A Hot Flash of Homicide takes place in the fictional Florida town of Flamingo Cove. The city is located on the Gulf Coast of Florida, between Tampa and the Withlacoochee State Forest. Flamingo Cove is home to the Ward family. Four generations of cops. Wysdom Ward is our heroine. She just turned 40 and found […]
Careful, or you’ll end up in my next novel I saw this on a t-shirt and laughed hard because it’s true. I can’t speak to what other writers do but I’m always eavesdropping on conversations out in the world. I don’t really try that hard to do it and I don’t go out of my […]
A Hot Flash of Homicide is the first novel by author Dawn Dugle and the first book in the Flamingo Cove series. On the day she turns 40, an embattled police sergeant learns that she’s not only come down with a terrible case of peri-menopause but that she may never make detective. When she gets […]
Would you sign up for a job that was 60 hours a week, paid nothing and you ended up sweaty and dirty every day – despite having to show up in a suit to the office? Odds are, most people would say no. But for those of us in journalism, we line up – in […]
The first thing you notice about Ginger Thomas’ home is how relaxing and soothing it is. Various shades of blues and turquoise flow from room to room, just like the ocean that inspires her abstract art. “I love the water – oceans, rivers, lakes, being on the water, being outside,” Ginger said. “I use a […]
Steve Azar has an infectious kind of positive energy. When he’s excited about a project or a song, he practically bounces off the walls and you wonder if he ever sits down – or finds time to sleep. Azar was born in the Mississippi Delta – the birthplace of the blues. When he was ten […]
The weather outside was stormy but it was nothing compared to the atmosphere inside the Delta Sky Club in Salt Lake City. Flights had been delayed or grounded and scores of passengers were mad as hell. Some were yelling at ticket agents. Some were being nasty to the wait staff. Some were yelling into phones. […]
September 19th is one of my favorite holidays – albeit a made-up one: International Talk Like a Pirate Day. And shiver me timbers… today I’m sharing how a pirate could teach you a lot about marketing. Rules? What rules? Pirates, privateers and buccaneers didn’t let regular or governmental rules get in the way of owning […]