It was a dark and stormy night… No that’s stupid. Every damn dumb novel starts that way. It’s gotta be better than that. Suddenly, the lights went out. Great, now I’m starting in the middle of the action. There’s no backstory. It makes no sense. The reader can’t follow it. The opening line is theContinue reading “Rewrite”
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A View to Murder
It was a horrific sight. While having a Martini Monday happy hour chat with her friend Ramona, Carol and her friend’s laughter quickly faded to screams. Ramona’s husband was difficult, to be generous. He was the star football player she swooned over in high school and they married young. But during her medical school training,Continue reading “A View to Murder”
The Case of the Deadly Dreams
Night 1 There he was laying on the kitchen floor. Next to him was the cast iron frying pan. But what happened? Who could have done this? I was sleeping; did I hear something? Barefooted, I ran toward the front door in my nightgown. It was still locked. Confused, I scurried around the house lookingContinue reading “The Case of the Deadly Dreams”