GOLDIN'S GOLDENS
Sometimes, when I terrify myself writing murder scenes in my dark, creaking house in the middle of the night, I have to give the lab puppy by my...
BOOK REVIEW OF SMOKE SCREEN BY IRIS JOHANSEN
Smoke Screen (Eve Duncan Book 26) Iris Johansen Grand Central Publishing 7/30/19 Smoke Screen by Iris Johansen brings to life a realistic...
BEHIND THE BOOK WITH MARY ANNA EVANS
I admire the ancient cultures of the Americas very much and I am always happy when a story gives me a chance to highlight their achievements and the things they have to teach the rest of us. In Catacombs, I continue with that theme by centering the book around a conference celebrating indigenous art that brings together people indigenous to the Americas with immigrants and descendants of immigrants from Asia, Africa, and Europe. Humanity has created so many things worth celebrating.
INTERVIEW WITH LEILA MEACHAM
I just sit down and write watching my characters evolve. I do not have much of a plan for the place, characters, and plot before I begin writing. I also do not sign up front contracts. For heaven’s sake I am eighty years old and didn’t start writing until I was 65. After five years, at the age of seventy, by a string of miracles, my book was picked up by a literary agent. I have been writing ever since.
