So I think I can Blog!

...and I will be blogging my little heart out.
I am thrilled to be invited on my very first Blog Tour, and I will be in grand company! This is advance notice the November 25--December 9, 2011
MYSTERY WE WRITE BLOG TOUR.

I have to admit I'm a little overwhelmed at the idea of a two week blog blitz, but just look at the company I'm in: Wendy Gager, Alice Duncan, John M. Daniel, Pat Browning, Ron Benrey, Beth Anderson, Anne K. Albert (our fearless tour guide), Earl Staggs, Mike Orenduff, Marilyn Meredith, Jean Henry Mead, Jackie King, and last but by no means least, Timothy Hallinan, will all be blogging on my blog, and I on theirs.

I haven't come up with my list of questions for them yet, so if there is something you would like to know about these outstanding authors (keep it clean) let me know.

Virtually Booked: I'm innocent! Innocent, I tell you.

It was a frame-up, pure and simple.

Here I was, going along with the usual business of setting up books signings in my favorite bookstores for Just Deserts, my new Hetta Coffey novel, when I was bushwacked! The seemingly sweet-natured and otherwise loveable Pat Browning did it. She dragged me, kicking and screamimg, into the world of virtual book touring.

Okay, so maybe she didn't hold a gun to my head, but by inviting me to participate in a two-week blitzkrieg of blogging, she has forced me into what I had, until now, avoided like, well, tap water in Acapulco.

I've actually been on Blogspot for over four years, but have been extremely lax about blogging, because who was gonna read it anyhow? But then, how could they, since I never told anyone I was blogging.

This is a test. Is anyone at all reading this???

Hetta's at it again!

That Hetta Coffey! Once again, in number four of the Hetta Coffey mystery series, that woman with a yacht (and she's not afraid to use is) has landed in a hot spot. Forced to put her boat in dry dock for repairs, Hetta heads north for a project and ends up on the tumultuous Arizona/Mexico border.

It was fun to write about my own area of the world, weave a little local color, politics, and history into Hetta's adventures. If you think the headlines are wrong about this border, you should take a trip in Hetta's shoes; read Just Deserts.