If you’ve been yearning to connect with the great, the bad, and the ugly of historical Las Vegas, yearn no more! DESERT OF DREAMS, featuring my short story Millie and Loretta at the Desert Oasis in now available! Here’s the short story lineup, directly from the anthology sponsors, the Historical Novel Society North America: “In… Read More

I’m happy to share that I’ve got a short story in DESERT OF DREAMS, the HNS NA’s FIRST Conference Anthology   “Millie and Loretta at the Desert Oasis” debuts in late June at the conference.   If you are intrigued by stories of historical Las Vegas, you’ll enjoy all of the anthology stories! There’s no… Read More

HAPPY FRIDAY!   Today’s PLW FREEBEE short story is my own tale, Miss Evelyn Nesbit Presents. Here’s the story… “In 1914, Evelyn Nesbit is a celebrated beauty who, as a teenager, was raped and ruined by a famous architect. Her mentally unstable and physically abusive millionaire husband has recently discarded both Evelyn and her young… Read More

Are you a fan of stories featuring strong, independent women and girls? No shrinking violets! No damsels in distress! Here are 80 FREE short story downloads, including my own X Marks The Spot. If you didn’t snatch up X Marks The Spot last month, do it now, because you never know when my target girl… Read More

It’s Publication Day for DESTINY COMES DUE, the Paper Lantern Writers’ third historical fiction anthology, which includes my latest story, The Widow Morgan Don’t Take No Moonshine. “Within this fast-paced anthology of historical short stories and novelettes, each protagonist must face their own day of reckoning: a day when decisions must be made and action… Read More

Almost every writer I know has a tagline, and mine is “Writing historic crime fiction celebrating bodacious American heroines”. On November 1st, you can meet my latest bodacious American heroine, the Widow Ida Morgan.   After her husband is killed in the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, grief-stricken Ida Morgan confronts the brash Washington City… Read More