For the past year or so, NINC bloggers have provided excellent insight and information on the writing life. My approach as a professional organizer turned novelist is to offer some tips on managing your “real” life so you have time for a “writing” life. Or, at least, avoid a nervous breakdown. So let’s get to [...]

Before I began writing mysteries with such lofty titles as Dying to Decorate and Crime and Clutter, I penned several books on home management. As a result, many people have the impression that I must be highly organized and delightfully domestic. A Midwestern version of the unsinkable Martha Stewart. Just so we get off on [...]