Meet Sloane Skipper
Last time in Beyond the Series, I shared the rules of The Killing Loop. Detective Sloane Skipper is trapped in a repeating day. The murder victim comes back. The evidence resets. Everyone else forgets. Sloane remembers. But a time loop is really only the mechanism of the story. Sloane is the reason I think […]
The Books I Never Forgot
There are books I’ve enjoyed, closed, placed back on the shelf, and eventually forgotten most of the details. Then there are the others. The books where years can pass and I still remember something. Maybe it’s a character. A scene. A twist I never saw coming. Sometimes I can’t even remember every detail of […]
Bake Along With Us: Lemon Blueberry Scones
Our search for the perfect Secrets and Scones scone continues. The first contender was cinnamon, warm, cozy, and exactly the kind of thing I could imagine sitting behind the glass at Claire’s Curious Confections. But we can’t make this competition too easy. So Scone #2 is heading in a completely different direction. Lemon blueberry. 🍋🫐 […]
Building the Trail Sam Will Follow
I already know who Samantha Hayes is hunting in Buried in Silence. Sam doesn’t. And that creates one of my favorite parts of writing a thriller. I have to build a trail between them. Not an obvious trail. If I make it too easy, Sam catches him in fifty pages and we have a very […]