An Invitation: Meet Fina Fitzgibbons

Fina Fitzgibbons, short and stocky, born and bred in Brooklyn, is an orphan in her late…

Meet Lorraine McDuffy

Death of a Brooklyn Landlord is the first book in a spinoff series. It takes place…

Terre de Fer Frog, a Story

On one of our trips to Paris in the 1980s, Larry and I found this pitcher in…

How to Split or Merge Scenes in Scrivener

What I love most about Scrivener is the ease of writing in scenes and moving them around…

How to Compile a Sparkling mobi in Scrivener for Windows

Recently I wrote a post showing how I compile my ebooks in Scrivener on the Mac.…

Perception and Reality: Death of a Sad Face

Death of a Sad Face is a Serafina short. It began life as part of an anthology…

How To Compile A Smashing Doc in Scrivener – Pt I

This is Part 1 of a three-part series. It’s a simple how to compile a smashing…

A List of Compound Words – Updated

My List of Compound Words I keep a list of compound words. Some of the words…

How to Create a Hyper TOC in 3 Easy Steps

How to Compile a Smashing Doc in Scrivener—Pt 3—Creating a TOC This is the last of a…

Meet Fina Fitzgibbons

Fina Fitzgibbons, short and stocky, born and bred in Brooklyn, is an orphan in her late…

How to See Tweet Replies

People seldom reply to my tweets. Let’s face it, in the great scheme of twitter volume,…

Understanding the Chaos of the World

Whiskey’s Gone, the third book in the Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn mystery series, is available on Amazon as an e-book.…

A Ride on the Petite Ceinture

From 1852 until its partial abandonment in 1934, the petite ceinture was a circular connection between Paris’s…

The Sweep of the Wind

Here’s an excerpt from a short mystery, Death of a Sad Face. It stars Serafina, midwife, widow,…

The Remote Chance of a Ca-Chink

Meet Rosa, Serafina’s sidekick, a successful businesswoman. For most of her life, she ran a large…

Ten Advantages To Surviving Your Own Death

One of my characters, Serafina, has a mother, Maddalena who survives her own death. This, according…

All That Catholic Jargon

Meet Lorraine. She’s Denny’s mom. Denny is Fina’s husband. Fina is the main character in the…

Worse than Being Clueless

Dorset in the Dark is Fina’s sixth book. It’s a mystery, although from the opening chapter it’s…

Dorset: A Lost Child

Dorset in the Dark is Fina’s sixth book. It begins with a crazed woman slumped over on…

Don Tigro’s Backstory

Don Tigro is the villain in the Serafina Florio historical mysteries. His story begins in Death of…

Rosa

Rosa’s a very important character in the Serafina Florio mystery series. For one thing, she’s Serafina’s…