crew returns to solve murders and neutralize unpleasant emotional atmosphere in a second collection of three short stories: Therapeutic Vibes, Repetitive Vibes, and Island Vibes. These stories follow chronologically after the novel …
Available for purchase from Amazon, Books2Read, and others Walls are no longer mute witnesses thanks to Montgomery’s inventions. Murder victims regain their voices with Lea’s help. Together, Lea and Montgomery can solve any murder. When Montgomery calls Lea and her colleague Kamika to help him analyze the scene of a …
Available for purchase from AMAZON, BOOKS2READ, etc. Young Henry was perfect: perfectly average, perfectly normal. Why did he need to be categorized in school? In this dark, dystopian short story, large scale individualized education misfires for the minority who are merely average. Read a preview and purchase Pariah here.
Available for purchase from AMAZON, BOOKS2READ, and others In this mystery short story set in the near future, multiple bioterror attacks have changed the face of the planet. New laws protect the public from the malicious spread of disease. When customers at a small-town, Texas grocery fall ill with a …
PURCHASE LINKS: BLACK CAT WEEKLY ; AND FROM BOOKS2READ AND AMAZON (AS A STAND-ALONE STORY) Pete Lincoln, a private detective out of place and time because of a fifteen-year coma, is struggling to stay solvent. In a world where even the most intimate acts are visible to everyone and where …
