Still Waiting . . .

Dec 6, 2017 | Murder In a Small Town

This will be brief: I still wonder what may have happened to the tip submitted in early May about the Stacey Burns murder case. I know that the authorities are not bound to let anyone know what happens to  a tip. I get that and I live in fear that something I say or...

Writer’s Digest Review

Nov 29, 2017 | Cracks in the Wall|Uncategorized

              I wanted to share this commentary from Writer’s Digest with my readers/followers on this blog as it make me pretty proud of my latest novel, Cracks in the Wall. “Cracks in the Wall presents with a dramatic cover art design. . . . No issues...

The Two Day Rule

Nov 27, 2017 | Murder In a Small Town

Following are several paragraphs from Chapter Seven-“The Exes” in the first draft of the Murder in a Small Town: The Tragic Death of Stacey Burns” book. As mentioned numerous times, this narrative is incomplete, simply because  the ending of the real...

Risky but Necessary

Nov 21, 2017 | Murder In a Small Town

As promised in a previous blog, I am occasionally including small portions of Murder in a Small Town: The Tragic Death of Stacey Burns, which is a book waiting for the arrest/trial/conviction chapters to be written. Here is the beginning of Chapter Six. This was...

Winning Contests, Selling Books

Nov 20, 2017 | The Writing Process

 The photo show me reading a snippet of the first place winning personal essay in the Society of Southwestern Authors 2017 Writing Competition yesterday at the award luncheon. For those  looking only for Stacey Burns posts from this blog, you are excused from this one...