Marple Style In real life, accidental detectives are about as likely as unicorns gaining the right to vote. Yet, we still cling to the notion of seemingly innocuous people finding themselves embroiled in murder and intrigue because it’s romantic. What would the canon of cozy mystery fiction be without this leap of faith? Where would […]

Yellow Fever and Poisoned Wells Here, let me tell you a quick story.I was eighteen years old, out to dinner at The Grove with three girlfriends. All four of us were Asian girls, three of us high school classmates, the fourth, a younger sister, aged fifteen. We sat at a booth, and our waitress was […]

From Screen to Stage to Page I’ve been a screenwriter for over twenty years, but since I now have a novel out and a play that I wrote being developed for a possible run in New York, I’ve been thinking about the different modes of writing—what they have in common and how they differ. The […]