Met some great people and sold some books at Central Coast Writers’ annual Booktoberfest. Always fun to talk with fellow writers and readers. We learned something from everyone we talked with.

Many thanks to crime mystery author Sally Spedding for crafting such a fun interview and Mystery People Editor Lizzie Hayes for publishing it both on the MP website and on Lizzie’s blog. Sally asked really thoughtful questions, and I had to go deep in some cases to make sure I did them justice. I had fun doing the …

We had a fine time for nearly three weeks in September, exploring southern British Columbia — the city of Vancouver plus Victoria and Tofino on Vancouver Island. We went most of the way from central California by train on the famous Coast Starlight but ended up taking just about every other mode of surface transport — …