I mentioned on Facebook recently that I’d been privileged to interview best-selling author, Anne Hillerman.  The daughter of Tony Hillerman, she picked up writing his popular Southwest Indian mysteries that featured detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee.  This April, Anne Hillerman

The challenge in writing a daily blog is to stay balanced: to choose topics close to centers of interest my readers recognize, while providing enough novelty to prevent them from becoming bored. All writers face this delicate balance.  Harry Potter put J. K. Rowling on the map. But w

One of my recent books finds from the Dollar Store is a Four Corners mystery, Earthway by Amée and David Thurlo. What attracted me to the book was Tony Hillerman’s endorsement on the jacket. Hillerman, now deceased, was best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mysteries which featur