Two of my scripts made the quarter finals in competitions this month!

Loving Mariachi made it to the quarter finals of the Filmmatic Screenplay Competition. https://www.filmmatic.com/comedyseason6

Venetian Love Tricks made it to the quarter finals of Scriptation.

https://scriptation.com/blog/scriptation-showcase-script-competition-announces-2021-feature-shorts-quarter-finalists/

Fingers crossed for the semi-finals.... but at least these scripts got ahead of a lot of other ones. 

Piano piano si va lontano. Slowly, we go far.

Just out--the new Desert Sleuth anthology SoWest: Love Kills. The Phoenix Sisters-in-Crime group gathers its best stories every two years. This year my short story "Nightshift" made the list. The tale is Meli's backstory. It explains the reason she no longer worries about a confrontation with her no-good husband. The story includes Rachel, whose journey started with Amirosian Nights, and Kique, who becomes Andy's sidekick starting with Dizzy in Durango.

The stories were not only carefully chosen, but very carefully edited. We went through three rounds of revisions! But I'm happy to say I was excited with my final version. And in the anthology I'm in great company with other colleagues including Shannon Baker and Susan Cummins Miller.

For murdering fun, pick up a copy on Amazon.