by Debbi Mack | May 16, 2018 | General
Most people don’t enjoy the idea of doing jury duty. In my case, it gives me a chance to revisit a previous life. I’ve actually served on a jury once before. It was a minor criminal matter, but even so, the tension between two people reached the point where you...
by Debbi Mack | Jan 1, 2018 | General
It is truly a bummer to have to ring in the new year after suffering the loss of Sue Grafton. I’ll never forget the time I met her at Malice, so many years ago. She was a sweetie, not to mention being one the crime authors I found most inspiring around the time...
by Debbi Mack | Sep 25, 2017 | General
This weekend was truly exciting for me. I spent Saturday at my 30-year law school reunion. I went not knowing what to expect or how to feel, but came away feeling great about being a lawyer. Not to mention that it reminded me why I write a mystery series about a...
by Debbi Mack | Jun 19, 2017 | General
This weekend, I happened across a few inspiring tweets that really summed up why I write my books the way I do. Needless to say, I’m inspired to a great extent by the world of hardboiled fiction! 🙂 To wit: I often think about Raymond Chandler’s take on...
by Debbi Mack | Apr 12, 2017 | General
In the interest of sharing further from whence the inspiration for Sam McRae, the protagonist of my first four books—one of which (Identity Crisis) is in print and has been optioned by a movie producer—emerged, let’s go back in time again to that period during...
