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Tag: <span>Indiana</span>

Mystery Book Rec: In a Safe Town

Okay, let me start with a disclaimer. Well, with two disclaimers. One: Mystery isn’t my main reading genre. And two: I’ve been reeling since the election on November 8. I’ll be clear here: I was a Bernie Sanders supporter, but I voted for Hillary Clinton. And I am still stunned …

God is in the Detail–Indianapolis Flavor via Research

One thing I absolutely love about writing urban fantasy is how many little details of life in the Indianapolis area I can squeeze in. (Another thing I love is how easy it is to research, compared to something set in a completely made-up secondary world!) I spent a lot of …

Tippecanoe and Tyler Too

Well, not really. But I’ve just noticed that the town where I was born made USA Today. The monument at the Tippecanoe Battlefield was ‘defaced’. The so-called vandals wrote “America repent” and “Tecumsehs not dead” [sic] and “Give us back our spiritual capital.” Everyone is appalled, of course…but me, I …

Storytelling…

Okay, so I owe a couple of stories to people.  First of all, the two truths and a lie… It is a lie that I have smoked pot with my best friend’s husband. I’ve never smoked pot.  In fact once I was offered it most insistently at a Dave Matthews …