This vending machine in the Sip and Sonder coffee shop in Inglewood (near Los Angeles) spits out free short stories for you to read. Well-written ones too. It’s like winning the lotto only with less money and begging relatives.

Spent a few hours this morning doing research on a character in my next novel. The research involved watching a panel of speakers at The Ebell discuss the foster care system in Los Angeles. It was heartwarming to be in a crowd of people committed to helping children and families! Writing has perks and I…

Had a fun day researching bees at an Atlas Obscura event held at the Elysian Community Garden. It’s exciting to make things up then do field work and discover those ideas could actually work in real life. Score! And eating fresh honey? What a delicious writing perk.

I had the honor of being in the Debut Authors Program of the International Thriller Writers and attended the Thrillerfest conference at the New York Hilton Midtown from May 5-9, 2026. What a dream to be around rock star authors like Robert Dugoni, Harlan Coben, Lisa Scottoline, Karin Slaughter, Gregg Hurwitz, S. A. Cosby and…

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On May 3rd, I led a panel at Chevalier’s Bookstore in the cool Larchmont Village section of Los Angeles in conjunction with the Women’s Fiction Writers Association. Topic: How We Got Traditional Publishing Deals Without an Agent. Also on the panel was Sarah Vacchiano, author of Soft Launch and Lindsay Marie Morris, author of Beneath…