I Digress…

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...

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...