Happy New Year, one and all!!!! Allow me to be the first to tell you in 2015: I am honored to call each of you my friend. Today I have for you 3 different approaches to New Year’s Resolutions, followed by a toast. Do you create New Year’s Resolutions? Some years I do. Some years […]
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DIE HARD Trivia and Commentary from Diane Capri
This week we asked you to name your favorite ‘festive flick that thrills.’ In other words, your favorite thriller or mystery movie that’s set around the holidays. Die Hard was the winner by hard mile. Die Hard 2 was adapted from the 1987 novel 58 Minutes, by my friend, Walter Wager. Walter would have been so proud. So I […]
Festive Flicks That Thrill
What’s your favorite holiday movie? Think… think… think… because there’s a prize ahead… Got it in mind? Okay, now I’m going to get more specific. Because we all love A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s a Wonderful Life and Love, Actually and maybe one of the versions of A Christmas Carol. The feel-good classics are hard not […]
Giving Willa A Voice – Jodie Bentley
As a federal judge, Willa Carson of my Hunt for Justice thrillers is never hesitant to make herself heard. That’s why it was so important that I find a strong voice to narrate the audio books Secret Justice and Wasted Justice, starring Willa Carson. When I heard Jodie Bentley’s audition tape, I knew she was the woman […]
Saturday Special: Some Weekend Smiles
Are you enjoying any holiday activities this weekend? I went recently to the Christmas shows at Disney and saw various Spectacles of Lights. The lights are up in Traverse City, too. How beautiful!!! The twinkling beauty reminds me of rookie journalist Jordan Fox’s trip to Haiti in False Truth 5… a place where Jordan encounters […]
Are You A Latent-Lefty, Too?
I’m not left-handed, but lefties are my kindred spirits. Which is one of the reasons Jordan Fox is a lefty. You’re not surprised, are you? Real lefties put up with quite a few inconveniences that we righties hardly ever think about. Spiral notebooks, those awkward school desks with the built-in armrest on the right side, […]
Can Jordan Out-Fox Haitian Kidnappers?
Jordan Fox, 22-year-old television rookie reporter, arrives in Haiti on assignment in my new release False Truth 5: A Jordan Fox Mystery. In Haiti, Jordan learns, life is cheap and crime is rampant. Which means the assignment is dangerously scary. Haiti still has one of the highest rates of kidnapping for ransom in the world. On […]
If Hot Chocolate Were a Thriller Novel…
Like a good thriller, every cup of hot chocolate should have a twist. That’s not necessarily a fact. It probably is. But since we aren’t completely sure, let’s call it a hypothesis that must be tested. TASTE TESTED. By us, the bookworms of the world. It’s our duty! There has never been a better time […]
4 Reasons Intern Jordan Fox Has a Shot at Fame
Intern It’s just about the lowest job on the totem pole, right? Only two spots lower – unpaid intern, and programs where the intern pays for the chance. Internship is an investment in a future career for Jordan Fox, star of False Truth: A Jordan Fox Mystery. Intern Jordan Fox even has a good shot […]
5 Ways to Embrace the Cold
It’s December now… the perfect time, in the words of Judge Willa Carson in Cold Justice, for “Hot chocolate, warm soups. Heavy sweaters, cozy comforters. Blazing fires in the fireplace. Good books.” (Too bad things don’t turn out to be quite that simple on Willa’s vacation!) I posted the above quote on Pinterest, and while […]
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