History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. ~John le Carre A few years ago, when I had a newsletter giveaway, I had a special drawing for those who said …
The Last Mystery Is Solved
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you who made this Mystery Photo Game so much fun. You all have the best imaginations. No wonder you love to read and turn those story words into movies in your heads. I admit …
And the Mysteries Are Solved
Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed. — Brian Rathbone And so once again the Mystery Photo Game draws to a close. I hope you had fun. I did although I had a monumental failure of making a mystery out of the last photo …
Cat Stories and Contest Winners
The contest to celebrate my new book, Murder at the Courthouse, is over and the winners have been picked. I give each of your entry e-mails a number and then pick the numbers of the winners by random.org. Some of these days I’ll learn how to do that raffle copter that other writers use, but right now I’m enjoying hearing …
Writing Workshops & the Winners are…
I’ve been working all week on getting ready for the Kentucky Christian Writers Conference in Elizabethtown coming up this Friday and Saturday, June 24 & 25. I had actually thought this was my first writers conference when I went last year, but then I was reminded that I had led some workshops at the Green Rivers Writers Retreat some years …
Celebrating a New Year
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” That quote is on a refrigerator magnet my daughter brought home years ago. We’ve had a lot of new years and new days since then, but that doesn’t make the saying any less true. There’s also the saying about yesterday being gone, tomorrow is not here and all we …
TTYL and other Text Letter Mysteries
I’m a little nervous about doing this post. SIMB (Shaking in my boots) because I think I’ve had TMB (too many birthdays) to come up with all these shortcuts in the world of texting. See the picture. That’s where I am. Using quills and paper. Actually I’ve advanced all the way up to ballpoint pens and paper. You know the …