Here in Corinth, even though the temperature hovers above 90 degrees, there is a feel of fall in the air. Temperatures drop after dark…something I was very happy about last Thursday night when I returned home to discover my air conditioner had quit working! For the first time in at least twenty years, I slept with my windows up and …
Stranger Than Fiction
The opening scene in the first Natchez Ranger book is set at Windsor Ruins. The Windsor plantation home was built between 1859 and 1861 and has a tragic history. Builder Smith Daniell died two weeks after moving in and during the Civil War, a Union soldier was shot in the front doorway. Then in February 1890, a guest left a lit …
More Dumb Criminals
It’s hard to believe summer is coming to a close…school has been in session here for three weeks…I can remember when we didn’t return to school until after Labor Day! I’m finally getting my head back into the first Natchez book after the bathroom remodel – didn’t write anything for six weeks. And Christmas will be here in 129 days! …
How Dumb Can They Be?
Whew! Edits are in for Justice Delivered as of yesterday afternoon at 4:08! Of course, there will be more when the editor that I affectionately call the plausibility police gets hold of it. 🙂 Seriously, my editors are great! They make my books better every time. Now onto last week’s Mystery Question: A seventy-one-year-old man, well-liked by all, was found dead a block from …
A Crime to Solve
It’s been an interesting week getting back into my house. But I am really enjoying having order around me. Have you ever noticed how great that is? Now to just keep it that way. 🙂 Now for last week’s crime: Three of the following reports from the police blotter are true. One is not. Can you guess which one I …
Bathroom Reveal and Reports from the Police Blotter
FINALLY! My bathroom remodel is complete! And here are the before and after photos. First the guest bathroom, which previously was the largest. It had a small entry hall that I took in. Now the remodel: And now for the bathroom off my bedroom. First the before: This was taken from the doorway. I could stand at the sink and …
Can Criminals Get Any Dumber?
After seven weeks, my bathrooms are almost finished, and I’m back home! I spent Saturday waxing and buffing my hardwood floors, and Sunday after church I started putting things back where they go. It may take a day or two for that! 🙂 Since I don’t have mirrors or towel bars up yet, it’ll be next week before I show …
From the Police Blotter
I don’t know how you spent your Saturday, but I spent an hour and a half of mine at the lodge pictured below listening to a very interesting seminar on poisons native to Mississippi. (Can you see where this is going?) Did you know some of the most common plants around us are very poisonous? Like White Snakeroot. Apparently, Abraham Lincoln’s mother …
Can Criminals Get Any Dumber?
BREAKING NEWS! Justice Betrayed was chosen as a Fresh Pick by Fresh Fiction. This is HUGE! since the Fresh Pick is chosen by a group of readers and is never a purchased advertisement or promotion…read more here! Now back to our regularly scheduled post… Last Saturday afternoon was a pleasant 87 degrees with low humidity, rare for North Mississippi in July, and my …
HaPpY DaNcInG Around Here!
Well, I can finally announce that Justice Buried is a finalist for the ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) Carol award! The winner will be announced at the gala at the ACFW conference September 23, but no matter the outcome, being a finalist is already winning. If the award is in God’s plan for me, then good! But if not, good, too. …