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: 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 LINK: CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT The 1970s! Disco! Abba! The Eagles! Richard Nixon. The end of the Vietnam War. Women’s Rights. And, umm, yeah, other stuff. I was born mid-decade and have no real memories of the 1970s. Writing about the 1970s, for me, isn’t a matter of “write …
PURCHASE LINK: BLACK CAT WEEKLY ; AMAZON; find it also on various library ebook services My story entitled “A Matter of Trust” was published in Black Cat Weekly #110 on October 8, 2023, via editor Michael Bracken. The story features genetic genealogy private investigator Maya Laster who first appeared in …
PURCHASE LINK: BLACK CAT WEEKLY ; AMAZON ; Submitting short stories to markets and getting the right story in the hands of the right editor at the right publisher to fit with other stories in a given anthology or magazine is like tossing dice. Or maybe I’m throwing proverbial spaghetti …
PURCHASE LINK: CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT In 2020, I came across a call for submissions for mystery short stories to be included in an anthology. The anthology was to be called Groovy Gumshoes: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties. The editor, Michael Bracken, wanted stories set in the 1960s featuring …
PURCHASE LINK: AMAZON ; BOOKSHOP.ORG Print ; BOOKSHOP.ORG ebook ; Barnes & Noble ; and many other sites I have a story in Crimeucopia: Say What Now? entitled “Reaching for the Moon.” What’s it about? An anonymous astronaut in the Apollo program wanders from Houston to Galveston and gets himself …
