Last week, my wife and I attended the Left Coast Crime 2017 convention in Hawaii. Four days of great panels and talks. Just shy of 500 p...

I got out of snow country for a little bit and found myself sitting on a bench on the American River in Sacramento, computer on my lap, work...

Yes, there are a few other places in the world that get as much snow as Tahoe. Not a lot of them. But they're out there. (As of this wri...

Four or five years in the making. One year in the unmaking. Was it random chaos? Were the weather gods just testing us? Or is this the new...

The famous movie impresario Samuel Goldwyn (the “G” in MGM) said, “I want a story that starts out with an earthquake… and THEN builds to a...

The last two weeks, I wrote about the worst way to self publish your books. The problem basically boils down to signing over your publicatio...

Last week I said that there is a very simple way to cut through the hype and hyperbole on a publisher or "self-publisher." This is...

In last week's post, I mentioned several reasons why self publishing is a logical default approach for new writers. What I forgot to do ...

I got an email from a writer. His three questions to me were: 1) How should I publish a novel? 2) How should I market and promote a...

At first, the snow was our savior in a world afflicted with drought. It will fill the lake and water the Central Valley farmland next summer...

Last week we got ten feet of snow. As you can imagine, this was a classic good news/bad news situation. The good news is that North...

As I write this, the National Weather Service has issued stern warnings for Tahoe and the surrounding area. They say an atmospheric river is...