Shark Bytes and Tales

All four Anastasia Raven mysteries are now available in three volumes as paperbacks! I gave in to the Amazon giant and did this throu...

Bury the Hatchet in Dead Mule Swamp is book four of the Anastasia Raven mysteries. Here's the blurb: Anastasia Raven opens a bo...

I am delighted to be able to say that Bury the Hatchet in Dead Mule Swamp has gone out to my beta readers for this book. What does ...

It's not giving away any big secret to say that the climax of this book occurs at the Harvest Ball. Everything so far has been bu...

I just finished a big scene with Ana, Adele, Mavis Fanning and Virginia Holiday. I think it's one of the best pieces of the book....

I came home from my recent trip with much more of the plot rolling around in my head. I've had quiet, and a low number of other c...

I've written a couple of chapters since updating this blog, and have several more planned in my head. Good long drives are useful...

Things seem to be coming together in my head to make this book flow, but it's really hard to make blocks of time to write with two...

This book is proceeding at the pace of a greased snail. I realize that. I'm hoping at some point my ideas, time, and enthusiasm wi...

This book is looking like it will certainly be the longest in the series so far. The story seems to still be growing in complexity, an...

I haven't made much progress on the newest Anastasia Raven mystery for quite a while. But today I got back on track. Re-read every...

Slowly but surely, this manuscript is progressing. I've been working hard on a chapter-by-chapter "outline" of the plot....

I've had a hard time working on this MS this month, but I'm now up to Chapter 12. I really like this plot, but for some reason...

Chapter 10 is done. This is a transitional chapter, moving the story forward in time and letting the reader know that the initial myst...

Somehow, I never posted the fact that I wrote Chapter 8. Be assured that I did... I did not magically skip from 7 to 9!. In fact, I ...

For some reason, I had a hard time writing this chapter. It didn't feel smooth to me, and because it's a different pace from t...

It's possible there might be some tweaks, but here is the prototype cover for Bury the Hatchet in Dead Mule Swamp. Is it myster...

Sometimes more complex is just that: complicated. This book is the most tangled I've ever tried to write, and sometimes I'm no...

This chapter was fun to write in one way. I've always admired authors like Ngaio Marsh and some others who can handle a whole room...

Chapter four begins to move the story along with a big announcement. But, hey, I'm not going to give that away here! I think my ...