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Library Apps, Creepy Notebooks, and Epiphanies about Writing
In addition to sharing my work here, I’ve also been writing for WOW! Women on Writing for many years. I blog for them about once a month, and thought I’d share some of my recent blog posts, where I share the app I can’t live without, my true crime journal, and how my writing style has evolved over the years. Enjoy! Why I Love the Libby App Excerpt: Through the Libby app I’ve been able to request and read books, magazines, and audiobooks, all for free! What’s even better is that I can “send” books directly to my Kindle for easier reading. I manage all my loans in the app, and if I…
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Book Review: Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda
If you’re looking for a suspense/thriller with a foreboding setting, I recommend Megan Miranda’s new novel, Daughter of Mine. Megan Miranda is the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls; The Perfect Stranger; The Last House Guest, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick; The Girl from Widow Hills; Such a Quiet Place; The Last to Vanish; and The Only Survivors. She has also written several books for young adults. She grew up in New Jersey, graduated from MIT, and lives in North Carolina with her husband and two children. Here’s a synopsis of the book: When Mirror Lake’s longtime detective dies suddenly, his daughter Hazel Sharp is wary of returning to the town (and people) she left behind almost…
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What Happened to Peggy Carr in Wilmington, N.C.?
Peggy Carr grew up in Toledo, Ohio and subsequently moved to Wilmington, N.C., to be with her fiancé and plan their wedding. On April 18, 1998, 32-year-old Carr left home to run a few errands. She left a note for her fiancé on the refrigerator that read, “Be back soon.” But she would not be back soon, and it wasn’t until seven months later that her remains would be found. After she disappeared, her mother Penny Carr Britton, along with other family members, traveled to North Carolina to begin searching for their daughter. In an article that ran in the Wilmington Star News, Britton credited CUE, or the Community United Effort Center for…