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