I dread those darn purple lines

I dread those darn purple lines A few weeks ago, Nan signed me up for Pro Writing Aid.Think Microsoft Word’s grammar and spelling checker on steroids. Missing commas or misspelled words? Easy-peasy… Split infinitives, dangling...

You asked for it!

Book Two in the Ro Delahanty Series is now available. Ro works hard to serve and protect. But now her dad’s in danger, and nothing in her training can defend him… If you like intriguing...

“Hear Evil:” The Teacher of Perfect Disorder

“Hear Evil” The Teacher of Perfect Disorder I have finished formatting the e-book edition of “Hear Evil,” the second Ro Delahanty novel, and am working on formatting the print-on-demand (softcover) edition. Unless a meteor falls...

Thank you, Miss Edwards, and “Black Beauty”

The first great inflection point in my life was fifth grade at Hawthorne-Irving School in Oak Park, Illinois. It was the year I met Miss Edwards and read “Black Beauty.” In that year I moved...

It’s out!

I’m excited to announce the new edition of Ro’s Handle is now live on Amazon as a paperback, in Kindle format and on Kindle Unlimited.

Book Two of the Ro Series
coming soon

The new edition of “Ro’s Handle” should be up on Amazon next week. Now my priority is to get the second book, “Hear Evil,” published by the end of this spring. Here is the “Hear...

Here’s Ro…

When a writer creates a character, they always have a picture of what that character looks like in mind and, of course, tries to describe that character in words so the reader will also have...

The Sniper Incident from Ro’s perspective: Fourteen

Monday, August 20, 2007, 10:20 a.m. “No, you don’t” Spencer agreed. “Here it is in a nutshell: On the one hand, you’re lucky to be alive because you were up against one of the deadliest...

The Sniper Incident from Ro’s perspective: Thirteen

Stone Wall Monday, August 20, 2007, 10 a.m. “Deputy,” Sheriff Ballard said, greeting Ro from in front of his desk in his main office in the courthouse in downtown Lee’s Landing, “this is Cora Spencer....