by Clea | Aug 31, 2023 | amateur sleuth, Bad Boy Beat, Blue Butterfly, News, News, Uncategorized
I’m so excited about this and it’s finally real! This week, I e-signed the contract – and my new publisher did too. And so it is official: Both my THE BLUE BUTTERFLY and THE BAD BOY BEAT will be published by Severn House, which is now the genre imprint of...
by Clea | Aug 27, 2023 | Amazon, Cats, cozies, cozy mystery, News, News, To Conjure a Killer, witch cats
Kitten season can be murder… When Becca spies a tortoiseshell kitten dodging traffic and chases the tiny tortie down an alley she doesn’t expect to find a dead body. But that’s only the beginning of her troubles in the upcoming TO CONJURE A KILLER,...
by Clea | Aug 24, 2022 | Hold Me Down, Mass Book Award, News, News
Absolutely thrilled to find out that my HOLD ME DOWN has been named a Massachusetts Center for the Book “Must Read”! This wonderful list means my psychological suspense novel is a finalist for the MassBook fiction award, which will be announced in October....
by Clea | Jun 29, 2022 | criticism
If you know me at all, you know I love Hilary Mantel. It was an honor to review this new (old) collection of autobiographical stories, in large part because it was so much fun to dissect what she did with language. Also, I love the illustration that Eva Vazquez did...
by Clea | Jun 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Went to hear the musician John Doe last week. Wonderful songwriter with a deep baritone like velvet – I’ve never heard “Everybody’s Talking at Me” covered so beautifully. Anyway, I ended up chatting with another fan and it turns out she works...
