I’m back with more questions from blog readers. While I try to answer all questions individually, I also share some here occasionally. Q. In your Author Spotlight, you ask people if they are a plotter or a pantster, and I’ve also heard them refer to being a planster. I keep trying to figure out what […]
Well, another one is done! Yesterday afternoon, the e-book of Big Lake Homecoming went live on Amazon. I had hoped to have it out before now, but one of my proofreaders, Roberta, has been out of commission for a while. The book came in at just over 75,000 words, not counting front matter and the […]
I have been busy getting things done for the release of my latest book, Big Lake Homecoming. After Terry edited and proofread the last chapters, I sent them off to Judy and Roberta to go through. I got Judy’s back and made her suggested corrections, and now I am waiting for Roberta’s. I hope to […]
I had a self-imposed deadline of June 30th to finish my latest book, Big Lake Homecoming. I was on track to get that done, but then we got an unexpected call Tuesday morning from our primary care provider at Premier Mountain Healthcare asking Terry to come to their office to go over the results of […]
Arizona’s official monsoon season starts today, and I definitely think it’s here. We had light rain off and on all day Saturday and again yesterday. Not a deluge by any means, but definitely the start of something. It was enough that we didn’t have to water the plants or the clover, and I’m not complaining […]
We were up at 7 a.m. yesterday morning, which is much earlier than usual for us, because we had an appointment at 8 with a termite inspector. We are paying the mortgage down with the proceeds from our home sale in Alabama and refinancing our house here, and the inspection was part of the process. […]
I have been busy cranking out a couple of thousand words a day on my new Big Lake book while Terry has been occupied with bookkeeping, household tasks, and all the other things she does to keep our home and business running smoothly. So yesterday I declared it was an “us day,” and we were […]
Yesterday evening I finished Debt Collector, the 14th book in my John Lee Quarrels series about a small-town Florida deputy. I started writing the book on January 12th and finished March 14th, which was two months and two days. Of course, I didn’t write every one of those days because we have a life, and […]
Sometime after I posted last night’s blog around midnight our time, the print edition of Big Lake Parolee became available on Amazon. Several fans of the Big Lake small town mystery series have already purchased their copies. Long time reader Bernard Wulan wrote to tell me that even though he buys the e-book of a […]
It took longer than I had planned to get my newest book, Big Lake Parolee, uploaded to Amazon yesterday. That was partially my fault because I didn’t realize I had saved the final corrected file in a different place on my computer and was trying to work with the previous version, some of which had […]
Thanks to a tremendous amount of work by Terry, Judy, and Roberta, I’m going to make my goal of having my newest book, Big Lake Parolee, out by the end of the year. Roberta sent me her suggested changes for the last chapter yesterday morning, and by the end of the day, I had them […]
Big Lake Mystery Series Wherever you are and whatever you’re doing, I hope you are safe, healthy, and with people you love. That’s about the best Christmas gift anybody could ever get. I gave myself a Christmas present yesterday. I finished Big Lake Parolee, the 27th book in my Big Lake mystery series about a […]
It was hard to drag myself out of my warm bed yesterday morning to greet the chilly day. But a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do, right? As I always say about such things, “You can make me do it, but you can’t make me like it.” After taking Alli outside […]
In yesterday’s blog I said I would probably goof off most of the day before starting to work on my new Big Lake book this week. And true to my word, I didn’t do much. But I did manage to keep myself busy enough, anyway. The day started with a bunch of e-mails, including one […]
It’s been a whirlwind of frenzied activity around our place this weekend as we have been working hard to get everything finished so I could publish Baby Boom on Amazon. We almost made it yesterday. We were close, but we all know that close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. When Terry finally knocked […]
I spent some more time on the telephone with T Mobile’s customer service yesterday, and after getting switched back and forth to a couple of different techs, I finally found someone who could explain what the problem was with our terribly slow service in this area. It appears that two out of the three towers […]
As I said in yesterday’s blog, Terry’s mother has been having some health issues and we didn’t want to leave Arizona until we knew what the status was on them. We got a call after her doctor’s appointment yesterday morning letting us know things look good for now, so we prepared to get on the […]
Our week in the Apache Junction area was over, and yesterday morning we spent some time with Terry’s parents, Pete and Bess Weber, before we headed back up to the high country of the White Mountains to see my daughter and her family again before we start our trek back to Alabama. We were in […]
The LaQuinta Inn where we stayed Tucumcari, New Mexico had one of the nicest rooms we’ve ever had. Unfortunately, the people in the room next to us were a bunch of loud party animals who were still going at it at midnight, and started up again just after 7 yesterday morning. In spite of that, […]
More years ago than I care to remember, I had a birthday coming up and told Miss Terry I was going to hit the double nickels, 55 years old. Terry corrected me and told me I was already 55, and the next day I would turn 56. I didn’t believe her and had to check […]