5 of the Most Haunting Places to Visit in Savannah, GA
After my son Matt, then a teenager, visited Savannah for the first time, I asked him to describe the city in one or two words. His immediate response: “Haunting.” I had to agree. Few places produce that looking-over-my-shoulder feeling that Savannah does. No surprise...
Undergoing Southernization – the Second Tier of What to Expect
Hi ya’ll. I’m writing to you from my somewhat-new home deep in the heart of Dixie. My house sell in the mid-Atlantic region is now behind me, and full Southernization is underway. “The South” — commonly referred to as the American South or Dixie — leans toward...
Your Go-To List for Housewarming Ideas
Moving into a new home is a significant event, often marking both the culmination of one dream and the beginning of another. Knowing that the move may be a poignant moment for someone special, why not celebrate it with a thought, gift or ritual (or all three) that...
Questions to Accelerate Good Conversation
I began my professional life as a journalist, before moving into public relations and working on the other side of the microphone and the camera. Through those early years, I developed a list of questions that I used to draw out the “human” side of my...
Are You a Music Fan?
A beta reader for Crossing into the Mystic suggested that I was showing my age by having my character Clay – a young, brave, dashing, handsome guy, of course – describe the Eagles’ Greatest Hits album as the best one ever produced. Clay shares this thought while...
Historical intrigue interwoven with modern-day suspense and a touch of the mysterious.
Contemporary romantic suspense.
Coming-of-age sagas.
About Koontz’s Writing:
An award-winning writer, former journalist and corporate escapee, D. L. Koontz writes about what she knows: muddled lives, nail-biting unknowns and eternal hope. Growing up, she learned the power of stories and intrigue from saged storytellers on the front porch of her Allegheny Mountains farmhouse. Despite being waylaid for years by academia and corporate endeavors, her roots proved that becoming a writer of suspense was only a matter of time. She has been published in seven languages.
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