"How I Became Local Color"
Essay in Mystery Scene #40
Reprinted in Deadly Women
Edited by Jan Grape, Dean James, and Ellen Nehr
Carroll & Graf, 1998, ISBN 0-7867-0468-3, $19.95
"Southern No More?"
Essay in Mystery Scene #42
"Mysteries of the South"
Essay in Mystery Scene #47
Beth, Rocky, Nick
Limericks in Spring 1995 Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine
Mary Higgins, J. Healy, Barbara Paul
Limericks in Fall 1996 Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine
"Confessions of a Freelance Killer
Essay in Mystery Scene #61
"Five Things I Learned by Setting a Book in Boston"
Essay in Spring 2001 Mystery Readers Journal
"Mad About Christmas"
Essay in Mystery Scene #73
"Writing What I Know...About the South"
Essay in Winter 2002-2003 Mystery Readers Journal
"Teasing Out a Story"
Essay in Mystery Scene #78, Winter 2003
"Laura Fleming's Heavenly Eggs"
Recipe in A Second Helping of Murder
Edited by Jo Grossman and Robert Weibezzahl
Poisoned Pen Press, 2003, ISBN 1-59058-077-X, $19.95
"Embracing Anne Rice"
Article in November 2003 Romantic Times BOOKclub