This week I drove down to Sacramento for an interview on CapRadio's Insight program. (CapRadio, for those of you who don't have a...

M ore  than a few times, I’ve met visitors at the end of their vacation in Tahoe, and I learned that they never saw Emerald Bay. Not only i...

Sure, I write fiction, you say, but this blog is true stuff. One day my wife and I saw a Golden retriever on a motorcycle on Emerald Ba...

Have you ever heard about Tahoe Tomatoes? I didn't think so. A few intrepid Tahoe locals who live on sunny meadows and face the warm...

Can you get a college education in a mountain paradise? Let's face it, the real reason a standard-issue dude or dudette would come ...

When I started writing crime fiction, I had no experience with law enforcement. My concept of the world of cops was formed by reading the...

There have been studies – hidden video camera stuff – that show how people choose a book. First, book browsers scan a bunch of books, look...

My 10 th book will be out at the end of this month. Called TAHOE TRAP, it is about a 10-year-old illegal, Mexican, immigrant boy whose ...

In a couple of my books, Spot, a Harlequin Great Dane, plays with a Toy Poodle vastly smaller than he is, always an entertaining thing...