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Summer Camp
My daughter and I still have a home phone in addition to our cells, but Jess has fully employed the “Caller Blocked” function. Besides that, we keep the sound off unless we’re expecting a call from the plumber, for instance. So we rarely hear the phone ring. Occasionally, a man starts talking to us out…
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FREE MYSTERY SHORT
Two Birthdays An Old Kansas City Story The office door opening that afternoon startled Minty Wilcox and she almost looked up to see who it was. But then she thought, I’d better keep my head down and look busy. It won’t do for Mr. Mathison to catch me reading a mystery novel when I’m supposed…
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The Father of My Child
Right now I’m putting together a collection of Calendar Mystery short stories that go before, between or after the first three novels in the series. These books, January Jinx, Fatal February, and Mischief in March, feature business girl Minty Wilcox and dashing detective Daniel Price from newly met to newly wed and beyond in Kansas…
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International Women’s Day: Strong Women in Fiction
Recently, I was with a group of women fiction writers, and someone mentioned International Women’s Day on March 8, 2018. The authors at this meeting realized we all write about strong women. So to celebrate the occasion this year, each of us agreed to post an excerpt from our writing featuring one of our strong…
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The Art of Rewriting Fiction
Right now I’m working on a new short story called “The 9th Street Gang,” part of my calendar mystery series set in Kansas City starting in January 1899. Here’s the cover for the story that about twenty of my friends and kin helped me with. Now I’m revising the story itself. And it’s taking me…
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I’m a winner!
Here I am, looking properly smug for completing my #NaNoWriMo2017 project, a very rough first draft of The Spoils of War, a mythic fantasy novel.