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by M.L. Buchman I'm still busy recovering from the release of Light Up the Night . Trisha O'Malley had been kicking her heels in frustration at not getting her own story and she's damn glad that she finally did. (No! No! Shhhh! Don't get her started or we're all in trouble.) She wandered aboard in Book #1 The Night is Mine  and kept showing up in subsequent books. She fought beside Emily Beale, was interviewed by Connie Davis, and did her best to seduce Tim Maloney. And she did all of this despite my best efforts, she's a little pushy that way. Just like the helicopter she flies. The MH-6M Little Bird attack version, small, feisty, and dangerous. MH-6M Little Bird and 75th Rangers visit NASCAR It's only when she is faced with SEAL Lieutenant Bill Bruce, who she immediately tags as "Billy the SEAL," that she meets her match. And she does her absolute best to resist him...right until a moment aboard "Old Ironsides." I fin...

Rockaway Beach, OR Mark and I just returned from a week-long vacation to the Pacific Northwest which involved many modes of transportation: an Amtrak sleeper car, a couple of taxicabs, a Hertz rental car,  and a drive-aboard BC Ferry ride. This "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" trip made me think about transportation - or rather, how writers use transportation to convey important information about our characters' lives, attitudes, abilities and worldviews. Here are a couple of examples from my Underbelly Chronicles series:   TASTE ME's hero, incubus security guru Lukas Sebastiani, is linebacker-sized, and has a need for speed: "Come on, we need to get inside." He scoped out the parking lot and the shoreline of the Mississippi River, and then stood in front of her to cut off as many angles as he could with his body. She eyed the space between them. "Can you give me a little room, please?"  "No." She sighed. "What's u...