Award-Winning Author ~ Writing Instructor ~ Bookseller

Check out my Story Archives, where I post some of my stories for visitors to read.

 
 
 
THE ROSE IN THE SNOW: TALES OF MISCHIEF AND MAYHEM. A collection of thirteen of my short stories...some are new, some are my old favorites, and two are Derringer Award winners.

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New from Red Coyote Press: MEDIUM OF MURDER: ORIGINAL STORIES OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE -- Stories that use variations on the word "medium"

Featuring my story, "Hocus Pocus on Friday the 13th"

Also featuring stories by Sarah Parkin, John Randall Williams, D.B. Reddick, Susan Budavari, Carole Sojka, Suzanne Harding, Gary Earl Ross, Gay Toltl Kinman, Gigi Vernon, Suzanne Flaig, Diana Catt, Warren Bull, Nancy Streukens, Frank Zafiro, Howard Carron, Judy Starbuck, and Rachelle Yeaman.

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  From Red Coyote Press: MAP OF MURDER: ORIGINAL STORIES OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE — Winner of the National Indie Excellence 2007 Book Awards - Short Story Fiction.

Featuring my story, "Audition for Murder,"

MAP OF MURDER also contains stories by S.J. Smith, R.L. Coffield, Judy Starbuck, Suzanne Flaig, Susan Budavari and many others.

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Other places where you'll find my stories...

On Fictionwise, where you can download some of my longer stories, including "Nothing Good Ever Came of a Bad Hair Day," "Capital Justice (Derringer Award winner)," "Deadly Obsessions," "Getting His (Derringer Award nominee), "L.A. Justice (Derringer Award winner), "No Star Murder," "Nun in the Shadows," "Sentence Imposed," "Showtime on the Winter Solstice," and "The Criminal in the Mirror."

On Sniplits, where you'll find the audio of my story, "My World: You're Welcome to it"

If you read German, a number of my stories appear in German-language anthologies from Gerstenberg Verlag. They include Bei Ankunft Mord, Mord zwischen Messer & Gabel, Mord in Grünen, Mord Zum Dessert and Mord im Weinkeller. To order any of these, visit the Gerstenberg site

Other recent anthologies in which my stories have appeared have been THE GIFT OF MURDER (Wolfmont Press), MURDER PAST, MURDER PRESENT (Twilight Times Books), HOW NOT TO SURVIVE THE HOLIDAYS (Desert Sleuths Sisters in Crime), HOW NOT TO SURVIVE A VACATION ((Desert Sleuths Sisters in Crime), GONE COASTAL and NEVER SAFE (Seven Sisters Press), TECHNO NOIR (Zumaya Publications), BLONDES IN TROUBLE (Intrigue Press).