Early last spring I had to take some time off to handle a family health crisis.

That hiatus pretty much ended all of my social media activities and for a good long time curtailed my writing.

The crisis has ended, and we are now moving on.

More, as they say, to come.

As I sat through session after session at ThrillerFest 2014 last month, I wondered how to tell the genres apart.

Then someone cited Jeffery Deaver’s formula (paraphrased):

A mystery is about what happened; a thriller is about what is going to happen.

I rather like that.