This interview originally ran in The Thrill Begins (see link below for full interview) Debut Spotlight: Isabella Maldonado By Jennifer Hillier I’m so excited to interview Isabella Maldonado for the Debut Author Spotlight. She’s a former police captain, and the...
This post originally ran in the Femme Fatales blog. As a crime fiction writer and reader, did a ripple of unease just go down your spine when you read the title of this post? What if every time you published a book, a renegade website released the first and last page...
People ask me how to give themselves the proverbial kick in the pants to get their draft finished and out into the world. My best advice is to make a declaration. Say it out loud. Set a date for completion, and commit. No one will ever know how brilliant your...
LESA HOLSTINE, book reviewer for the Poisoned Pen, interviewed me for her blog. One of her questions tugged at my heart: Readers will undoubtedly think of your career when they think of Veranda. What was your most unusual experience that you can tell us about? When I...
Renowned blogger and reviewer DruAnn of Dru’s Book Musings asked me to share how Homicide detective Veranda Cruz would spend an average day. Here it is, in Veranda’s own words: I dip my head, narrowly avoiding the size 12 foot lashing out at my jaw. Spinning...
Cool blog site Toe Six Press asked for a peek into my work space. I shared…possibly TMI. You decide! By nature, I’m a neat and organized person, but I’ve noticed an interesting trend. Over the course of writing a novel, increasing levels of entropy creep into my...
Two retired female cops talk fiction vs. reality (this interview was featured in Crime Reads) Isabella Maldonado here, and I’m very honored to speak with fellow cop-turned-author Lissa Redmond. We have an eerily similar journey to writing crime fiction. We both went...
Renowned reviewer and blogger Lesa Holstine of Lesa’s Book Critiques and the Poisoned Pen, asks me what it would be like if my own lead character, badass Homicide detective Veranda Cruz, brought me in for questioning. Every crime fiction author’s worst nightmare....
by Isabella Maldonado There is nothing more personal, more intimate, than your DNA. The very essence of your being, your genetic makeup influences—but does not necessarily determine—many things about who you are. Science that used to be confined to laboratories has...
The real story behind Miranda vs. Arizona For today’s post, I interview retired Phoenix Police Detective Timothy Moore, who has become a subject matter expert on the history of one of the most important legal decisions in US history. He wrote MIRANDIZED NATION, a book...
