Basements, Bodies, and Mountain Lions, Oh My!

Amateur sleuths are fearless, and luckily so. Authors put them in positions that a regular person might run away from. A crash in an empty basement? Easy peasy. A dead body in a dark alley? No problem. A mountain lion in the middle of the forest? Uh. . . . It’s a situation my sleuth,…

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Inspired by Place: The Heart of Happy Camper

Finding beauty and inspiration can be hard in the bleak month of January. For a writer, however, inspiration is important. John Keats once said, “If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.” I’m no poet, but I do believe there is truth in his…

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