Worth Your Weight In Pie Newsletter Field Notes from the world of Silas Lopez ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ...
Newsletter — April 2026
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Reviews Archive — The Washashore
This is where I'm collecting and posting trade reviews of the The Washashore as they come in. Provincetown's new police chief must whip the local force into shape while tackling a fatal hit-and-run case in Mirabile's vivid series opener. Silas Lopez has just settled...
Why I Self-Publish
People sometimes ask why I chose the self-publishing route. For me, it came down to fit. For what I'm trying to do, self-publishing was the better path—and it wasn't close. Creative Outlet First, I wanted a creative outlet. I was an English major and always thought...
Newsletter — March 2026
Worth Your Weight In Pie Field notes from the world of Silas Lopez. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ...
First Bookstore Launch Event
Launch day for The Washashore is just three weeks away and we've made the arragements for the my first ever bookstore event. With some networking help from a good friend we found the perfect moderator: a leadership coach who has been building a side hustle doing...
The Sweet Relief of Not Being Panned
I just experienced something that a writer—or performer or artist—only gets once in a lifetime: my first professional trade review. And thank my lucky stars, they didn’t come for me. In fact, quite the opposite. My first two professional reviews arrived at the same...
Adventures in Book Marketing—I Went to TikTok So You Didn’t Have To
I am not a social media person. I’m a 59-year-old adult with college and graduate degrees, a long attention span, a deep suspicion of any technology designed to make people dance in their kitchens, and a general belief that most things worth doing can be accomplished...
Newsletter — February 2026
Worth Your Weight In Pie (Action Requested in This One!) Field notes from the world of the Silas Lopez Mysteries. (Pre-orders Just Opened!) ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ...
Career Milestone Unlocked! ✅
When I started out on this journey toward becoming a fiction author, I had no idea what to expect. It turned out to be a lot harder, a lot more entrepreneurial, and a lot more work than I anticipated. The writing and editing are the stumbling blocks people typically...
Inside the Scene: Foggy Salt Marsh
The Scene Excerpt: The Washashore, Chapter 37 When they’d crossed the low bridge over the salt marsh, the remaining traces of dawn fog drifted between the reeds and out over the marsh’s main channel. It filtered the gathering light and nearly obscured the doe crossing...