“Comedy may dilute the trials and tragedies of life and serve them up in a more palatable form, but what does it matter how the meal is prepared if the end result is digested?” Sometimes a casual remark can throw things into perspective. I told Susanna Sturgis, author of the excellent blog Write Through […]
A Perfect Place for Murder
Rich in history, folklore, and legend, not to mention remote, hard-to-get-to places, the Ozarks can provide fertile ground for a writer’s imagination. In a guest blog, Susan Holmes, author of the entertaining suspense novel, Deadly Ties, explains why her home in these beautiful mountains provides the perfect setting for her Waterside Kennels mysteries. Blueprint for Murder: Writing a Regional Mystery […]
Morning Glory
My daily walks here in the Blue Ridge Mountains often remind me of the Navajo prayer from The Blessing Way. In beauty I walk With beauty before me I walk With beauty behind me I walk With beauty above me I walk With beauty around me I walk It has become beauty again Sometimes, the […]