Sticky Fingers

My about-to-be-released novel, Submerged Hopes, contains one very memorable handprint, but also an instance of the use of fingerprints, or dactyloscopy, during investigation of a crime. Here’s what I learned in my research. Fingerprints are unique to the...

Get a Grip: Rock Climbing

While I love a good sports romance, there’s more to the genre than ballplayers, so I enjoyed putting surfing and scuba diving in Submerged Hopes, and rock climbing in New Heights.  Here’s what I learned. Rock climbing was first depicted in Chinese...

Out of This World

The first time I saw the Northern Lights on television, they mesmerized me: a shifting curtain of green and purple streaming from the sky, so of course, I had to put this in a pivotal scene in New Heights. Yet auroras are way cooler than I’d ever imagined! Here’s what...

Deaf, NOT Dumb!

When I wrote a Deaf heroine for my latest novel, Submerged Hopes, I was intrigued by the idea that a hindrance which she struggled with day to day could be an asset while diving. Though I have several family members who became deaf later in life, they don’t...

Greek Name Days

I just had a birthday, but If I were Greek, I’d celebrate on my “Name Day” on February 19. Here’s a little bit about Name Day celebrations. In Greek culture, a birthday is worth celebrating, but you get a bonus: another occasion on your Name Day, which is the date...

Just One More

“Just one more” is certainly high up on the list of Inadvisable Actions, whether that refers to just one more cheese puff (Who really believes one bag truly holds thirteen servings instead of four?!), one more episode in a ten-hour episode of binge-watching, or just...

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