Mathiya Adams

Sally O’Brian…  Ava Storm…  Cynthia Pierson.   My three heroines are very different people. If the people an author writes about are just extensions of her personality, I wonder what that says about me.  Perhaps that’s a topic for a future discussion.    In the meantime, I would like to find out which kind of […]

Every writer goes about her craft in their own personal way. When I first started writing, at a very young age, I had two techniques that I thought served me well. First, I had a picture or image in my mind that inspired the story. And second, I had a typewriter that would allow me

One of the dilemmas I face when writing Crystal Cove novels is what is going to be the next book in the series.   This should not be a problem. I have a pretty good idea of how the overall series is going to progress. I have an over-arching plot line that I follow. In

I’ve been thinking about a possible sequel to the Hot Dog Detective series. One idea that is floating around in the empty recesses of my brain is the concept of MacFarland and Pierson in their new detective agency.   Things are moving along at a slow but predictable pace until a young woman, Sonia Landis,

More than a decade ago, I had an inspiration to write a story about a man I saw standing at the corner of the Denver Civic Center Building. He was selling hot dogs, though at the time I saw him, he was deeply engrossed in listening to an audio tape cassette. I thought he was

Time for an update. I am currently working on Book 9 of the Crystal Cove Mystery series, The Ghost in the Library. The story involves two ghosts, once engaged to one another, when the bride-to-be is murdered. Then, a few years later, the intended groom dies in an accident…or possibly from a murder. I am