In simple terms, public relations is having a story/interview/book reported by the media as news. Resulting articles and interviews are therefore treated as credible information, not as a paid advertisement.

But to a PR pro, there is nothing simple about a competent app...

Originally featured in "Your Secret Library Mystery Magazine" https://issuu.com/booksgosocial/docs/mystery_issue_16_11

Only when I began writing novels, did I realize that I had been looking at my life as a puzzle. I never set out with a plan, but took delight in follow...

No surprise, I’m not perfect. Nor the most attractive or smartest person in the room. But when I sit down in a totally quiet environment I can pretend to be all the things that elude me in life. Since I bore easily, I spice up my tales featuring women in dynamic career...

The financial news report said that there were no women heading up a hedge fund. And there began a tale of how one woman founded a firm and another wanted to destroy her.

Have you ever read something to which you had a visceral reaction? And was that reaction “why not”?...

There is nothing new in the recent kerfuffle surrounding Harvey Weinstein. We have seen it before with Presidents Clinton and JFK, and many politicians present and in preceding eras. The shame falls not only on their bad behavior, but on those who aided and abetted its...

I conceive my tales of corporate crime featuring women in dynamic careers by identifying some aspect that differentiates them from men placed in similar situations. This isn’t a sexist point-of-view, rather a celebration of those characteristics women bring to their bu...

What if? - This is often the place writers start when beginning to create their fictional tales. I suggest it is also a good place to reconsider women in the workplace.

What if women began to think of themselves as people first and women second? Instead of comparing the...

Just as Agatha Christie set her mysteries in a country estate, ship or train, a business is also a closed universe inhabited by a cast of characters given all manner of foibles and under taking actions both good and evil. As for featuring strong women as protagonists,...