Happy Halloween! It’s time for stomping on crunchy leaves, enjoying a warm pot of charro beans, and some moments alone in the dark with your favorite scary story. Flashlight under the chin optional! Let’s start with the suspense and thrills of Last Seen in Gothic: The plaque outside Gothic’s Live Oak Restaurant read: On stormy… Read More

It’s been months of back and forth with the creative souls in the Canary Street Books art department, but we have a cover…. annnd… I don’t love it. Don’t get me wrong, it’s good, but it’s giving me Texas sky when a tornado is forming vibes. This cover makes me jumpy, uncomfortable, threatened…in suspense. Wait…… Read More

When life gives you a potato that looks like Voldemort, what else can you do but make a video? I mean, sure, it’s stupid — but it’s funny! Bonus: Afterward Voldemort was baked and eaten. With butter and sour cream. And bacon. And cheese. Seemed appropriate. Want to thwart the evil Voldemort and learn more… Read More

Sadly, the WELCOME TO GOTHIC sale was Tuesday, May 16th. Want to be notified of all future sales? Please join my newsletter friends, I’d love to welcome you!        Listen to an excerpt. Read an excerpt:           Wendy expected a flutter of moths or a funky smell, but instead it smelled like…the theater, a smell she… Read More

Forget what you know…yet the past remembers. Need a gift for you, your friend, and your mother? (Mother’s Day is May 14!) Get your autographed copies of FORGET WHAT YOU KNOW from the Poisoned Pen Bookstore. They ship anywhere in the world! Poisoned Pen Bookstore Phone: (480) 947-2974 Toll Free: (888) 560-9919 Email: sales@poisonedpen.com If… Read More

Hardcover Trade Paperback eBook Audio More Buying Options             When Luca thought of someone deliberately trying to kill his wife, he did not secretly want to roar in fury.             As if she read his mind, Zoey said, “I am no longer your wife.”             “I am aware.” Tell that… Read More

Now an audiobook exclusive! Listen to an excerpt. WELCOME TO GOTHIC, a Time Travel romantic suspense and audiobook exclusive, out now for your reading enjoyment. A novella companion to Christina Dodd’s popular Last Seen in Gothic series starring POINT LAST SEEN, on sale now, and FORGET WHAT YOU KNOW, coming March 7! Become a mailing list friend… Read More

On stormy nights, Gothic is said to disappear and on its return, it brings lost souls back from the dead. — The Legend of Gothic California Today On a beach below Gothic… Adam Ramsdell saw something long and black rolled in on the swells, a long parcel of…plastic? It disappeared under the first line of… Read More

This sale was one day only, November 20, 2022. Please join my mailing list for timely news about book sales, book releases and funny insights into the writing life. Join!  Read a sample newsletter called “I did not get arrested” for your daily laugh! WRONG ALIBI is a homage to one of my favorite stories, The… Read More

The Husband: “Toothpicks? I can’t find toothpicks? Toothpicks are caught in the supply chain?” The Daughter: “Cucumber plants? There are pepper plants, tomato plants, basil plants, but no cucumber plants? Cucumber plants are caught in the supply chain?” My agent: “I spoke to your publisher and due to unforeseen circumstances, they’ve had to move the… Read More