Our first stop as ghost hunters was the Hassayampa Inn in Prescott, Arizona. According to local legend, in 1927, Faith was the much younger, new bride of an older gentleman, and they chose the Hassayampa Inn in Prescott, Arizona to honeymoon. Faith’s husband went out to buy cigarettes and never returned. After a few days […]
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Ep 1: Meet the Ghost Hunters
I’m Riley Longhill, and my dog Geist and I are ghost hunters. Okay, okay, I confess. I’m new to this ghost-hunting business. You see, my mother died last year, and her death really brought home how truly short life is. A few months after her death, I took a good, hard look at my life, […]
The Writing Journey: Lost in the Wilderness
After I made the decision to cut off my writer’s soul (to stop writing fiction and focus exclusively on building my copy and marketing company), I basically found myself lost in the wilderness. Although, I didn’t realize it at the time. What I DID know was that I kept finding myself in the middle of […]
Book Review: “The Good Girl” by Mary Kubica
One night, Mia Dennett enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn’t show, she leaves with an enigmatic stranger. At first, Colin Thatcher seems like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home turns out to be the worst mistake of Mia’s life. “The Good Girl” is the second book […]
The Writing Journey: Cutting Myself off from My Writing Soul
The early 2000’s were not kind to my writing career. In 1998, I quit my job to become a freelance copywriter. Part of the reason why I wanted to start my writing business is because I thought I would have more time to work on my novels. I was wrong. Within the first five years […]
Book Review: “Don’t You Cry” by Mary Kubica
In downtown Chicago, Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to “My Dearest” is found among her possessions, leaving her roommate Quinn Collins to question how well she really knew her friend. Meanwhile, in a small town an hour outside Chicago, a mysterious woman appears in the quiet coffee […]
The Writing Journey: How I Almost Let a Bad Review Derail My Career
In November 2015, I published my first novel, “The Stolen Twin.” And in launching that book, I did pretty much everything completely wrong. I’ll detail all my book marketing mistakes in another post, but today, I want to share how I very nearly pulled the plug on my fiction writing career, right at the cusp […]
Announcing: The Completion of the First Draft of “This Happened to Jessica”!
Wow. Just. Wow. All my books have a bit of a story behind the writing. “Mirror Image” (which I wrote first but published second) took me about twenty years to write. I got the initial idea when I was a teenager, and it took all that time to get a real handle on how that […]
Book Review: “The Lying Game” by Ruth Ware
The day after a dog charges into the water after a stick but discovers something more sinister, three women in and around London—Fatima, Thea, and Isabel—receive a text they had always hoped would NEVER come from the fourth in their formerly inseparable clique, Kate, that says only, “I need you.” Even though I had some […]
The Writing Journey: How the Eclipse Changed My Writing Life
2017 will forever be remembered as the year I became a writer. That likely sounds strange to you. After all, I’m a professional copywriter. I’ve been earning a living as a writer since 1998 when I started my freelance copy business. I began the transformation into owner of a copywriting and marketing company in 2004. […]