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...

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...

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...

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...

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...