Piper Blackwell Mysteries
Just
Write
That's what I do. I just write. I write with dogs wrapped around my feet and sharing my office chair. Writers and dogs are a good combination.
I'm currently writing a mystery series about a young sheriff in Southern Indiana. Uncozy cozy, someone called them. Police procedurals. A touch of romance, always a murder, and a sprinkling of dogs.
I live on a dead-end street against cornfields. Quiet. A good place to write. There's a yard that's great for tossing tennis balls.
I'm also an avid gamer--boardgames, Dungeons & Dragons. Sometimes I write fantasy filled with dragons and barbarians. Those are my writing roots.
Hope you enjoy my novels and short stories. I am going to keep writing them ... with dogs to keep me company.
Make Book On It
I've written in the neighborhood of sixty novels and well more than one hundred short stories. I can't stop.
Mysteries
I picked up an Ed McBain novel at an airport a long time ago. Fell in love with the 87th Precinct and decided I wanted to step away from fantasy novels and tackle mysteries.
It took me a while, but I came up with The Dead of Winter, a Claymore finalist. And I kept going. I've hit best sellers lists and picked up some awards.
Mysteries fit me fine.
Fantasies
My first novel was a Forgotten Realms tale called Red Magic. Evil wizards, a druid, a centaur, and it was a springboard to Dragonlance fiction, where I had the honor of playing for several trilogies.
Black Heart of the Dragon God with Craig Martelle provided another dip in the fantasy pool.
I think I should write another Goranth the Mighty tale.
Urban Fantasy
I've delved into urban fantasy, too. Mostly by editing various anthologies through the past few decades. But I have a standalone urban fantasy called Pockets of Darkness. It was a finalist for the International Thriller Writers.
The Bone Shroud, which won the Soon To Be Famous writing award for Illinois has a touch of urban fantasy.
And there are a bunch of short stories.
My Dogs
Writers and dogs go together. I suppose writers also go together with cats. But my husband is allergic. So we over-boarded on the dog thing.
Missy is an old one-eyed Boston Terrier.
Hunny is a one-eyed Pug
Jolly is a Corgi with heart issues
Fable is a moose of a Lab
I love my scratch-n-dent pack
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