Bone Hook, #LeiCrimeSeries 10, is here!

Bone Hook is here, at long last, and it's a doozy! Maui’s ocean is beautiful, wild… and deadly. It’s been five years since the events of Rip Tides, and Sergeant Lei Texeira gets into hot water much deeper than she’s used to at a crime scene ninety feet down off of the...

Skin offerings to the sun god: adventures with skin cancer

Skin offerings to the sun god, as I call my adventures with skin cancer, began early  for me. I was born in the sixties (before the invention of sunscreen) I grew up in Hawaii, and I had red hair—the “trifecta of doom,” as the first of my many dermatologists called...

How to edit quality pulp-speed writing

How to edit quality pulp speed writing begins with a question: is it even possible to have quality “pulp speed writing”  as Dean Wesley Smith so eloquently dubbed it? My previous post was picked up by the writing news aggregator blog, The Passive Voice (if...

How to write at least four novels a year

How to write at least four novels a year is a simple matter of math. People don’t like that answer, and I don’t really either. I want it to be something mystical, magical, something inspired by muses wearing dragonfly wings and wielding lightning bolts of...

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