Spring is in the air here on Mount Desert Island. A couple of 50-degree days have left major snowbanks mere molehills of their former selves.
And even though Accuweather is forecasting an additional 3-6 inches of snow for tonight into tomorrow, this week still seemed like a pretty good time to (more…)
Sometimes the best writing prompts are visual. Like the one I saw yesterday in the grocery store checkout line. (more…)
PHOTO CREDIT: Tim Rooney, Bold Coast Photography
As a native New Jerseyan – more importantly, a native Trentonian – my first mystery series (oh, did I mention it’s a series?) is set in the Trenton area. This comes as a surprise to some people, who (naturally, I suppose) assumed I would set my novel in my adopted state of Maine. After all, everyone knows Maine has pea soup fog, ancient cemeteries, and tons of old falling-down-sideways houses and barns along less-traveled roads (many of them unlit and unpaved). Throw in a landscape that includes a mix of dark, foreboding evergreens and craggy, bare-branched trees with twisted arms just waiting to swoop down and grab you as you traverse said less-traveled roads – well, it’s a setting just custom-made for creepers and murderers and horrors enough to ruin your sleep patterns for years to come. I think a guy named King has pretty well established this fact.
But when choosing a setting for a novel, why go for merely spooky when you can opt for truly bizarre? (more…)
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