Some of my favorite memories from childhood are of celebrating Independence Day in my little Midwestern hometown, West Frankfort, Illinoi...

... even though I lost my earthly father on that terrible day, I still had a Father, and oh boy, what a daddy He is.

Being a writer, I have a great imagination – and I’m particularly good at imagining all that might go wrong.

Plotting murder doesn’t come easily to me. When I started planning my first mystery novel Up in Smoke, I knew who the killer was, the method