I did it. I published four books in one year. I feel as though I just swam the English Channel. What was I thinking? I have no idea. I wasn’t thinking. I was just doing. After years of working full time and futzing around, waiting for the “time to write,” working on my historical mystery…

I love research. I can’t resist going down an Internet rabbit hole to find contemporaneous accounts of a particular event — like NYC Mayor Gaynor’s funeral in 1913. How crazy is it that there was an attempted assassination on his life in 1910, and then he died three years later from the bullet, which was…