With the holiday season bearing down on us like a speeding train bound for the North Pole, I want to take a moment to thank my readers for their support and comments. In appreciation of your time spent on this site, I want to offer up a tasty libation guaranteed to juice up your holiday celebration.
Continue reading →This year I was lucky enough to publish my first mystery novel, The Belvedere Club. I’d always invisioned this as the first in a series about Marin County, California, the home of many innovative and prosperous Californians. So my Next Big Thing is to continue the series with book two.
Continue reading →The reason I haven’t updated this blog in the last few weeks is because I’ve been rambling through France. One thing I enjoy doing in France is visiting cemeteries. I love reading the strange names on the plots and examining all the diverse burial plots and mausoleums.
This brings me to my post. What’s in a name?
Continue reading →I write steampunk fantasy romances. You ask what in the world is steampunk? Per the Urban Dictionary, steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate historical setting. In other words, it’s what the past would look like if the future had happened sooner.
Continue reading →Creamy Apple Pie
In honor of the posting of my new short story–The Language of Love–this blog will be dedicated to one of those things I love most in life: Food. This recipe was given to me by a dear friend who lives in Montreal. It has become a favorite of my family. As someone who doesn’t like cooked apples, I have to tell you this pie is delicious.
Back in the late nineties I had succumbed to a friend’s insistent urging to attend a weekend long, soul-searching, rather cultist self-growth retreat in an old Hollywood auditorium where a charismatic man badgered the audience for 48 hours straight allowing no sleep and little food, but promising that each participant would reach down inside and realize their core evasion to life authenticity. Why my friend had singled me out to attend, I did not ask, but I did survived the weekend and come away with some gems.
Well, the 2012 Mystery Writers Conference held at Book Passage in Corte Madera this last week comes as close to that experience as anything I can recall.
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