East of Evil Wins Awards

LOCAL WRITER WINS PRESTIGIOUS AWARD FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.:  The Florida Writers Association, Inc., (FWA) has announced East of Evil won two prestigious Royal Palm Literary Awards. East of Evil won the Silver Award in the categories of unpublished Mystery or Crime,...

Unexpected Landing: Stuff Happens

If you fly long enough, you will experience a problem in flight. Maybe you’ll hit a bird. Maybe your wings will ice up. Maybe you’ll get distracted in your pre-landing check and forget to lower the gear. Fuel lines get vapor lock. Gunk clogs the fuel injector. A bug...

Gardenia Garden Club Hosts Author

Rare Evening Event for Club Many thanks to Hostess Lisa Pearce and the Gardenia Garden Club of Winter Haven, Florida for inviting me to talk about my books and my writing process. The club held a rare evening meeting for this event! I was an active member of the club...

Podcast Interview with Frank Zafiro

Frank Scalise (a.k.a. Frank Zafiro) is a cool guy. In the US Army he served in Military Intelligence. After that he rose through the ranks at the Spokane Police Department as an officer, detective, and retired as a Captain after twenty years. An avid reader, he had...

Interview at The Reading Frenzy

The good folks at The Reading Frenzy interviewed me about the third book in the award-winning Compass Crimes Series–West of Famous. In this story, a young woman takes a job as the body double for a celebrity who needs a break from public life. The grad student...