I am always looking for ways to connect with my readers. And so, from time to time, I devote one of my blogs (www.xanga.com/doahsdeer) to writing collaborative stories with my readers. I'll post the first few hundred words and invite my readers to write the story along with me. We write without a plan, without even an idea who our co-writers will be. Quite simply, I invite my readers to post the next section of the story as a comment at my blog.…

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I'm sure that some of you will know Paul Toth, who has a page here on crimespace. Paul is building a vast library of podcasts, featuring some of his own works as well as works by guest authors. Thursday evening, I read the first chapter of A Minor Case of Murder for one of Paul's podcasts, and here it is already featured on tothworld #94. So listen, if you're so inclined to toth 94 and then check out his archives.

My thanks to Paul for…

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I wanted to use this space today to thank Margery Flax and the Mystery Writers of America for hosting my book signing Friday at Book Expo America. And to those writers and MWA members that I met for the first time on Friday, it's a pleasure to meet you guys. I came home with a summer's worth of books to read. I hope you all had as much fun at BEA as I did.