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Writing Tips, Book Events, and Writers Conference
Today’s post is a mash-up of writing tips, coaching, and virtual opportunities. Bear with me, and you’ll see how it’s all related. Writing Tips Have you ever received a text from a family…
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Is a Young Child Serial Killer Born Bad?
While researching cases for Pretty Evil New England, I stumbled across the bizarre case of America’s youngest male serial killer. Later, I searched for a female child serial killer and found an even…
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Vintage Death Rites That Seem Creepy Today
To celebrate the release of Pretty Evil New England (yay!), I feel it’s my duty to share some creepy death rites of the past that at the time seemed perfectly normal. In the…
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Men They Couldn’t Hang
If a prisoner survived three trips to the gallows, should he be set free? That question plagued the public when faced with men they couldn’t hang. These are their stories. < cue Law…
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PRETTY EVIL NEW ENGLAND Sneak Peek
I’m beyond thrilled to announce the ebook and paperback of Pretty Evil New England are both available for pre-order! All of the research I conducted in 2019. Good thing, too, because 2020 messed with…
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Killing Mary Mabel Rogers
Mary Mabel Rogers’ final sunset dipped below the grey and cheerless hills to the west, shadows swallowing the prison walls around her. Ink-darkness cascaded over Mary’s porcelain skin, her delicate fingers gripping the…
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Chatting with Garry, Part II: How He Almost Killed Neil Young
If you missed yesterday’s post, I’ve been chatting with my retired cop/coroner buddy, Garry Rodgers. Today, you’ll hear about all Garry’s shenanigans, including how he almost killed Neil Young and how his possessed…
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Death Surrounds Us — How One Writer Escapes
As a crime writer, a large part of my life is devoted to delving into murder, serial killers, death, and heartless, brutal crimes. With fiction, research is important for realism, but your mindset…
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Family Annihilators + Look Back at 2019
The holidays are often spent with family. My family, especially my siblings, are a nutty bunch whose thoughts run in line with mine (must be in the DNA). So, as I sat around…
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Historic Crime: Stepping Back in Time
A large part of my research for Pretty Evil New England involved traveling to crime scenes, historical societies, libraries, and cemeteries. And every so often I hit the motherload, which is exactly what…
