What Do You Do When You Are Forced to Do N-O-T-H-I-N-G?
Many years ago, when I was smack-dab in the midst of my workaholic stage — a penchant I inherited from my father — I vacationed with my then-husband and another couple for eight days in Cancun. Prior to the trip my routine each week was thus: 50+ hours as a public...
Do You Keep a Gratitude Journal? Maybe It’s Time to Raise the Bar
I use a lot of spiral notebooks. One is filled with comical things my son has said through the years. Another logs my eating and exercise routines. (Yeah, that one isn’t used very faithfully.) One is tagged “2009 – Doing One Thing Differently Each...
In Writing: The “How NOT To’s” Are So Much More Fun Than the “How To’s”
When the Farmers Exchange clock on my mantel strikes midnight and I find myself writing a sentence like this one: “Watch out for the tree!” Adriana barked… …well, you know it’s time to get some rest. If you didn’t catch the “Tom Swiftie”...
Books I’m Going to Write Someday
I’ve read that the average person has 50,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. I hope that’s not true because it’s 7 p.m. on Monday as I write this and I’ve only had about 10 thoughts today. Most of them have been about writing books because the rewards of penning something...
Let’s Add a Little Pizzazz to Tax Season
The beginning of February marks that time when all government-required tax forms should have been received. Our toil diminished to numbers. Now the race is on until mid-April when those numbers must be filed. In the interim, we’ll go shopping for a blood-sucking...
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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