All my life, I’ve irritated family, friends, and co-workers by incessantly asking, Why? In real crime, the why is left unanswered too many times. My fiction tells the stories of ordinary people driven to commit crimes, especially homicide. You could call them why-dunnits rather than who-dunnits.
Readers have said they stayed up too late because they couldn’t go to sleep until they finished reading my first novel, THE DEMISE OF THE SOCCER MOMS! My second novel, BURIED BY DEBT, is now available as an eBook. One early reader commented that I “make the mundane menacing”.
Psychological suspense meets the supernatural in my novella series featuring Madison Keith. The first two ebooks in the series, FATAL CUT (#1) and SHALLOW WATER (#2), are available for Kindle, Nook, and iBook. The third novella, UNHOLY CHILD, is currently available on Amazon.com only.
My short stories have been published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. My short story, “I Was Young Once” received an honorable mention from Joyce Carol Oates in the 2007 Zoetrope All-story Short Fiction contest.
My flash fiction has been published at Every Day Fiction, at my website under Flash Fiction for the Cocktail Hour. Two pieces were anthologized in The Best of Every Day Fiction Three.
When I’m not writing, I work in high tech, read, and play very high-handicap golf. In the winter I huddle by the fire with a glass of scotch, a bowl of popcorn, a novel, my husband, and two cats.
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
- “A Good Man” – 2010
- “Talking Herself to Death” – 2008
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
- “Cirque du Bohemia” – 2004
- “Peace on Coolidge Drive” – 2002
EveryDayFiction.com
- “The Festering Wound” and “So Lucky” have been anthologized in The Best of Every Day Fiction Three.
- “The Festering Wound” – 6.3.10 – Reader comments, “This story figuratively dropped me to my emotional knees. It took my breath. This is outstanding beyond words”, “a powerful piece”.
- “A Christmas Package” – 12.25.09 – “Great characters and a fine twist!”
- “So Lucky” – 9.25.09 – “Wow. Talk about creating suspense and fear … Great story.”
Hello!
I found your blog through a comment you made on a friend of mine’s blog. I’m starting a blog directory specifically geared towards writers, and was wondering if you’d like to be a part of it. I’ve added the link so you can take a look.
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I like your new pic. And I LOVE the concept of your novel — having been a suburban single working mom in Stepford, desperately wanting to do serious damage to the soccer moms I’d run into (oh, how I wish I had!) at, well, soccer games.
Can hardly wait to read it!
Glad you like the pic, I seem to change it more often than my hair, but I think I’ll stick with this for awhile.
I’m glad the premise intrigues you! Stay tuned.
oh, and by the way, my “new” pic is the first pic I used on line, I’ve come full circle, whatever that means