viola valentine

A Novel Idea

"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." —Gene Fowler

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."

—Isaac Asimov

The Arkansas town inspired the first Viola Valentine mystery by Cherie Claire.

Sometimes everything falls into place. I'm showering, looking at the droop in the shower curtain for the millionth time. When we moved...

I thought I was in hog’s heaven, as my mother used to say, when I bought my South Louisiana house and turned the dining room into my...

Visiting the Golden Isles of Georgia, I found my latest story.