The Indie Journey: Secrets to Writing Success by JA Konrath

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Scott Nicholson: The real joy of the creative life, or any life, is when you have all the time and money to do whatever you want, and you discover you were already doing it.

Burial To Follow by Scott Nicholson

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The Ridgehorn kitchen was a mouth-watering shrine. The island counter, made of polished oak and topped with 1950’s Formica, the kind you couldn’t chip with a hatchet, was piled high with the fruits of condolence: a sweet potato pie, with pecan halves floating face-down in its burnt-orange sea; glazed ham, ringed with pineapple slices and brown sugar; green bean casserole, though beans were out of season so they must have come from some basement-stashed Mason jar; gallons of sweetened tea and diet Coke and banana pudding and gravy.