Author: joanna

Ta-Da! Check Out My New, Improved Website

I’ve been on hiatus for a few weeks. A handful of my regular  readers/subscribers contacted me to ask what’s going on? Well, while I wasn’t blogging, I was working on a big re-vamp of this website.

By the beginning of this year, I had 260 blogs posted here. I wanted to streamline them into a few recognizable categories — which I think I’ve now done. Go ahead. Check out my Welcome and About Me Pages and the Topics widget in the sidebars of those Pages. Continue reading “Ta-Da! Check Out My New, Improved Website”

Trust Me: You’ll See Tanya in White Lotus Season 3

Maybe, I’m sticking my neck out, but based on all the tell-tale clues in the last episode of season 2 and my own experience as a mystery/suspense writer, I’m predicting Tanya will return in White Lotus Season 3. Continue reading “Trust Me: You’ll See Tanya in White Lotus Season 3”

Here’s A Really Good Book Deal. Seriously. Take A Look

If you’re planning a holiday getaway by the end of this year, you know you can’t load up your suitcase with hardcover books. Much better to carry 200 of your top TBR titles in a handy dandy Kindle. And, just in time for the holidays, my latest thriller, Fool Her Once, is available as a Kindle e-book for $0.99. Continue reading “Here’s A Really Good Book Deal. Seriously. Take A Look”

Why Won’t Anyone Admit It? You Just Can’t Make Brussels Sprouts Taste Good

I could have put a serious dent into the 850-pages I have left to read of Dickens’s Bleak House. I could have (finally) finished my friend, Eldon Farrell’s latest novel, The Last Goodbye ( It is, after all, dedicated to me!)

I could have spent an hour (or a couple of them) staring at the Twitter and Instagram posts from the Palm Beach Book Festival (@pbbookfestival) where Fool Her Once was just named as the thriller of the year! Continue reading “Why Won’t Anyone Admit It? You Just Can’t Make Brussels Sprouts Taste Good”

Are You Looking For A Really Good Book? Here’s A Novel Way To Find It

Promise. This is not going to be a blog about my latest thriller. Today, I’m more interested in how you decide to purchase a book or borrow it from the library.

Do you decide after reading a review in the mainstream media? Or because the novel is by one of your very favorite authors? Or because the book is a featured deal on Bookbub? Or because you’re looking for a certain type of book in a genre you enjoy?

I’ve been thinking about this ever since Ben Fox emailed me back in August. Ben emailed out of the blue to tell me he is the founder of a new website, shepherd.com, which he hopes “will eventually rival Goodreads.” Continue reading “Are You Looking For A Really Good Book? Here’s A Novel Way To Find It”