“Pretty Rita” appears in the current issue of ALFRED HITCHCOCK MYSTERY MAGAZINE, (Jan/Feb Issue) along with other cool mysteries by Alan Gratz, Steven Gore, K. J. Egan, Janet E. Irvin, Michelle Knowlden, Mitch Alderman, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Gary Alexander, Stringfellow Forbes, John H. Dirckx and David Hagerty.

A little about “Pretty Rita” – Twenty-five days after Hurricane Katrina, as New Orleans struggles to survive, Katrina’s big sister, Hurricane Rita (Category 5 with the lowest… Continue

Saturday, October 24, 2009, I will be at TALE OF TWO SISTERS BOOKSTORE, 214 Lee Lane, Suite A, Covington, LA 70433 (Phone: 985.875.7750). I will be signing copies of NEW ORLEANS CONFIDENTIAL, LaSTANZA: NEW ORLEANS POLICE STORIES, THE BIG SHOW and plan to give autographed copies of some magazines. Other New Orleans authors will be signing their books. Come if you can.

A good historical-fiction writer can transport the reader through a time machine back to the day. Believe me, it’s hard to do and I take great pains to succeed when I write a Lucien Caye or Jacques Dugas mystery and especially with the book I’m writing now (I’ve been living in 1814 for over a year). Robert S. Levinson makes it look easy in his latest, “Regarding Certain Occurrences In A Cottage At The Garden of Allah” (in the current issue of ALFRED HITCHCOCK MYSTERY MAGAZINE – November… Continue