First, a quick activity update: For my full-time gig, I’ve been spending a lot of evenings and weekends working on prototypes or simply trying to stay on top of new technologies and how they might affect my clients. On top of that, I’ve been helping my brother & sister-in-law create a small apartment in the ground floor of their house, so some other family members can have a nice place to live. And of course, parenting. Then, this weekend, luck finally caught up with me and I had an incident while leading a martial arts training session which resulted in my spending the day in the ER not really having much fun at all. Still recovering today.

For the past month, very little writing has been done. Not for My Favorite Suspects, and not for any other projects in the queue. For example, I’m still trying to get a literary submission together for an excellent online magazine called Roi Fainéant and I have stories planned for SF and other genre magazines.
Pro tip: If you’re visiting an Emergency Department, after the hydrocodone kicks in, you can get some good research done on hospital operations!
I have one goal for this Substack: to share my best work. The problem is that I’m not a fast fiction writer. Journalism and features, yes, I can crank those out. But fiction is a different beast and I’m not a prolific fiction writer.
OK, I have two goals: be high-quality and figure out how to be prolific.
Anyway… the next series after Coyotes in Winter ends will be delayed. Probably until after Labor Day. So I’m asking all of you to hang in there, keep the My Favorite Suspects emails out of your junk folders, and keep the faith. The stories will get better and there will be more.
No more experimental jazz. That didn’t seem to go over well.
Just mysteries & thrillers.
Thanks for reading.