Happy new year – and new books!

Wow, what a week. A week ago today, Musetta was still with us. Still herself. But maybe something had already changed. I was sitting at my desk, writing, and she came over and reached up to me – grabbing onto my thigh with her claws and asking to be lifted onto my...

Some cheering news (new books!)

This happened this week, too. More cat mysteries on the way. So that is cheering! From Publishers Marketplace: September 21, 2017Digital: Fiction: Mystery/Crime Author of the Pru Marlowe series Clea Simon’s A SPELL OF MURDER, the first in her new “Witch...

And then there was Musetta….

Again, from The Feline Mystique (St. Martin’s, 2002):In early March, we go to Texas and close-dance at the Broken Spoke. We eat barbecue, and buy cowboy boots. (THat’s not why we went, but as I admire my ostrich-clad feet, I must say it was a high point.)...

Remembering Cyrus, 1984-2001

(from The Feline Mystique)JANUARY 25, 2001Well, our dear kitty – the sixteen-year-old perfect master – is gone. It was as good as it could be. He spent the last night with us. First he dragged himself into the living room and we lifted him onto the couch and he...