Do they just want tips on how to murder people? — I have a confession to make: I love True Crime documentaries. Not all of them are about serial killers, some are about missing person cases or just individual people who have been murdered or unsolved mysteries. Some are also about theft, but I don’t watch those as much. I thought…

Having a Sense of Belonging in a Group Is So Important — I was in the Third Thursday Thrillers book club, which is based at Potomac Community Library. There is one older man who attends the book club and several older ladies (some retired and some middle aged). I felt like many of them were my “grandparent” figures with so much knowledge…

None have significant traction … yet. That’s your opportunity. — Making money online directly from writing is still new. In the old days you had to be Einstein and come up with creative ways to secretly get your audience to pay for your words. It led to lots of shady stuff, like reviews that were secret ads paid for by…

My coffee, my business — My coffee, my business I take two sugars in my coffee, I always have. I started drinking it when I was about eleven, that’s how many I had then, and it’s how many I have now. But my ex decided that was too much sugar, and I needed to cut…