We turn to books for so many reasons, and sometimes that includes the desire to forget, if only for a while, about reality. That’s been my experience this past month (as I know it’s been for others), and I found mixed success in my title choices. Darn those talented writers who keep us reading/listening...

Welcome to Where Everybody Knows Your… Alibi - where we get to know the
fictional towns we’d happily move to… if they didn’t have such a suspicious body count.
(but does that really matter?)

I'm thrilled to welcome Rosalie Spielman this month. Whether you've met her...

Growing up in Ohio, my high school was bordered by rows of cornfields. I thought I knew a lot about the crop, but I had never heard of a "Corn Palace" until we reached South Dakota during our 2021 Go West trip across the USA. They were celebrating 100 years when we visited.

The Corn Palace, commonly...

I’m the kind of person who always has music playing (my Spotify wrapped numbers are truly unhinged), so I had many different playlists on rotation while writing THE LAKE CLUB. In fact, I had playlists for each individual character (this helped me get into their mindsets/energy) as well as for the book at large, and I...