My Life
Off the deck and into the wild–Call of the Canyon.
Off the deck and into the wild—Call of the Canyon If there’s one hike you do in Arizona, let it be the North Fork Trail or “Call of the Canyon” off Highway 89 out of Sedona. Yes, folks, it’s long. We did close to seven miles before we turned around and could have gone...
Off the deck and into the wild: Sedona
Off the deck and into the wild—Sedona Day Six (or is it seven?) May 13, 2013 Perhaps we overdid it yesterday, or perhaps it was seafood fettucine late at night, but I woke up not feeling well and with the mysterious rash I’d gone to the doctor for just before we left,...
Off the deck and into the wild–driving for 8 hours.
Day 6- Mother’s Day May 12, 2013 (yes, my kids both called. I was so happy to hear them. And we called our mothers, too. ) Off the deck and into the wild--driving for 8 hours. I’ve come to the conclusion that women with straight hair have it the best on an extended...
Off the deck and into the wild–Yosemite travel day.
(Here are all the streams and rivers I fished in the last two days, making the most of my 22 dollar fishing license. I got one strike and no fish. Mike caught two. This is par for the course)...
Off the deck and into the wild- YOSEMITE
Off the deck and into the wild- Yosemite. Day Three, 5/9/2013 late afternoon STORM! My maiden voyage driving the rental SUV to the one location in the park with Internet (you mean, this...
Off the deck and into the wild
Off the deck and into the wild. It has a ring to it. Mike and I are off on thirty days of National Park exploration. Neither of us have ever done this, though Mike says this is "the road most traveled" it's new for us and thus, thrilling. I'm calling this travel...
The Beauty Venture: water pattern.
The Beauty Venture: water patterns Water patterns have enchanted me for awhile. Here are some images from my last few years of collecting pictures of water. It almost...
My Writing
#Writing fast and hard
Writing fast and hard is how I roll. People ask me how I can do so many books in a year—by the end of 2014 I will have written five (not all in print yet.) I tell them this: writing is like a muscle, and the more you use it the stronger it gets. Many people are...
Writing a great multi-book love story in any genre
I’m writing a great multi-book love story, and it’s not in the romance genre. Writing is an evolution, a gradual reveal of all we will become as authors, and when I first started the Lei Crime Series with Blood Orchids, I knew I wanted to write about a damaged,...
Emily Kimelman Unleashed!
Emily Kimelman is unleashed! With a bestselling line of distinctively-branded female-sleuth-with-dog books, she's putting her Sidney Rye mystery series on the map. Every now and again, I pick up a book and go," AHA. This is a book and author my readers will enjoy!"...
Dark Lava, Lei Crime #7, is here!
Dark Lava by Toby Neal is here! This one's a doozy, folks! Comments from Advance Copy Readers are dominated by "WOW, I didn't see that coming!" Here's a few quotes: "Another awesome page turner! Loved it. WOW the turns this took, I was getting dizzy. Bottom line -...
Top #Indie Blogs to #Follow
I have a simple criteria for a blog I really love: I get it in my email inbox. In fairness, some of these folks are “hybrids” with both indie and trad pub writing…but they are all worth keeping up with, for different reasons. These Top Indie Blogs to Follow are gems...
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