Wednesday, 11th May -- My precious Eli died peacefully at home yesterday with all those who loved him around him. I will always think of him as the defender of Sausalito from the faux Fido pirates and picture him meeting his brother Peyton in Heaven, both strapping on their cutlasses, just in case. It was his 13th birthday. We will all miss him and he will be in our hearts until ours give out.
Halloween's coming up fast, the day the zombies burst out of the ground and terrify the crap out of us, not to mention eat our candy and eat our brains. Update on BOMBSHELL, the 17th FBI Thriller: I' Halloween's coming up fast, the day the zombies burst out of the ground and terrify the crap out of us, not to mention eat our candy and eat our brains. Update on BOMBSHELL, the 17th FBI Thriller: I'm nearly finished with the edit. The cover is very cool, explodes with eye-popping color. BOMBSHELL is set in Maestro, Va., (the setting of the 10th FBI thriller, POINT BLANK) and in Washington. JEWEL OF THE LION (first thriller in A Brit in the FBI series partnered with J.T. Ellison). JEWEL moves fast and you don't know what's going to happen on the next page, and you're biting your toenails or a zombie's toenails. J.T. is an excellent plotter and that means when we brainstorm no plot gets left behind. Alas, no kids want candy enough to crawl up our oxygen-deprived steep driveway, and the sad thing is, I still have a big bowl of candy, every year, but no one comes, not even the zombies with brain bags. Take care, Catherine ...more