• The House Is On Fire

    Jerked awake with the fire alarm blaring. You tumble out of bed, grab your family, your pets, and head for…

  • 2020, a decade, and a new bird

    It’s that time of year again, time for the first bird of the year. It’s a tradition among birders, bird…

  • A Ginger Cat for Christmas

    This is Magnus, and he’s the wrong cat. We adopted him this summer, but we meant to adopt a different…

  • NYCC 2019

    Here's announcement number one for your chance to see me in person and get something signed. See you in New…

  • What if the Sky is not Falling.

    What if the sky was not falling? What if all the hysterical calls for the end of everything was a…

  • Listening to the Silence

             It’s 11:00 in the morning and I have no writing done. I’m on deadline and I have no…

  • A Cultural Tragedy

    These news articles crossed my feed yesterday.   800-year-old 'Crusader' at Dublin church decapitated Search underway for missing head of…

  • The next Anita Blake novel…

    A lot of you have asked me what the next Anita Blake novel is about, so I came up with…

  • Shutdown, Again

    I wrote the story, Shutdown, an original Anita Blake story during a very different government shutdown under President Obama. I…

  • First bird of the year & New Year’s Resolutions

    Sorry it’s taken me this long to blog about my first bird of the year, but I’ve managed to get…