• Fiction,  Short Story

    Life is Short and Then You Die

    I am thrilled to have a story in Mystery Writers of America’s first teen anthology, Life is Short and Then You Die, edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong. Contributors include Barry Lyga, Caleb Roehrig, Emmy Laybourne, Jonathan Maberry, R.L. Stine,…

  • Books

    2018 Year in Books

    Total books read: 58 Nonfiction: 7 Craft of writing: 2 Memoir by Kansas authors: 2 Fiction: 51 Written by friends: 4 (but I have several more queued up–I ran out of time!) Written by other authors represented by my agent:…

  • Fiction,  Short Story

    “Leah” — The First Two Pages

    “The First Two Pages,” a blog series begun by B.K. Stevens in 2015 and continued after her death in 2017 by Art Taylor, features a fabulous collection of essays in which fiction writers discuss the decisions they made in crafting…