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: 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. …
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 ; VARIOUS LIBRARY SERVICES I admit that the ending of my story “Short-Term Murder” in issue #88 of Black Cat Weekly may include wishful thinking. The plot of the story revolves around a murder in a short-term vacation rental in a neighborhood. Two …
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: AMAZON ; BLACK CAT WEEKLY ; The fact that the victim in my story entitled “Merry Library Murder” is a librarian is not a sign of hidden hostility or wishful thinking. Rather, the opposite is true. I set the story in a library because I spend a lot …
PURCHASE LINK: BLACK CAT WEEKLY ; AMAZON “Serenity, Courage, Wisdom” is a crime fiction short story set in New Orleans. The title is inspired by a prayer that my parents had on the wall in their kitchen. The story features a medical student named Flor faced with the loss of …
