Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." —Don Marquis

This is in honor of my mother-in-law, Inez Frances Brantley, who turns 100 on April 24th. Her volume of verse will be a special gift for every person at her celebration.  You can check out her book here.

And I, for one, can hear the echo.

It's all better with friends.

Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering." —Robert Frost


There is a certain amount of freedom in poetry that those of us who struggle with crime fiction can only imagine.

Except, of course, when we write peoems.



It's all better with friends.