I’m so pleased to announce that the second collection featuring my popular characters Spade and Paladin has just hit print! The collection features a brand-new, never-before-seen novella about Spade and Paladin, called “The Case of the Purloined Pages.” If you’ve never read a Spade story before, you have a chance by reading this week’s Free […]
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I read a lot of books in January, but don’t have as many to recommend as I would have thought. I started one bestseller’s novel and quit because I knew exactly where it was going. (I glanced ahead, and yep. On rails.) I read another and was quite irritated because it didn’t do anything new […]
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…to writing this particular novella. I’m not even sure it was supposed to be a novella. (I kinda doubt it.) A book editor of mine, Lou Anders, asked me to take part in an anthology of his. Sideways in Crime is a really good anthology of alternate history crime stories. I was writing something else […]
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…about the title for this novella. The End of the World gets used a lot, and while the title is accurate, kinda sorta, for this piece, it’s not the kind of title that makes you—or even me, the author—go, “Oh, yeah! That story.” Whoops. Not changing it now, though. I promised you all I’d tell […]
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We started a Kickstarter on Tuesday of six of my standalone science fiction novellas. As I mentioned in the first post here on the site, I was a bit stunned to realize how long it had been since we did any discoverability work on any of these novellas. That includes letting you all know what […]
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Yes, yes, this one is late. Yes, it’s filled with December recommendations. The reason it’s late, though, is because I read a lot in December and got behind on recording it. So there’s 3,000 words of recommendations here. And now, you get the introduction I wrote almost 2 months ago… My reading behavior is finally […]
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…on the Hearts Collide Kickstarter. We hit three stretch goals so far, including a special stretch goal that includes an online writing workshop. Thank you, backers!!!! We have a chance of hitting one more stretch goal, which would include one more writing workshop, if we get to 10K before the Kickstarter ends. There’s a slim […]
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…can Kris meet her deadlines over the next two days and manage to write all of the promotional posts she’d planned on? Stay tuned to find out! Here’s the second post on the Hearts Collide Kickstarter. The first post looked at Volume One, which is full of romantic suspense. (The first post also tells you […]
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I had hoped, over the two weeks of the Hearts Collide Kickstarter, to let you know about each book. I had envisioned this as a series of posts, spaced properly, to wet your appetite for the entire Kickstarter. But I was teaching, and my creative voice decided I was going to finish the book I […]
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine just published my newest mystery novelette. “Arboretum Heights” focuses on the murder of a rather unpleasant person in a university town filled with people who dislike the man intensely. So on that level, the story is a classic. Unlikable victim, lots of suspects. But of course, I figured out how to […]
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