Left Coast Crime 2024

For my next “week reads,” I’m choosing one book from each author on the Left Coast Crime panel I will moderate next month! If you are attending the “Seattle Shakedown” in Seattle, WA, join our panel, “Unexplainable vs. Unexplained: Paranormal Elements in Mysteries,” featuring these super-star cozy mystery writers: Jennifer J. Chow, Margaret Lucke, Angela …

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Have you ever read a book in a series and as soon as you finished it wished you had the next one? Because that is this book for me. Lies are Forever is a gripping story that follows Sloane West as she follows the trail of what she believes to be a botched attempt on …

Tiny Wren

This morning when the mist disappeared I heard wrestling in the litter under the hedge of dormant rhododendrons, and I thought spring is here. Hear the busy, tiny birds. And I thought of you without the cover of a grey sky. How you will find a shadow to slip inside until your dark period is …

Lies Are Forever

**For fans of paranormal mysteries like the Dresden Files ** If Harry Dresden were a lesbian witch, he’d be Sloane West. Book One of the Sloane West Mysteries, Lies Are Forever, is available in eBook, paperback, and audio. Get your copy and meet Sloane and her new found coven family. Book Two, Under a Cold …

First Date

not every encounter will be the one but the one will come from some chance meeting so you show up more aware of yourself than the night before give soothing strokes to your goosebump skin the air stuffy inside   with the promise of hope knowing if the one appears you will charm the rain …

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Couldn’t put it down! I love a good murder mystery and this book delivers on that and so much more. From the first page to the last, I was gripped by the characters and the way the author described the locations that made me feel like I was there with them. The best part … …

Wabi Masters

Truly honoured guest editor Jerome Berglund included me in Setu Special Edition: Masters Series Part II: Wabi, Urban Decay: Masters of Wabi: Featured Poets. Read Berglund’s superlative series here. Here are two of my pieces and Berglund’s generous commentary: leaf skeleton frozen in the dog bowl no longer needed cold moon she closes a date …