Ripped from the Headlines For many years, my daytime writing life and my nighttime writing life were totally separate. During the day, I wrote about food and sustainability. At night, I wrote fiction: mysteries and crime, thrillers, the occasional science fiction. But recently, a strange thing happened. The food issues I was writing about during […]

Dark Nights Ahead One of the joys of writing a series character is getting to keep her around. Mine is New Orleans Police Department rookie Maureen Coughlin. Deciding where to take her with each new book is a challenge. And I don’t just mean in terms of plot, but where does she go emotionally, psychologically, […]