Archives for May 2026

I love the Bay Area Book Festival, which sprawls over blocks of downtown Berkeley. It’s exuberant, all kinds of books, authors, readers, publishers, music, food! My friend and fellow author Simi Monheit and I stopped at the Sibylline Press booth, my new publishing home. So well … [Read more...]

SinC NorCal’s annual Spring Authors Showcase highlights our authors’ new books. Held at Book Passage, Corte Madera, each author offered a brief reading. All kinds of mystery genres. I was moderator this year. Next year, I’ll be reading from my 16th-century Deceit in the City of … [Read more...]

Stephen King, in his excellent book On Writing, said, “To write is human, to edit is divine.”  In the May issue of SinC NorCal’s Stiletta—with thanks every issue to editor Margie Bunting—I wrote my take on editing. It’s how I made my living. My favorite of Elmore Leonard’s 10 … [Read more...]