Piecework Newsletter

Read the newsletters from Sandra Dallas for news about upcoming books, stories, Sandra's Picks and reviews:

Tough Luck is Coming in April

Volume XXV, Issue Three | December 2024 I don’t remember where I got the idea for Tough Luck. I don’t remember when I wrote it. I don’t...

A Trip Into the Past

Volume XXV, Issue Two | September 2024 The first time I saw Breckenridge was 1961. I’d just bought a 1958 Austin-Healey. So a friend and...

Adam ’n’ Eve, Murphy, and Clean Up the Kitchen

Volume XXIV, Issue One | June 2024 I love slang. Well, not personally. I try not to use it in conversation. But in writing, slang is a...

Two More Books!

Volume XXIII, Issue Five | Dec 2023 I thought when Where Coyotes Howl was published, I was finished writing books. It’s not that I wanted...

What’s In A Name – And What Isn’t

Volume XXIII, Issue Four | Sept 2023 Open a book, and see the names Megan and Justin, and you can be sure the story is about a...

Why I Love Signings!

Volume XXIII, Issue Three | June 2023 I never met a bookstore I didn’t like. I’ve had wonderful signings at chain stores. I will always...

Where Coyotes Howl

Volume XXIII, Issue One | March 2023 Some 40 years ago, I wrote a Denver Post review of the autobiography of a cowboy. In the early 20th...

Tenmile, My Fifth Midgrade Book

Volume XXII, Issue Four | Dec 2022 “Why don’t you write a book about a girl who wants to be a doctor?” my Sleeping Bear editor Barb...