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False Alarm – Chapter 3 podcast

Here’s chapter 3 of my podcast of my novel, False Alarm. You can also download it free on iTunes. I’d love to hear your comments. Kate’s colleague, Peter, has gotten the firm in hot water by assaulting megalo-agent and firm rival, Randy Nester. Riding high on her success with Pinto’s urine test, Kate gets up her courage to call Pedro. She gets the meeting but domestic problems get in the […]

False Alarm – Chapter 2 podcast

Here’s chapter 2 of my podcast of my novel, False Alarm. You can also download it free on iTunes. I’d love to hear your comments. Kate arrives unannounced at an athlete’s bodyguard’s apartment to convince him to go to a urine test, and stumbles on a lead to the elusive superstar, Pedro.

Tennis tailgate

Do you have any idea how seriously ordinary people take USTA tennis? By that I mean folks who are parents and have jobs and aren’t professional tennis players. I thought it was bad enough that they yell at the refs at Little League games, but they are even harder on themselves. I joined a beginner tennis team, a group of very nice ladies out to have a fun time. Going […]

Alter Ego

I’m podcasting the director’s cut of my novel, False Alarm, a female Jerry Maguire story, free on iTunes. I’ll be reading the novel and talking a bit about working at a sports management firm. Kate McCabe, my alter ego, is trying to make it in the boys’ world of professional sports management. I’m from this world—handholding athletes through their tax returns and drug tests, and badcopping them about their spending […]

Director’s Cut

The director’s cut of my novel, False Alarm, is out. So the publisher of the first edition closed its doors and I got the rights back and bought my books—long story. Then my crazy husband got a call from an unwitting guy wanting to sell me my books, and he told the guy I actually owned them, and the guy very kindly ended up bringing a mountain of them to […]

False Alarm – Chapter 1 Podcast

Here’s chapter 1 of my podcast of my novel, False Alarm. You can also download it free on iTunes. I’d love to hear your comments. Kate McCabe, CFO of a San Francisco firm, which manages the affairs of professional athletes, arrives at the office to the athletes already calling for their money. We meet her all-male colleagues at a meeting, where Kate is obviously a fish-out of water. Her boss […]

Dog arrest

Our neighbors keep calling the police on our dogs. I wish they’d just knock on our door. Dog arrest has become common, dogs disturbing the peace the crime de jour around here in the Silicon Valley Outback. So John and I are out walking the dogs in the hills on Saturday morning and a police car pulls up real slowly. The pretty female officer rolls down her window and says […]

Daisy and Zar

Check out our dogs new tags. I have our German Shepherds, Daisy and Zar, wearing them because this morning John let them both out in the yard and only one dog came back. We were worried sick. We’re fenced in to keep out the deer and the bobcats and mountain lions (you can see where Los Gatos gets its name, The Cats)—although yesterday my brother saw a bobcat in our […]

The Incompatibles

I’m working on finishing my new novel, The Incompatibles, which is set where I live in Los Gatos, California, a character in and of itself. I still consider myself a city girl, and Los Gatos feels like the country in many ways, with the cute folksy town with its dusty antique shops, pink toes from grape stomping parties, the post office just off Main Street, where you run into […]

Bora Bora

By the way, did you know that in Bora Bora you don’t need any certification to scuba dive? That was news to me. John, who has his certification, took me on a boat with a bunch of avid divers—all men. The swarthy French guide told me I just needed to hold his hand and take the plunge with him. It started out OK, the water a brilliant aqua and […]