Poetry is Power

  Last year, I wrote a guest blog about Brookwood, a St. Petersburg, Florida group home for abused adolescent girls.  I visited with the poetry group (started by a wonderful, giving woman by the name of Jeanne Chase) and had a truly remarkable night talking with these young writers. That visit led to Jeanne Chase…

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A HELL OF A WOMAN: An Anthology of Female Noir

When Dave Thompson, owner of one of my favorite independent booksellers in the country, Murder by the Book in Houston, asked me to contribute to a forthcoming anthology called A HELL OF A WOMAN, I jumped at the chance. A HELL OF A WOMAN: An Anthology of Female Noir will be published by Busted Flush Press…

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