The Nottingham Connection…

  When I first met Charlie Resnick, John Harvey’s jazz-loving detective inspector, on the page in 1991, I was thrilled.  Here was a new series from a British crimewriter I hadn’t read before.  Three books in, and I was hooked — on Harvey’s...

The Art of Collaboration!

  In the days before writing romances together as Stephanie Browning, Susan Brown and I wrote mysteries for middle-grade readers. We also co-authored scripts and dabbled in a bit of television, but the following article was, in fact, our first “official”...

How to get away with murder…in print!

While meeting your next husband! Several years ago, I was asked to give a workshop on writing mysteries. I’d published a few for nine-to-12 year olds by then, written several short stories, and was active in the local writing community. It was an easy decision. But...