Cover Time!

I LOVE the cover of Death in the Haunted Wood and couldn’t wait to share it with you. Well, okay, I did have to wait, at least… until my publisher got to show it off first. The wait is over, and I hope you love this cover as much as I do. What do I…

A Matter of Taste

I’m thinking about book reviews right now as the first books in my cozy mystery series publish. Reviews are coming in for Murder in Last Chance Cove and most have enough stars to make me grin. I love finding consensus on what readers who’ve taken time to write reviews think I’ve done well. I learn…

Spooktacular Preview!

Just a few carefully chosen musical notes… that’s all it takes to conjure a haunted vibe. A few words can do the same. The next book in my Pacific Northwest Cozy Mystery series counts down to a Halloween Spooktacular at a “haunted” RV park carved out of blackberry brambles and gooseberry bushes by an aging…

Weird Wasps

A few weeks ago, a friend told me about an incident at a picnic on the Northwest Pacific coast. Just after he and his friends sat down to enjoy the hotdogs they’d grilled, unwanted guests showed up. Yellow jackets. No amount of shooing would deter the black-and-yellow buzzers and before long there were more wasps…