What's happening with Debra H. Goldstein...

During those intense, isolating Covid years, my wife and I watched just about every streaming detective series we could find. Some were riveting, others meh, a few downright boring, but most of them shared one peculiar characteristic: The crime solver–whether a cop, detective, PI, amateur sleuth, male or female–was, one way or another, semi-dysfunctional. They […]

I invented a virus. Fortunately, I did it in a novel. When I started writing The Hellraiser, the third book in my Charlie Martens series, I wanted to take the science a little further than I had in my previous books. I had spent most of my working life as a doctor, so I have […]

Words are the instruments with which writers ply their trade. On good days, the work seems to magically flow in an unending stream. On others, a writer may lean on a dictionary or thesaurus in search of a perfect word to set the tone, or describe a character, or ensure that the language reflects the […]