Every author has their own particular way of approaching a new story; some make a meticulous outline and stick to it. Others have only the vaguest idea of what’s going to happen and just strap in and find out as the characters drive. Mine sits somewhere in between: I tend to know the ultimate outcome […]

During those intense, isolating Covid years, my wife and I watched just about every streaming detective series we could find. Some were riveting, others meh, a few downright boring, but most of them shared one peculiar characteristic: The crime solver–whether a cop, detective, PI, amateur sleuth, male or female–was, one way or another, semi-dysfunctional. They […]

I invented a virus. Fortunately, I did it in a novel. When I started writing The Hellraiser, the third book in my Charlie Martens series, I wanted to take the science a little further than I had in my previous books. I had spent most of my working life as a doctor, so I have […]