Author of the Li Johnson Murder Mysteries
Daniel Stallings will be attending the Men of Mystery event in Long Beach, CA to promote his Li Johnson mystery books! As a special event for this amazing gathering, he and Master Mystery Productions has created I SPY A CRIME SCENE, an interactive murder mystery puzzle for guests at Men of Mystery to try and… Continue reading Li Johnson is Coming to Men of Mystery
Clean Up on Aisle Six, the second book in the Li Johnson Mysteries, is on sale now wherever books are sold for preorder. The book officially releases on October 1, 2019. The Minimum Wage Manhunter is back, bagging groceries and a killer. After solving a murder at his last low-paying job, 20-year-old Li Johnson thought… Continue reading Preorder Clean Up on Aisle Six
At a critique group meeting several years ago, one member expressed a concern common to all creative people. He wanted his work to be “original.” What did that mean? What followed was one of the most interesting conversations I had on the idea of originality and what it takes to be a true original with… Continue reading A True Original
If there’s one piece of advice I could give to any aspiring writer, it’s finish something. As creative people, our heads will be constantly filled with unfinished projects, scraps of inspiration, little raggedy bits of ideas we glean from life. That’s how we create in the first place. But, and I hate to play the… Continue reading Follow Through
Most of us don’t go through life expecting a disaster. But sometimes, life takes a turn none of us were expecting. A frightening turn. A life-changing turn. For Ridgecrest and Trona, that turn came in the form of the July 2019 earthquakes. During the July meeting of my writers’ club, members expressed how hard it… Continue reading Sail On
