Today I am at the American Christian Fiction Writers conference in Nashville so I may be a little slow getting back to your comments. I recently read Brandilyn Collins’ book Over the Edge, and I’m here to tell you, I could not put it down! Here’s the back cover copy and then I’ll be back to tell you why I liked …
Reader Friday ~ Cold Case Cover-Up
Today’s book comes from Love Inspired Suspense from one of my favorite authors – fellow Mississippian Virginia Vaughn. Here’s the back cover copy: She’ll risk everything to uncover her past The first thrilling Covert Operatives tale An infant is believed to have been murdered thirty years ago—but investigative journalist Dana Lang is convinced she’s that baby. Now someone’s willing to kill to stop …
Stupid or Just Plain Dumb?
I am celebrating! I just hit 20,000 words in my new book I am tentatively naming Nachez Standoff. That is almost a quarter done. 🙂 It usually takes me this many words to figure out my characters, and this morning I sat down and wrote out their goals, motivation, and conflict. I.AM.EXCITED because writing the first draft is like pulling teeth …
Murder or Something Else?
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 …
Reader Friday ~ The Coroner
This past week I read The Coroner by Jennifer Graeser Dornbush and I’m here to tell you, it’s a great book. Jennifer is the daughter of a medical examiner whose office was in their home. She investigated her first death, an airplane crash when she was eight. Here’s the back cover copy of The Coroner. My thoughts afterward: Summoned from her promising …
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 …
Reader Friday ~ Flowers from Afghanistan
Last week I read the best book! Flowers From Afghanistan by Suzy Parish opened my eyes on many levels…but first, the back cover copy then my thoughts: Weighed down by guilt following the death of his two-year-old son, Mac McCann accepts a year-long position training police officers in Afghanistan. Leaving his wife Sophie to grieve alone, he hopes the life-or-death …
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! …
Reader Friday ~ Eternity Between Us
This week I’m reviewing a book I wrote an endorsement for: Eternity Between Us by Stephenia H. McGee. Here’s the back cover copy and then my thoughts: Two hearts. Two sides..and a gulf between them as deep and wide as eternity. After being forced to use a pistol against invaders, Evelyn Mapleton is no longer the timid girl her extended family …
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 …