For the last two years, I've been hosting a video series called Sidekicks & Side Trips, where I interview fellow authors and their pets. I've learned so much about some of my favorite authors getting the chance to meet their beloved pets - ...
Writing tends to be a lonely profession. You’re in a room, on a screen, dealing with nothing but your own imagination and, in my case, twisty murder plots. When I began writing The Perfect Escape, a girls’ weekend gone wrong set in Catskill, NY, I had also just...
How can I write about just one of my beloved pets? It’s like asking me to write about just one of my kids … and then the other four would plot murder behind my back. I love all my kids — and animals — equally. Growing up, my mom was a dog person and I was a cat...
My Golden Retriever, Pickles, is the inspiration for my new dog detective mystery, THE BONE RANGER, which is about a dog that solves crimes that humans can’t.
When my husband and I lived in British Columbia, we rented a century farm on nineteen acres on the bluff above the Fraser river.
Kelli is a coydog (half coyote, half golden retriever) that we found in the desert, not far from our house, on our daily, early morning walk, when she was just a few weeks old.
