Even though it’s still in the 80s during the daytime here in Arizona’s White Mountains, the wildlife have their own internal calendar. Saturday night, I heard elk bugling. If you’ve never heard the eerie sound of a bull elk challenging other bulls for dominance and summoning cows for mating, it’s a haunting experience. You wouldn’t […]
In yesterday’s blog, I told you that one of the most important tools a writer can have is butt glue so you can glue your butt to your chair and sit down at your computer and write. I used a lot of butt glue yesterday. I started the day by answering a bunch of emails […]
I have been working hard on Debt Collector, my new John Lee Quarrels mystery novel, and as of now, I am almost to the halfway point in the book. I am averaging from 2,500 to 3,000 words a day. On some days, I’ve gotten as many as 5,000 words in, thanks to using my Plaud […]
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 […]
Are you ready for Christmas yet? Have you done all your shopping? Are all your gifts wrapped? If not, you’d better get a move on because you’re almost out of time. We’ve got all of our shopping done, and the other day Terry was busy wrapping presents for everybody. Now we just have to wait […]
I missed a couple of days of writing because we had medical and veterinary appointments on Tuesday and Wednesday, but I was back at it yesterday. I started out by making all the changes that Terry had suggested to the latest eight chapters of my new book, Big Lake Parolee. After I finished that, I […]