by Clea | Nov 23, 2021 | Hold Me Down
I know Thanksgiving is coming up, but I’d love to use this #ThankfulTuesday to send out a whole-HEARTed love song to the amazing #bookstagram community.đAll authors fear being alone – and it is the greatest feeling in the world when, instead,...
by Clea | Nov 22, 2021 | CrimeSpree, Hold Me Down
“Simonâs tour of the Boston music scene will make readers wish âHold Me Downâ included a link to iTunes.” â Oline Cogdill, South Florida Sun Sentinel Clea Simon Blame Oline. She was the first reviewer to suggest that HOLD ME DOWN should have a playlist,...
by Clea | Nov 19, 2021 | Hold Me Down, online event
Caroline Leavitt is not only an astute critic and a crafter of glorious prose (check out her With or Without You), she’s also a dear friend. So when the two of us got talking in this Harvard Book Store online event, the official launch of my new Hold Me Down, we...
by Clea | Nov 16, 2021 | CrimeSpree, Hold Me Down
For me, the question has never been why write about crime but, rather, which crime of many to focus onâŚ. You see, there was the serial killer on my high school paper, the mugger in my apartment building, and, well, I explain it all here in CrimeSpree Magazine:...
by Clea | Nov 15, 2021 | online event, Writers on Writing
I am thrilled to be speaking to the Tewksbury Library’s ongoing interactive Zoom writing group. I’m going to be talk a little about using the arts and music scenes as a setting, but then we’ll be open for questions about everything from plotting to...
