by Pamela Beason | Apr 24, 2014 | Everyday Chaos, The Writing Life
“Hi, I’m Rae Ellen Lee, an internationally unknown author,” my friend says to the bicycle rider who has stopped to chat with us in a Utah canyon. Rae Ellen is more forward and much funnier than I am, and I love this line. It cuts through the embarrassing...
by Pamela Beason | Apr 16, 2014 | Everyday Chaos, Natural Wonders, The Writing Life
Today I’m in Escalante, Utah, sharing good times with my intrepid author friend Rae Ellen Lee. This is the first time I’ve been back to Canyon Country since I used it as the setting for my novel Endangered, and as we explore the area, I am reminded of several...
by Pamela Beason | Mar 29, 2014 | Private Investigator, The Writing Life
Fair Warning: This post discusses unidentified corpses, so if you don’t want to think about death and missing persons, click away right now. As a private investigator, on the very first missing persons search I worked on, I found that the individual was...
by Pamela Beason | Mar 24, 2014 | Everyday Chaos, The Writing Life
I just returned from four days at Left Coast Crime in beautiful Monterey, California, and I am exhausted. I can’t decide whether my fatigue is from multiple mornings when I had to arise at 3:30 a.m. to make my flight, or because I’m an introvert and crowds...
by Pamela Beason | Mar 10, 2014 | Natural Wonders, The Writing Life
After a surprisingly heavy snowfall (for my coastal area), I decided to pull on my hiking boots and stroll the 1.5 miles to my favorite park while the scenery was coated in white. The trail was only a bit slippery and the frosting of snow made thick woods and...
by Pamela Beason | Mar 2, 2014 | Everyday Chaos, The Writing Life
When I heard about the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Seattle this year, I was 1) perplexed about why I didn’t already know about it and 2) eager to go investigate. So I signed up to help out with a vendor booth–Chanticleer...