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Getting Blasted by the Past

I found this blog post from 2014! It’s funny what things can drag you back into the past. I hear Bad Moon Rising and I’m back in high school in a happy way, but today I clicked on a video (of a PE coach trying to force a female student into the swimming pool) and…

When It’s Good to Have a Nightmare

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Continuing my “blog posts you may have missed” series for October (with an emphasis on thriller suspense!), here’s a “why I wrote post” from 2013! Sometimes I’ll read a book or see a movie and wish I’d written it. It is part of the fun (for me) of being a reader and a writer.…

Tech Changed the Location

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I originally planned to set The Last Enemy in New Orleans, but the technology I wanted (public access to the internet) wasn’t available in the public libraries when I was writing the book. Yes, it was that long ago (the book originally released in 1999!). I did some searching and found Denver, Colorado libraries had…

Perilous Pauline is (Fictionally) Adventurous

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I am very (fictionally) adventurous. One of the great things about being an author is that you get to take virtual journeys with your characters. Note that they are virtual, and to those who ask if my characters are like me, the correct answer would be that they are waaay braver than I am. But…