Cold Case In Ellyson

Having little or no warmth. Not affectionate, cordial or friendly. Lacking in passion, emotion, enthusiasm. Chilled. With complete competence, thoroughness, or certainty, as in he learned his speech cold. It’s a complicated word. Four little letters with a multitude of meanings. In my book, Cold Case in Ellyson, the word “cold” has a double meaning…cold […]

I fell in love late in life, with baseball. I’ve been an athlete of some sport all my life and today play competitive tennis, but baseball was just a mere blip on my sport radar. But as is often the case, when you love someone, you love what they love. That love began to beat […]

Police work is in my blood, genes, that is. My grandfather was Sheriff in Alabama for many years in the 50s. I imagine back then that law enforcement officers were treated with more respect than today, that crime wasn’t as rampant, that you only had to carry one weapon, and then, not always. My grandfather […]

So I’ve talked about some of my police work that provides much of the detail in Cold Case in Ellyson, but there is another side to me, the girly girl, the debutante. Who cares? you must be asking yourself… But it is important to the story. I am more than one kind of person, and […]

When I decided to leave police work and get my master’s in English, I never dreamed I would have to read so much. Of course, most all of the books we studied were the classics written by authors such as Shakespeare, Plato, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, Melville, just to name a few. I fell in […]

Okay, not exactly. But she did spy on people by using approved methods like the ever-present, ever-on scanner. Why she originally got one I’ll never know. But she loved listening to the police and emergency personnel over the airways to find out where the action was. That’s how she found out my Dad was about […]

I visited Brewton, Alabama earlier this week to introduce myself to their newspaper staff. Just like you would expect, I was greeted with Southern hospitality. Even though my family from there has long-since died or moved away, they were interested in hearing my legacy of law enforcement that began with my grandfather who served as […]

Well, I am. And I have  a book to prove it.  It’s called Cold Case in Ellyson.  Why “Cold Case?” In my varied life’s experiences, I was a cop in a small town. Why “Ellyson?” It’s an area near where I grew up in the South.  And what makes me a writer?  I’ve always had […]