Author: Sheila Lowe

Sheila Lowe is the author of the Forensic Handwriting psychological suspense series and the Beyond the Veil paranormal series. Her most recent book is Maximum Pressure. You can find out more about her on her website, www.sheilalowebooks.com, or by clicking here, read her last post here, and buy her books here. Sheila Lowe Growing up in a religious cult, I was not allowed to make ‘outside’ friends or participate in sports or clubs at school. When I graduated from Anaheim High School in 1967 I knew only a tiny handful of my nearly 900 Senior classmates (the ones who were also…

Sheila Lowe is the author of the Forensic Handwriting psychological suspense series and the Beyond the Veil series. You can find out more about her on her website, www.sheilalowebooks.com, or by clicking here, read her last post here, and buy her books here. Those who write books don’t do it alone. At least, the professionals don’t. Unless, perhaps, they are JK Rowling or Patricia Cornwell (If JKR cut 200 words from the middle of the last Harry Potter, I wouldn’t miss them). Authors who say “I don’t need an editor” are fooling themselves. As much as we would love to…

Sheila Lowe is the author of the Forensic Handwriting and the Beyond the Veil series. You can find out more about her on her website www.sheilalowebooks.com, or by clicking here, see her last post here, and buy her books here. In 1997 I started writing my first novel, Poison Pen. In 2000 it won 3rd place in a mystery writers competition and I knew I was on my way (ha!). Sara Ann Fried of Mysterious Press was a judge. She wrote about my first twenty pages, “I love the characters. They are slightly over the top in a Jackie Collins…

Sheila Lowe is the author of the Forensic Handwriting suspense series and the Beyond the Veil series. You can find out more about her on her website www.sheilalowebooks.com, or by clicking here, see her last post here, and buy her books here. Twenty-three years ago, when my daughter was killed by her boyfriend, I knew I would write her story. A title came to me right away: Growing from the Ashes. Yet, I couldn’t do it. The ending was just too sad. As a mystery author I write books about murder all the time. But those crimes are solved and…

Sheila Lowe is the author of the Forensic Handwriting series of psychological suspense and the Beyond the Veil series of paranormal mysteries and knows how to do a book launch. You can find out more about her on her website, www.sheilalowebooks.com, or by clicking here, read her last post here, and find her books here. Launch /lôn(t)SH,län(t)SH/ To set in motion by pushing it… In 2007 when my first mystery was published, I might never have thought about giving a party to bring it into the world were it not for Bruce Cook. Bruce, a terrific thriller writer, was one…

Sheila Lowe is the author of the Claudia Rose handwriting analyst and the Beyond the Veil series. You can find out more about her on her website, sheilalowebooks.com, or by clicking here, see her last post here, and find her books here. Change is hard. For the past ten years, I have served as president of an international handwriting analysis organization. When I started in 2012, it was supposed to be a two-year term with one renewal. Suffice it to say, it’s taken a lot longer than that to find someone qualified and willing to take over, and believe me,…

Sheila Lowe is the author of the Claudia Rose Forensic Handwriting series and the Beyond the Veil series. You can find out more about her here, see her books here, and read her last post here. August 3, 2021 was release day for Dead Letters, the eighth book in my Claudia Rose Forensic Handwriting suspense series. It takes a lot of effort to write, release, and promote any new book, so I gave myself some time to do all that, and then some more time to clear my mind and ready it for the next plot. At least, that was…

Sheila Lowe, a real life forensic handwriting expert, is the author of the Claudia Rose forensic handwriting series and the Beyond the Veil series. You can find out more about her here, see her books here, and read her last post here. As someone who does a lot of research to get police procedure right, I’ve been annoyed lately by some flagrantly ridiculous missteps in books and TV shows. But then, I started wondering whether I’m too picky, too correct. Do readers care how much the author sticks to the straight and narrow? There’s got to be poetic license, especially…

Sheila Lowe is the author of two mystery series. Her work as a forensic handwriting analyst inspired the Claudia Rose series. Her other series is Beyond the Veil. You can find out more about her here, see her books here, and read her last post here. When was the last time you moved to a new house/apartment/office? How many boxes did you pack? How long did it take to pack them? How many pieces of furniture had to be loaded into the moving van? And how much junk did you throw away with a sigh of relief? Whether you moved…

Handwriting exeprt and author Sheila Lowe is our latest new Blackbird. You can find out more about her here and see her books here. I made a big decision on Monday. I’m going to self-publish my new book, Dead Letters (#8 in the Claudia Rose psychological suspense series). I’ve been self-pubbing my nonfiction books about handwriting psychology for a couple of years now, but there is something infinitely more daunting about making this choice. It’s something I’ve been waffling over for a few weeks, and I wasn’t entirely sure it was the right thing to do. Then, this happened... Sheila Lowe Yesterday, the day…