


A TRIP TO DUBAI
By Isabella Maldonado Last November, I went to Dubai, where I found an amazing oasis in the desert. If you think flowers are just for vases, think again! The Dubai Miracle Garden is flipping the script on floral displays with their jaw-dropping, larger-than-life sculptures made entirely of...

ON TOUR WITH DEAD WRITERS: A Theatrical Past
By ZJ Czupor ZJ Czupor's On Tour with Dead Writers brings us clues to a mystery author each second Tuesday of the month. Dust off your investigative skills and send your answer to mysteryminutecontest@gmail.com by the 20th of the month. From the correct responses, one will be randomly drawn to win...

LETTING THE RIVER TAKE US
By Jenny Milchman This clip proves I'm not cut out for Cirque du Soleil. But I had so much fun, and if it's not Instagramable–well, maybe it is! Maybe we don't need a Facebook face so long as we're joyful and try to do some good while we're doing whatever it is we do. What if we lived and read and...

FEBRUARY ROGUE ROUNDUP
It’s a Rogue Roundup: See what we Rogues discovered, researched, and talked about in February... We started out the month of love with a guest expert on broken hearts: thriller author and cardiologist Dr. Cristina LePort. LePort went rogue to divulge how over 30 years as a board certified...

INSPIRATION = IDEAS = INVENTION
By Karna Bodman On book tours, a question that I, and many other authors, get is, “Where do you find your ideas?” My answer when it comes to my new – 6th – thriller, Protecting Jess, which will be released on March 11, is it was inspired by two completely different situations. When I served in the...

ON THE ROAD AGAIN…
By Tracy Clark Just checking in. I’m neck-deep into writing my next Det. Harriet Foster novel. Due date looms. But with the writer’s life, there are a lot of moving parts to a writing career – promotion, marketing, reader outreach, and a lot of talking about what you’re doing, how you do it, and...

ON TOUR WITH DEAD WRITERS: Romance among detectives
by Z.J. Czupor ZJ Czupor's On Tour with Dead Writers brings us clues to a mystery author each second Tuesday of the month. Dust off your investigative skills and send your answer to mysteryminutecontest@gmail.com by the 20th of the month. From the correct responses, one will be randomly drawn to...

CRISTINA LEPORT GOES ROGUE
K.J. Howe: Medicine and mayhem—a fabulous combination for a thriller, and Dr. Cristina LePort delivers on both fronts. Cristina, welcome to Rogue Women Writers. By Cristina LePort Growing up in Italy, I never liked school writing assignments. When I came to the USA right after medical school to do...