Conference this past weekend...

I had a great time this weekend at the Deadly Ink annual conference at Parsippany, New Jersey. It's for mystery writers and readers. The workshops were informative but authors' books were slow to sell. Could be the economy.

I won an honorary mention for my short story The Curio Shop, and it's the number two story in the 2009 Deadly Ink anthology.

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Whales, whales, and more whales!

(photo by Mr. Barlow)

I'm just back from four days at Provincetown, Cape Cod.

On Saturday, we had whales all around the boat—many mother humpbacks with their calves. It seemed that the mothers were teaching their youngsters how to catch fish. Amazing sight as they blew a bubble net around the fish, then come up inside the net and scoop up the fish in their open mouths, then squeeze out the water through the baleen plates in their mouths. I've watched whales dozens of times, but this time it was unbelievable. A photographer took movies of the whole trip,and I ordered a DVD copy of it. Can't wait to see it.

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Working on short stories...

The next novel in the Kate Bart mystery series, Fleeced in Stonington, will probably be an ebook in February 2010. Time will fly by.

Meanwhile I'm working on a couple of short stories to submit to Woman's World.

I'm a finalist in the Deadly Ink short story contest. It's called The Old Curio Shop.

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